Let's Try This Again - Austin, PA Traditional Geocache

This cache has been archived.

Arch_Stanton: I've had direct confirmation (thanks again Olf) that my cache is no longer where it should be, so I'm archiving this listing for the time being.

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Hidden : 8/13/2003
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
4 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


A year ago I placed a cache in the ruins of a paper mill in Austin, PA, just below the remnants of the infamous dam (See (visit link) for details of the historical events surrounding Austin Pennsylvania). I hosed up the coordinates, and directed a couple of cache hunters into the nearby creek.

So, finding some time on my hands this summer, I took a trip back to Austin. Instead of moving the cache (I really like my hiding spot…fiendishly clever, imho), I simply reread the coordinates. I’m confident that a year of practice has honed my GPS skills to a keen edge.

So confident, in fact, that I took a couple snapshots of the approximate location of the cache, should additional assistance be necessary for finding it (it might). You’ll see them below as well as a few other shots of the ruins just to show you what a way cool place to explore this is.

Way cool, and potentially dangerous. There are innumerable leg-cracking pitfalls, holes into flooded subterranean chambers, crumbling concrete staircases and catwalks, falling masonry, huge chunks of cement dangling precariously on rusty steel supports and last but certainly not least, a gigantic tree-dwarfing tower very obviously designed and constructed long before the advent of OSHA. Keep your wits about you and you should be fine, but leave the kiddies in the van for this one, and consider yourself warned.

Because of the challenging nature of this cache, I’ve stocked it with what I consider to be a generally above average collection of cache stuff including (but not limited to, of course) several music/software cds, a solar calculator, a language teaching cassette set (German), and some other nifty things. Sign the book please, if you find it.

Anyway, be careful, and have fun.

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