Around Tucson of late, there seems to be a craze for placing caches in high locations -- way up out of reach on a street sign or up in a tree or on top of a power transformer box -- so one has to have a stepstool or one of those reaching tools to have any hope of retrieving them. (Since I do a lot of my caching on a motor scooter, carrying along such things is not really possible.) Is this happening everywhere, or is it just a Sonoran desert thing? I find it a bit annoying, frankly, because a
As noted in the TOTT thread, something like this can be very helpful in the event a 'tall' cache is planned, or just encountered. Granted, it's not going to be very much fun on a bicycle, but it's VERY compact if driving, all thing considered. The come in a couple of sizes, but the 10' version works for most things, and collapses down to 31 inches for storage in the cachemobile. They usually run about 20 pounds or a little more.