Here's the story, and please feel free to regale me with a story of your own should you wish to share!
For a few years, back in New England it became tradition for my buddy Genegene and I to host a winter campout geocaching event in January in some rediculously remote, bonechilling, snowpacked peak somewhere in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts. 2 years ago we held this event in Taconic State Park on Alander Mountain. There, 4 brave souls(BriGuyNY being one of them) hiked up the mountain trail in deep snow and set up camp in the middle of the wilderness to test how idiotic...ahem...I mean brave and manly we were. We pitched tents and used white gas....ahem, I mean we rubbed sticks together to start fire and then we would get in our tents, pretend to snore while in our heads we begged God to let the -10 degree night be over...haha, I swear it was fun, really!
Anyhow, the next morning we were hosting an event for those who weren't crazy enough to camp. They were just going to snowshoe to our campsite and from there, as a larger group, we would hike the additional 3 miles to the summit of Alander Mountain. Well, you might imagine that in the morning we were pretty frosty. Even with the fire going -6 degree on the side of a mountain is pretty dang cold. So while we waited for the hikers to make their way from the base we decided to keep warm by throwing axes into a log...the first one to get it to stick gets a cache named after them. So with frost bitten fingers we threw and threw and threw that hatchet at that log for what seemed like hours, but stick it wouldn't. The participants were ready to walk away when...the impossible happened. I don't think I need to say here who won.
I was so distraught from losing that I wanted sweet revenge...I decided to wait to publish a cache in his honor until it was a like a tantalizing carrot dangling just 700 miles beyond his reach! I couldn't think of a more fitting tribute for a world class geocacher and axe thrower! So here you go Brian...here's your dang cache! I wonder if you'll be FTF? By the way....I want a rematch and I hear winter camping ins't quite as harsh here in North Carolina! I also dedicate this cache to one of the finest geocachers in all of Massachustts, Genegene...without whom I would have never frozen my butt off camping in January. Thanks
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