4WD & Sport Utility Geostash - What Started it All Traditional Cache
4WD & Sport Utility Geostash - What Started it All
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The cache was originally about twice as far up the trail, but due to some extremists, we had to move it further down the trail. Enjoy the short hike.
Back in 2007 there was an ongoing contest by the off-road magazine 4WD and Sport Utility called a geostash. License plate markers were hidden each month with an off-road themed sponsored prize and the coordinates were hidden throughout the magazine.
In 2007, one of them was hidden in the Wellsvilles. We really wanted to find the marker first, so after some quick online research, I left work in my leather-bottomed shoes, white long sleeve shirt and tie, to pick up my GPSr and head up to the mountains.
The actual hike in was not too bad, but since it was in July, I was sweating like a pig by the time I reached the general location of the marker. I ventured off-trail and searched high and low for about two hours with no luck. Tired and filthy, I realized that I would need more time and had to get back to work.
Two things happened later that evening. First, someone else posted that they had retrieved the marker. Second, I realized with help that my GPSr had been switched from the defautl WGS 84 coordinates to the older NAD 27 CONUS system, causing me to be off in my search by over 1/4 mile.
Although unsuccessful at retrieving the marker due to some mixed up settings on my GPSr, we realized how much fun this activity was. We searched online for other contests with similar features and that is how we came across geocaching.com.
So in commemoration of that wayward trek, we placed this cache in the same location that we searched for the old geostash and we even kept the GPSr on the proper coordinate system also. Hopefully you all will have better luck at finding this cache than we did with the original marker.
The road is closed from November 15 until the spring thaw, roughly Memorial Day Weekend. Contact the Logan Ranger District to see if the area is open before you try heading up.
Additional Hints
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Whfg bss gur genvy, uvqqra oruvaq n pyhzc bs gerrf.
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