UP(s) stands for?

[+Team Pixos]

Wondering if UP(s) stands for something in particular?

 

Other than the obvious man in brown truck.

Searched and couldn't find it.

[+HotDiggityDogs]

Are you seeing it in a particular context here on the site, in logs or cache descriptions?

[+Team Pixos]

Cache descriptions mentioning ammo cans

 

Then the hint is UP(s)

 

It was for 4 or 5 different caches for an event I'm attending.

[+John in Valley Forge]

Under Pile (of Sticks).

Usual Place(s)

[+Team Pixos]

Thanks; gives me ideas for tomorrow!

[Keystone]

An Unusual Pile of Sticks is often a dead giveaway for a large or regular size container in the woods. If you're hiding a cache, placing eight sticks on top of your ammo box, each three feet long, is as good as a neon sign for attracting muggles and making for a one-star difficulty hunt. Sticks don't fall off of trees into parallel stacks. It may be better to rely on container camouflage, or a mixture of small sticks, rocks and leaves that are more likely to look like what's ordinarily found at the base of a tree or stump.

[+sword fern]

An Unusual Pile of Sticks is often a dead giveaway for a large or regular size container in the woods. If you're hiding a cache, placing eight sticks on top of your ammo box, each three feet long, is as good as a neon sign for attracting muggles and making for a one-star difficulty hunt. Sticks don't fall off of trees into parallel stacks. It may be better to rely on container camouflage, or a mixture of small sticks, rocks and leaves that are more likely to look like what's ordinarily found at the base of a tree or stump.

 

One thing to add:

 

if the tree is off trail, or the sticks are behind the tree in a non visible position, it may work.

[+Gitchee-Gummee]

Methinks the UP is correct as others put it: Unusual or unusual (your choice there) Pile. The (s) probably means sticks/stones/stuff -- is why the "s" is accompanied by parentheses.

 

Mostly, cachers refer to these items as "beacons", because of the way Keystone described their positioning. Another not-so-good one, is using birch bark when the nearest birch tree is 200+ yards away! Or perhaps the always conspicuous pile of large stones in the middle of a moss carpeted forest, etc.

[+SmallsKC]

Uninterrupted Power Supply? Sorry, first thing that came to mind. I'm just a geeky girl I guess!

[+Mr. Wilson & a Mt. Goat]

UPS could mean many things, such as Ultraviolet Photoemisson Spectroscopy, Universal Politician's Suit, or Units Per Second.

 

But I think the real answer is given by Keystone.

[+A & J Tooling]

'Usual place' is the answer you're looking for.

[+Team Pixos]

They all turned out to be ammo cans covered by piles of sticks and branches. Really stood out as not a natural formation.

 

Thanks so much.

[+SmallsKC]

Uninterrupted Power Supply? Sorry, first thing that came to mind. I'm just a geeky girl I guess!

That's what i think too .

 

What??? That I am a geeky girl? LOL! :lol: