Team AZMO

Most of us will be at an event tomorrow for a hike. If you have some co-ordinates I'll see if anyone is headed to the River on Sunday.

One of the State parks contacted me back about their group projects program and they would really like us to do some cedar tree removal from glades where they have invaded. If the primary purpose of the event is the invasive species removal, with the obvious picking up of any trash we do encounter as a secondary aim, is it still a CITO?

We are new to caching, but enjoying it immensely. We like the chaches best that take us someplace we just wouldn't have otherwise ended up going AND that we have a reasonable expectation of finding the cache container to sign the book. That said one thing I'm finding is that i don't like pill bottles and such out in the woods. Trees are hard on my GPS (A Samsung Captivate smart phone), and as I understand it they aren't completely wonderful for regular GPS units either. So I'm looking in a 60-100 foot circle in the woods for a pill bottle that has been painted to look like a part of the tree it's attached to? if i want to test my eyesight I'll visit the doctor, you know? In a more urban, or contained setting, I find the pill bottles quite fun. Just5 yesterday we found one placed within the area of an Artesian spring, and because of the nature of the hide, it was challenging, but it was still limited because we had a boundary to limit the hunt. Later in the day we sought on that was simply in the woods off a gravel road. it was very frustrating after some time and after an hour we simply gave up. I'll probably just bypass caches that mention micros in the woods without mentioning something significant to ground their location. Maybe later I'll learn something that makes me just see these things out there, but for now, frustration isn't much fun. If the area sounds cool, I'll go look at the scenery and skip the hour of frustration.