WildwoodBob

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My 9 year old son and I just did an 8 1/2 mile hike, with 750 feet of elevation in the first 1 1/2 miles. We took lots of breaks and it took longer than if I was solo, but the time in the mountains with my son was well worth it!

I had a TB go missing in Jan 2003, and later in 2003 I grabbed him and placed him in the Travel Bug Grave Yard. Just this month he was found again. The finder grabbed him from the TB Graveyard and placed him in a new cache. Now there is 5000 additional miles that the TB didn't travel. If I delete the log for my "Grab" and also the log for the new finder's "Grab", will that reset the mileage?

I don't mind waiting at all! I look forward to it. Have a great day! Bob

Hello! I am looking for someone to help with the "What's In A Name" cache http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=12627. My caching nickname is WildwoodBob, which converts to 94 53.9663. Half the 94 and I have a coordinate of 47 53.9663. So, I am looking for someone to take a photo somewhere along 47 53.9663 W (any South coordinate). We will both be able to log the cache. Thanks in advance! WildwoodBob - Pennsylvania, USA

quote:Originally posted by survey tech:Yes, it would probably still be directly over the point. I have found several points over the years with tower remains around them, especially in the mountains and the desert. Check out the pictorial gallery of USC&GS history on the NOAA website, they have some pictures of both the early wooden towers and the later metal ones. Cool site. If anything is left of a 30 foot tower after 68 years, I should be able to find it! I did find some old logs laying on the ground, forming a triangle. Not sure if this could be leftovers or not. I didn't have any digging utensils along, and the dirt inside the triangle was pretty deep.

A benchmark that was last recovered in 1934 has this note: "THERE IS A 30-FOOT WOODEN SIGNAL HERE WHICH WILL BE LEFT STANDING AS IT WILL ENDURE WEATHER AND BE USEFUL FOR FUTURE SURVEYS." The area has changed significantly since 1934. The directions to the location don't exist, etc. The only reference point is the "3rd knoll on the ridge." The coordinates lead to a flat area, near a few knolls, but hard to tell what they meant as the 3rd knoll, as the trail used no longer exists. The area is heavily overgrown with mature trees and thick underbrush, so finding the remains of this tower may be my only clue. I have 3 questions. First, what would this signal tower have been made from? Cut trees? What shape might it have been in? And would the engineers have built it over the station mark? Thanks in advance for any assistance.

I decided to rethink my strategy and got out the old drafting eqipment. I did a to-scale drawing using the BM description and went back. I also used a real compass once I found the boulder with a drill-hole in it. I was real close last time, but this time I got it! The URL is BMKW3120 I did set my GPS on the benchmark and let it set for a while. When I compared the coordinates from my GPS to what is posted for the BM, it was amazingly accurate. N 40 21.985 W 76 54.531 from the benchmark page, N 40 21.986 W 76 54.530 from my GPS.

quote:Originally posted by Waterboy With Wife (www):4. This cache and the graffiti may be in the watershed that supplies water to Harrisburg, PA. If someone knows more about this I would appreciate it. 5. Close, but no cigar. You need to go a bit east to be in the watershed.

quote:Originally posted by Waterboy With Wife (www):It is important to note that this graffiti was written by a premier geocacher. How do you know the cache owner created graffiti just to place a cache? While I have never met the cache, I have done a number of their caches and they have alwasy been excellent caches and in good taste. Perhaps an email to the owner asking for clarification may have been in order before accusing someone of a criminal act. Did you ever think that the marking isn't 911? The location of the cache is PA State Game Lands #211. Maybe the Game Warden placed it there for some unknown reason. Just as plausible as accusing the cacher of becoming a criminal just to place a cache.

quote:Originally posted by russotto:Well, for the tree, there's always a chain saw... russotto, I see you are in PA. If you have the chain saw, do you want to go along Seriously, I thought about that, but the hike to the location is quite a steep climb and I just wasn't into carrying a chain saw. The plan is to have a few helpers, use a smaller downed tree as a lever and see if we can roll the big one away.

quote:Originally posted by russotto:Well, for the tree, there's always a chain saw... russotto, I see you are in PA. If you have the chain saw, do you want to go along Seriously, I thought about that, but the hike to the location is quite a steep climb and I just wasn't into carrying a chain saw. The plan is to have a few helpers, use a smaller downed tree as a lever and see if we can roll the big one away.

is close by. Let me know if I can help.

For the input. Think I will see if I can draft a few helpers and go back and have at it!

I found a very remote benchmark location this AM. I found the original descriptions of markers, like a boulder with a hole drilled in it (2 of those), ash trees with painted markers, but the ash tree with the fork in it has fallen over and rests on top of where the marker most likely is. All of the measurements from found reference points indicate as such. The tree is about 24" in diameter and I doubt if I could move it. Any ideas???

quote:Originally posted by leatherman:I carry a Glock 27, very nice size, every where. Nice size and weight. I carry it in a waist pack mostly, or a side compartment in my hiking day pack. _God bless the Second Amendment>_ Ditto.