Hike4Cache

- one could easily get to 3500' on the Ruckle Creek Trail if they continued up to the Benson Plateau grabbing "The Hanging Meadows" cache along the way!!

I agree with snow. With steps already kicked in it's like climbing stairs and then sliding back down. If you plan to glissade using an ice axe and have no experience, find some relatively steep snow now, tape up the sharp ends and get out there and learn. It's not that difficult to grasp. Remember to use pants you don't care about as you will most likely wear out the seat in them pretty quickly. Something I think more emphasis should be put on is that although the climb of MSH is lightly regarded as a hike, one could still find themselves in whiteout conditions most any time of the year and route finding skills are extremely important. Sometimes a GPS alone does not suffice, especially if you end up having any technical problems.

If you look at the pictures and read the bid description you will see that the dimensions of the lot are 54x47x708 which would require a 42' semi to transport. Being in the logistics business we could arrange for transportation and warehouse storage (Portland area) at a cost of appx $450. Not sure with the current bid of $645 if it would be worth our time but we'll keep an eye on it.

Well, after downloading about about 300 caches into my GPS and PDA of which less than a quarter was on the way in the particular direction we were heading I thought this would be a great idea. We just picked an arbitrary cache and did the search within a certain amount of miles from that and still ended up with way too much to sort through that would have been out of the way. I would think it would be an easy thing to add but the idea doesn't seem to attract much interest.

Would it be possible to add the option (radio buttons) of all caches in a certain direction(s) when creating a PQ? That would be at least closer to a route than every cache each direction within the area specified of a certain cache. I looked around to see if this question has ever been posed and since it sounds like the mapping a route option may take a while I thought this may be an easy alternative for the time being.