To those suggesting finding a cache by setting a fire....

[claypigeon58]

This is too weird. A few days ago I posted about how I accidentally wrecked a cache and some people jokingly suggested that difficult caches are best found by setting a fire, etc. etc. Wouldn't you know that's exactly what happened to a local cache I went looking for today. It's in a grassland restoration area, and this past week there was a controlled burn of the area that covered a good several hundred acres. I knew there was a cache in the area, so I checked it out today and sure enough it was in the burn area. All that was left was the ammo box full of ashes and turned orange by the heat. There were smoldering trees all around and even some glowing stumps just feet from the cache. For any local Chicago cachers, the cache was Best Cache by a Dam Site. I obviously logged that this cache should be archived.

[+DustyJacket]

Kind of tough to sign the log.

 

DustyJacket

Not all those that wander are lost. But in my case...

[+wimseyguy]

Maybe I should go back to my original sig line

" Be careful what you wish for."

 

These changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes;

Nothing remains quite the same.

Through all of the islands and all of the highlands,

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane

[+pdxmarathonman]

So now you're setting fires to clear out the grass? What next? You didn't happen to do any caching in Southern Oregon last summer did you?

 

Let's keep a close eye on claypigeon58

[+DeerChaser & Company]

Or here in Florida, this one was mine, now up in smoke. Where do you think I got the idea huh?

 

Rino 110

MeriGreen 128

[+RichardMoore]

Uh-oh. Should I be figuring out my alibi?

 

Or,

 

Was this barbecue posted as an event cache?

 

Or,

 

Forget tupperware and ammo cans. The ideal cache container is one of those fireproof document storage boxes.

 

Or,

 

I've heard of people getting flamed in the forums, but I thought it was a figure of speech.

 

RichardMoore

 

www.geocities.com/richardsrunaway

[+Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking]

Find a cache by starting a fire? Are you people nuts? (Just kidding, I do not actuall believe anyone would do that.) Anybody remember a small fire called the Rodeo-Chediski fire here in Arizona? Part of that megafire was started by someone I will euphemistically call a person who started a fire to attract attention when she got lost, even though our fire danger was so high that our forests were all closed. FYI caches in that fire did not survive. Please play safe in the wild, especially in Arizona.

 

Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes

On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so:

"Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges --

"Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!"

 

Rudyard Kipling , The Explorer 1898

[Northern-Lights]

....took nothing.....left 2000 acres of ashes.......

 

Puts a new meaning on things eh.....

 

Earth First!!! We'll cache the other planets later!!

[+Markwell]

Do me a favor claypigeon - you don't need to go hunting any of my caches real soon. OK?

 

Markwell

Chicago Geocaching

[+mornin'glory]

hey claypigeon58:

 

if you're going on vacation this year PLEASE stay away from the ozarks!

 

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if you cache it, they will come.

[+Roadster]

quote:

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Originally posted by tmac:

hey claypigeon58:

 

if you're going on vacation this year PLEASE stay away from the ozarks!

 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ozmtngeocachers/join

if you cache it, they will come.

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Being from the Ozarks, I second that emotion!

 

Does anyone have some cache on them?