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I was out hunting cache locations and found one hibernating or so i thought in a 3 foot water dranage pipe that i think is always dry. I went to look in as a possable cache location and there it was just looking at me from 15 feet away in its nest of dirt and leaves in the pipe with it. I did get a good pic with a flash but the camera is new and i dont know how to post them yet.

If the 6 inches of water on the floor of the High Ledge mine(adit enterance) is still frozen as it has been we can get all the way in to the main shaft. There is a cache there(outside of the mine) and another close by. We can meet at the morris cannal park patking lot. Time?

I have been crawling around the woods a lot looking for interesting hide location and the month of September was almost tick free but in the last couple of weeks i have seen more then normal!!! Then again it coul'd be the locations i was in? treequest

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One of Helmut's and his girls' cache was the first I did with my children about two years ago and a friendship was formed. After locating his house, I just stopped in out of the blue and his wife, Liz, said she had just sold him for 1 dollar! He came out of the shed, and we talked for some to me about caching. I studied his caches and how others enjoyed them so I began to hide them with his help at first and soon formed my own style. We got together often and looked for each other on Rt 80 as we drove home from work. We started caching together when we could and talked about placing a cache or two together up behind his new house. Liz and I planned his 1000th cache find party, and I loved the surprise he got at his party. Helmut found himself selling two houses and having a new one built, that took a lot of his time and energy. I stopped in and called on his cell phone just to bug him and get him to laugh and told him "Liz told me to get you out of the house" so we did go caching here and there. It's amazing how many times I had to remind him to get his walking stick! He would look at me and just say "I'm out of control" and hopefully let out one of his grand laughs. I will miss Helmut and way we talked about life in the woods. We both shared our thoughts and adventures - like the time he took Liz caching and also losing his cell phone on the trail. The funeral was touching today, and the moment when Liz stretched out her hand just to touch his coffin as it passed by put a picture in my mind of 1000 words. I will miss Helmut, his words and that grand laugh will travel with me as I cache and hike the highlands of NJ. Loved you like my brother... Thadd-Treequest

Recently i placed a cache in a old hand dug well in the woods.The container is a pvc pipe about 6 inches long with a glued cap at one end and the other was a rubber boot cap that you can tighten up with a screwdriver to make water tight.The water leval ia about 2 feet below the rock rim.The cache sits under the water with leaves and small sticks to keep it from floating up as well as keeping it out of site.I attached a line with a screwdriver to oped and close the cache.Most of the cachers had no idia where it was and the hint was a good one.I had lots of fun with this one.It is important that one cant fall in the well and get hurt or worse.It also isnt deep,about 4 feet . Treequest