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quote:Originally posted by Irvingdog: N1KV, tree huggers think there a brigades of us cachers, shovel in hand, looking to dig up the forest floor in search of this treasure. There is the arguement to be made that dis-allowing digging within a piece of public land, and leaving something behind is a good idea. Heck,what's so creative about burying something, anyhow? http://www.hunting-pictures.com/members/Irvingdog/boo2.jpg G [This message was edited by Irvingdog on April 05, 2002 at 01:32 PM.] [This message was edited by Irvingdog on April 05, 2002 at 01:34 PM.] I completely agree with you - a cache must be visible - this sport would quickly earn a deservedly bad rep if there were folks entering the woods intent on digging up buried treasure. But this one instance of burial was, in my opinion, very clever and done in an "environmentally sensitive" manner. Digging up a patch of alpine zone topsoil in the mountains - bad! Digging one small hole 50 yards off a woods trail to conceal *most* of a cache - seems to make as much sense as tucking an ammo box under a rock. But under no circumstances would I recommend situating a cache such that people have to dig for it. What a mess that would make!!!

quote:Originally posted by Irvingdog: N1KV, tree huggers think there a brigades of us cachers, shovel in hand, looking to dig up the forest floor in search of this treasure. There is the arguement to be made that dis-allowing digging within a piece of public land, and leaving something behind is a good idea. Heck,what's so creative about burying something, anyhow? http://www.hunting-pictures.com/members/Irvingdog/boo2.jpg G [This message was edited by Irvingdog on April 05, 2002 at 01:32 PM.] [This message was edited by Irvingdog on April 05, 2002 at 01:34 PM.] I completely agree with you - a cache must be visible - this sport would quickly earn a deservedly bad rep if there were folks entering the woods intent on digging up buried treasure. But this one instance of burial was, in my opinion, very clever and done in an "environmentally sensitive" manner. Digging up a patch of alpine zone topsoil in the mountains - bad! Digging one small hole 50 yards off a woods trail to conceal *most* of a cache - seems to make as much sense as tucking an ammo box under a rock. But under no circumstances would I recommend situating a cache such that people have to dig for it. What a mess that would make!!!

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I found a cache here in CT that used PVC pipe (Heublein Tower) - a 3 or 4 inch diameter, 1 and 1/2 foot long pipe section buried vertically, with only the clean out showing above ground. The screw-on clean out had a metal rod inserted through the square end, forming a "+", which acted as a lever for more unscrewing leverage. It looked nearly impossible to walk off with the cache without a shovel, everything inside was dry, there was tons of room for trinkets. No scary pipe bomb, and what's the big deal with burying things anyway, as long as part of it's above ground??