acronym...what is PSC?

[+gginnj]

ok. hint says : It's not a PSC

 

https://coord.info/GC41Q8K

 

So what's a PSC - can't figure that one out. - anything to do with shrubs?

 

Thanks

GG

[+niraD]

My guess is that it's something local, a style that is common at a place called "PSC", or a style that is common at a place called PS (thus, a PS cache), or a style that is associated with a person with the initials PSC or PS, or something like that.

 

Have you asked the owner of the cache what "PSC" means?

[+gginnj]

3 minutes ago, niraD said:

My guess is that it's something local, a style that is common at a place called "PSC", or a style that is common at a place called PS (thus, a PS cache), or a style that is associated with a person with the initials PSC or PS, or something like that.

 

Have you asked the owner of the cache what "PSC" means?

 

haven't checked with the owner yet - figured I'd see if it was a standard well known first....

[+kunarion]

15 minutes ago, gginnj said:

 

haven't checked with the owner yet - figured I'd see if it was a standard well known first....

 

The satellite view seems to narrow it down.  The Cache Owner has "not much of a hint" for a hint.  Look at the logs and not only does someone suggest a better hint (I'm no sure what's better about it but whatever), people also tell where the cache is.  And there's a picture of it (pill bottle may have changed since then).  And it's in a tough place to hunt and put it back unseen.  And a number of people couldn't find it. All this for a 2-star difficulty.  What a deal.

[+wmpastor]

53 minutes ago, kunarion said:

 

... And there's a picture of it (pill bottle may have changed since then).  ...

 

Could be a typo.  May mean "not PBC." Meaning "not pill bottle container."

 

Plausible since it may have originally been a PBC, and is no longer.

[+gginnj]

1 hour ago, kunarion said:

 

The satellite view seems to narrow it down.  The Cache Owner has "not much of a hint" for a hint.  Look at the logs and not only does someone suggest a better hint (I'm no sure what's better about it but whatever), people also tell where the cache is.  And there's a picture of it (pill bottle may have changed since then).  And it's in a tough place to hunt and put it back unseen.  And a number of people couldn't find it. All this for a 2-star difficulty.  What a deal.

 

the location was at closing, so the traffic wasn't too bad. we checked the lpc's - nope. a couple tree's , did look in the bushes, but couldn't get too intense, and there were people parked in the area.  I saw the post about the bush - also saw a tree that had a perfect cutout for a pill bottle - which was empty - and a branch near by - thinking maybe the branch fell, and landscapers trashed the cache? guess I'll find out when the CO replies.... Someone else thought maybe PSC could be pole skirt cache??

[+Viajero Perdido]

I came up with a whole bunch of comic meanings of PSC - because it's certainly not meaningful to me as-is - but deleted them as being, oh, somewhat derogatory.

 

To save the CO a tiny bit of typing, look at all the typing it's caused.

[+kunarion]

39 minutes ago, wmpastor said:

 

Could be a typo.  May mean "not PBC." Meaning "not pill bottle container."

 

Plausible since it may have originally been a PBC, and is no longer.

 

In that case, while the cache description says "You're looking for a camo'd pill bottle", the hint is the correction to the cache description.  And according to a finder, a bad hint.  Almost 200 finds, and just look at all the Favorite points.  This cache sure does seem super appealing.  It's a shame I can't go hunt it.

 

 

Edited October 7, 2018 by kunarion

[+cerberus1]

One log says "Looked under every lite post. Nothing".  Next log (with an OM) says "who said anything about a lamp post?".

 - Not a Post Skirt Cache ?

[+CachedIronSkillet]

https://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/pubs/abs/5952

 

 

[+Max and 99]

Is that spam or an accidental wrong link?

[+niraD]

5 minutes ago, Schirf said:

https://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/pubs/abs/5952

1 minute ago, Max and 99 said:

Is that spam or an accidental wrong link?

Neither. It was a guess and what PSC might mean: Population Studies Center

[+Max and 99]

5 minutes ago, niraD said:

Neither. It was a guess and what PSC might mean: Population Studies Center

LOL. That went right over my head!

[+kunarion]

OP found the cache already, so I guess now they know what "PSC" isn't.

[+CachedIronSkillet]

On 10/8/2018 at 1:07 AM, niraD said:

Neither. It was a guess and what PSC might mean: Population Studies Center

And notice the name of the cache and the subject of the article?

Cache: Ah-mish you a lot

Article: "Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrification, Appliance Diffusion, and the Amish"

 

[+J Grouchy]

Go to street view, you see a light post nearby.  A close examination of the image reveals where the cache is most likely hidden....

File this under the unintended consequences of hiding a cache in manicured shrubbery...

 

 

Edited October 15, 2018 by J Grouchy