What is This? Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

gbmcache: Yep, the cache is on private property and shall be archived accordingly. Thank You to the 30 cachers who tromped through the woods to find and log the cache. I have retrieved the cache container which was in pretty good shape considering its age.

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Hidden : 1/19/2010
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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1. What is this thing? 2. What was its original purpose? 3. Why is it still in place?

Walking along one of the trails of the McAlpine Creek Greenway this Winter with the trees bare of foliage I spied a cone thingy on a pole. Hay, let's put an easy cache here. The only effort will be the hike thereto, a pleasant trek however.

Well, that is how my narrative started with the cache hiding process. After submitting the cache for publication I learned that the coordinates were too close to one waypoint of a creative multi-cache. If you have pursued this golden cache you will know whereof I write. So, the multistage route is what we will have to take.

The coordinates for the cache are located at the listed coordinates. In addition to the trail hike you will have already taken, you will now have to make a short hike through the woods

But oops!! we still did not have a good cache placement. The first stage, since it was a container that listed the coordinates to the final cache, was still illegal. An historic marker or park signage from which one could compute the coordinates for the next stage would have been okay. So now back to the traditional cache scheme. But now the final stage of the multi-cache will be merely the placement of a traditional cache.

So, because I am still desirous of you seeing what caught my eye and started this process I am including it as a waypoint marked at the bottom of the page. You do not have to visit or even notice the cone thingy on a pole to find and log the cache.

I hope this tale will have been a cautionary one for all geocachers who hope to hide a cache: There is no deviating from the 528 foot rule of separation between cache containers whether they be the final or waypoints to the final.

The answer so far to the original questions: 1. I don't know. 2. I don't know. 3.To give an excuse to hide a cache. My guess is that it has something to do with birds.

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