1 strong band built from Amberwood Traditional Cache

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mitmatr: I rode by on the way to work and picked her up; she had a great run.

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Hidden : 2/17/2010
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

A guardrail cache, Flagstaff doesn't have enough of these. Arent they as standard as LPCs?? Its magnetic. What more can I say...BUT THIS:

In traffic engineering, guardrails prevent vehicles from veering off the roadway into oncoming traffic, crashing against solid objects or falling into a ravine. A secondary objective is keeping the vehicle upright while deflected along the guardrail. The problem with this is that a guardrail of the optimum height for a car might not keep a truck from toppling over it, while a motorbike might slip under a higher rail. In most cases guardrails would not be able to withstand the impact of a vehicle just by the strength of the individual posts in the area hit by the vehicle. Instead, the guardrail is effectively one strong band that transfers the force of the vehicle to multiple posts beyond the impact area or into a ground anchor at the end of the guardrail. Newer concrete barriers, while usually strong enough to withstand direct hits by cars, still work on a similar principle in deflecting heavier vehicles such as trucks. Lasty, sometimes they are just there to sit on and enjoy the view while geocaching.
"BIG THANKS to Flag_Mtn_Hkrs for diagram" & FTF

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