Help! Mt. Mitchell Cache found, but not online.

[BassMasterCHS]

Hey, I was visiting Mt. Mitchell in NC while on vacation, and just happened to find a cache without a GPS. So I don't know its name or coordinates. It was on the summit of the mountain.

 

Signed it "BassMasterCHS" and I can't remember the exact date. Can someone help me find it online so I can log the visit? Thanks!

[+akk32]

If You know the owner i can help

[BassMasterCHS]

If You know the owner i can help

 

I don't

[+akk32]

If You know the owner i can help

 

I don't

 

What is the Zip code of mt. mitchel and do you remember any of the cachers befor you logged it

[BassMasterCHS]

If You know the owner i can help

 

I don't

 

What is the Zip code of mt. mitchel and do you remember any of the cachers befor you logged it

It's the tallest peak east of the Mississippi.. On the Blue Ridge Parkway. I can't remember any names either, it was such a rush being up there and finding it. Only two caches are listed there, but they are both virtual. :/

[+akk32]

Did You Run into it are were you looking for it

 

And Do You Have A year

 

and was it a letterbox?

[BassMasterCHS]

Did You Run into it are were you looking for it

 

And Do You Have A year

 

and was it a letterbox?

Yeah I ran into , I didn't have a GPS with me at the time. It was just last week, and it was in medium sized red wooden box.

[+akk32]

There is a earth cache

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...=y&decrypt=

[BassMasterCHS]

There is a earth cache

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...=y&decrypt=

Yes but that's a virtual cache, right? This was an actual physical box.

[+akk32]

Are You Sure it wasnt a letterbox

 

What Area Of The Mountian

[+akk32]

A Earth Cache is a Virtual

[+akk32]

I Think this is it

 

The Hint is Tree Red

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...53-3e1d88e9deeb

[knowschad]

I Think this is it

 

The Hint is Tree Red

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...53-3e1d88e9deeb

Ozguff is still an active cacher... OP should email him with the description before logging. Could have been a summit cache, a letterbox, or a cache from one of the "other" cache listing sites. The name of the cache does fit the name for a red wooden box, though.

[+akk32]

I Think this is it

 

The Hint is Tree Red

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...53-3e1d88e9deeb

Ozguff is still an active cacher... OP should email him with the description before logging. Could have been a summit cache, a letterbox, or a cache from one of the "other" cache listing sites. The name of the cache does fit the name for a red wooden box, though.

 

The Hint is

Tree

 

Red

 

Sounds like a red wooden box

 

I Dont know why it wasnt showing

[+akk32]

I Think this is it

 

The Hint is Tree Red

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...53-3e1d88e9deeb

Ozguff is still an active cacher... OP should email him with the description before logging. Could have been a summit cache, a letterbox, or a cache from one of the "other" cache listing sites. The name of the cache does fit the name for a red wooden box, though.

 

The Hint is

Tree

 

Red

 

Sounds like a red wooden box

 

I Dont know why it wasnt showing

 

I Think It Was A letterbox or something else

[+Harry Dolphin]

The cache mentioned is not on top of Mount Mtchell. Mount Mitchell is five miles away! I suspect that you found a peak register. Not loggable here.

[+akk32]

The cache mentioned is not on top of Mount Mtchell. Mount Mitchell is five miles away! I suspect that you found a peak register. Not loggable here.

 

Probably a letterbox

[+Too Tall John]

The cache mentioned is not on top of Mount Mtchell. Mount Mitchell is five miles away! I suspect that you found a peak register. Not loggable here.

Probably a letterbox

Or maybe it's a peak register.

[+akk32]

The cache mentioned is not on top of Mount Mtchell. Mount Mitchell is five miles away! I suspect that you found a peak register. Not loggable here.

Probably a letterbox

Or maybe it's a peak register.

 

It Probably is a peak register

 

[<img src="http://i965.photobucket.com/albums/ae136/eastalabamacacehers/peakregister.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>]

Edited July 16, 2010 by akk32

[BassMasterCHS]

But that's the weird thing, it had the sheet in there saying you've found a geocache and telling you about the hobby. Had various things to take there too like a normal cache. The log to sign was rolled up in a medicine bottle. I'll try to post a pic of it here.

 

Edited July 16, 2010 by BassMasterCHS

[+akk32]

But that's the weird thing, it had the sheet in there saying you've found a geocache and telling you about the hobby. Had various things to take there too like a normal cache. The log to sign was rolled up in a medicine bottle. I'll try to post a pic of it here.

ok

 

it may be a archived cache

[+akk32]

But that's the weird thing, it had the sheet in there saying you've found a geocache and telling you about the hobby. Had various things to take there too like a normal cache. The log to sign was rolled up in a medicine bottle. I'll try to post a pic of it here.

 

That Is A Geocache For Sure

[+Isonzo Karst]

Had the log been signed?

 

I'm wondering if you found a cache that someone left, and then it never got published, possibly a vacation cache, or a cache where the cache owner failed to get permission from land management, and then never picked up the box.

[+Team Cotati]

It's a mysterious red box.

[+NYPaddleCacher]

There is a earth cache

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...=y&decrypt=

Yes but that's a virtual cache, right? This was an actual physical box.

 

Hmm. If there are only virtual caches there maybe there's a reason for that. Are physical caches *allowed* on Mt. Mitchell? It may be a cache that someone placed, assuming that it was published, then the local reviewer informed them of a policy by the land manager that didn't allow physical caches ane the person that placed it there never removed the litter. Were there any other logs in the log book?

[+atmospherium]

Perhaps it contains the mortal remains of Betty Powell.

 

Seriously, it's certainly an abandoned not-approved cache, or a cache not yet submitted or published.

 

I'm more curious about Betty Powell than I am about the Mysterious Red Box.

[+Chokecherry]

I had a brief moment of imagineing someone "cleaning"out the cache box and dumping all the "dirt" a muggle must have put in there and doing a little volunteer maintenance and adding a log to the cache. Then hiking home grumbling about how someone could leave the cache in such a state of disrepair. But my first thought was that the box looks a little urnish.

[+Too Tall John]

I had a brief moment of imagineing someone "cleaning"out the cache box and dumping all the "dirt" a muggle must have put in there and doing a little volunteer maintenance and adding a log to the cache. Then hiking home grumbling about how someone could leave the cache in such a state of disrepair. But my first thought was that the box looks a little urnish.

Yep, looks like the boxes I've seen at funerals where someone was cremated. . .

 

My image of the events that transpired are a little different:

 

Betty Powell was a geocacher. After she died, her family and friends spread her remains from the top of a mountain, as she requested. (Hopefully, they checked prevailing winds before releasing Betty to her final resting place.) With the empty box, they decided to hide a geocache to honor Betty. Unfortunately, the local reviewer wouldn't publish the cache because he considered the warnings the cache page had about the dangers of hunting caches on top of mountains in a thunderstorm (how Betty died) an agenda.

 

Now, the box sits, forgotten and alone.

[knowschad]

A Google search for ["Mt. Mitchell" "Betty Powell"] turns up a few hits:

 

The first is a Jeep forum post by our OP. The next to are from one of those sites that wants you to subscribe to see. The last is a .pdf that failed to open for me. But they do reference both the peak, and Betty Powell.

[+wimseyguy]

If you were on Mt. Mitchell and found a cache it will probably never be published at geocaching.com.

Mt. Mitchell is an NC State Park, and they have a very restrictive policy against cache placements.

 

TTJ is partly right. NYpaddler is more right.

[+roziecakes]

I don't think it's a peak register. All of the peak registers that I have seen are in PVC pipes with endcaps on them. (of course that's been all of three... so I don't have the widest range of experience, but it's a thought).

[BassMasterCHS]

The log that I signed was definitely used, I believe I was on the last page.

[knowschad]

I don't think it's a peak register. All of the peak registers that I have seen are in PVC pipes with endcaps on them. (of course that's been all of three... so I don't have the widest range of experience, but it's a thought).

There are other kinds:

[+Chokecherry]

I had a brief moment of imagineing someone "cleaning"out the cache box and dumping all the "dirt" a muggle must have put in there and doing a little volunteer maintenance and adding a log to the cache. Then hiking home grumbling about how someone could leave the cache in such a state of disrepair. But my first thought was that the box looks a little urnish.

Yep, looks like the boxes I've seen at funerals where someone was cremated. . .

 

My image of the events that transpired are a little different:

 

Betty Powell was a geocacher. After she died, her family and friends spread her remains from the top of a mountain, as she requested. (Hopefully, they checked prevailing winds before releasing Betty to her final resting place.) With the empty box, they decided to hide a geocache to honor Betty. Unfortunately, the local reviewer wouldn't publish the cache because he considered the warnings the cache page had about the dangers of hunting caches on top of mountains in a thunderstorm (how Betty died) an agenda.

 

Now, the box sits, forgotten and alone.

 

Ohhhh I like you're theory too. I'm going to have to pass both urn theories by my friend and see which one he thinks it is.

 

But it definitely looks like an urn to me.

[BassMasterCHS]

That the thing though, there were no latches, nails or any signs of a forced opening. It was a cheaply made wooden box painted red.. Sorry to pop the bubbles lol.

[knowschad]

The plate attached to the rock does say, "In Memory", doesn't it? I wonder if I'm onto something here: http://www.tributes.com/show/Betty-Powell-88661012

 

Mrs. Betty Brown Powell

• DIED: June 4, 2010
  
• LOCATION: Stone Mountain, GA
  

 

 

Not all that far from South Carolina, and notice the date.

Edited July 16, 2010 by knowschad

[BassMasterCHS]

The plate attached to the rock does say, "In Memory", doesn't it? I wonder if I'm onto something here: http://www.tributes.com/show/Betty-Powell-88661012

 

<h1>Mrs. Betty Brown Powell

• DIED: June 4, 2010
  
• LOCATION: Stone Mountain, GA
  

• 
  

 

Not all that far from South Carolina, and notice the date.

Lol, but this is in North Carolina about 30 miles north of Asheville. It does make you wonder whether the two objects are related. But I'm pretty sure the log goes back farther than that date if I remember correctly.

[+GrateBear]

Betty Powell was a geocacher. After she died, her family and friends spread her remains from the top of a mountain, as she requested. (Hopefully, they checked prevailing winds before releasing Betty to her final resting place.)

A bit off topic, but that brings to mind the classic scene in The Big Lebowski: