+Spoo Posted September 14, 2004 Share Posted September 14, 2004 (edited) I was reviewing my records and found that I have recovered three "colors" so far: GREEN (Green Mountain) PINK (Probably short for Pinkham, a common name here abouts) HAZEL (the first name of the woman then owning the property) One I have yet to go look for is on top of a mountain named Old Blue. For some reason though, it is named SCRUB. Anyone else recover some interesting names? Edited September 14, 2004 by Spoo Quote Link to comment
2oldfarts (the rockhounders) Posted September 14, 2004 Share Posted September 14, 2004 Oh Boy, have we found some interesting names... Antelope, Beehive (4), Buckskin, Cactus, Curves, Don, Dot, Dyke, Easy, Fall, DNF-Game-but looked, Highway-RM, Holes, Kanab, Lowery, Len, Lito, Lope, Manson-another DNF, Marble Canyon, Mesa, Mollie's Nipple, Moapa, Mormon Mesa, Naviska, Pant, Pierce, Powell, Promontory, Red, Rose, Ruin (Yes, in Indian ruins on a mesa), Riordan, Sand, Scenic, Seismology, Shinarump, Springs, Telephone, Tie, Vah Ki, Wahweap, Wall, Weather, White, Woody-another DNF and we found a Section '8'. Whew, Thank you for making us remember some really interesting ones! Shirley & John Quote Link to comment
+GEO*Trailblazer 1 Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 Well maybe I should start my story again using benchmarks/caches. Some are logable and some not. BM'S ARE UNDERLINED NOT LINKED. All but 1 MONEY has been recovered by me. In 1492(BM 1492 FRONT YARD BLM) Columbus skinned his rump,on a bump,and sailed the ocean blue. He discovered the New World,at or near Plymouth,(PLYMOUTH NATIONAL MONUMENT) BM LW4604,CACHE GCA651. Now we know the PILGRIMtold the INDIANHow to grow CORN but one day in the FIELD a POLECAT chased em off and they lost the (GOBBLER). for the Thanksgiving meal. Miles Standish our first military leader (MY3979)Fortified the Bay at Plymouth MA. After the New country was founded and the 13 Original Colonies grew,Thomas Jefferson and other Scientists of the day moved the Measuring Meridian the Washington D.C. ,Meridian Mile 0 (HV1846) (9HV1847) to GREENWITCH MERIDIAN. Then the Louisiana Purchase 0f 1803.The Louisiana Purchase Monument (EH2910) AND THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION (these are just being added to the data base NGS) I still do not have enough MONEY NOT RECOVERED YET. to just jump in the (TRUCK) and hunt them all. But as soon as I can get some I will be off to get some more.I got many many more to complete the story and a few more to go after that. So you could say this is the NEVERENDING BENCHMARK STORY. I am suppose to write a story for TODAYS CACHER but have not got the adequite BM's yet. Need more names.NEED MORE MARKS.......................AND MONEY Quote Link to comment
+Colorado Papa Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 (edited) LOST, FOUND and DEAD. Oops, sorry, Spoo. Haven't recovered these, yet. Edited September 15, 2004 by Colorado Papa Quote Link to comment
ArtMan Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 Benchmark hunting is enough to drive you INSANE. For example, HV4675 (INSANE) and HV4674 (INSANE ECC) in Washington, DC - plus local marks DC6382 (INSANE RM 1) AND DC6383 (INSANE RM 2) - all at St. Elizabeth's, the famed D.C. hospital. Enough to make you thirsty? I recommend trying HV7108 (BEER) in Ann Arundel County, MD, which unfortunately was reported destroyed in 1957. ~ArtMan Quote Link to comment
Z15 Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 BUMBLETOWN MIGS 1934 Quote Link to comment
+PFF Posted September 15, 2004 Share Posted September 15, 2004 I've discussed FUNERAL and SNAFU in previous posts, so this time I'll nominate KRISPY. To locate this mark without using a GPS, look for a sign in downtown Raleigh which says, "Hot Donuts Now!" -Paul- Quote Link to comment
+GEO*Trailblazer 1 Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Well we can go up COFFEE CREEK AND DUNK The KRISPY KREMER. Quote Link to comment
mloser Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 I know this came up before, but my cool names are OYES and ONO. ONO is at a small town of the same name, and OYES is a few miles down the road and may be based on the name of a restaurant in Ono named the O' Yes Hotel. I also found Pepsi 2 but have no idea why it is named that. I don't think there is a Pepsi bottling plant nearby and the mark was at a motel. Quote Link to comment
foxtrot_xray Posted September 18, 2004 Share Posted September 18, 2004 The only one interesting one I've come across is 'KENESAW RESET'. It's funny because the Mountain and nearby town are named "Kennesaw". So when I found it and DIDN'T have the PID, It took me FOREVER to find it 'cuz it was misspeld. (Or they ran out of letters and purposefully left out an 'N') Me. Quote Link to comment
2oldfarts (the rockhounders) Posted September 19, 2004 Share Posted September 19, 2004 We found an interesting one yesterday, Power. The disk's name & it's location is what makes this picture so interesting. Quote Link to comment
+GEO*Trailblazer 1 Posted September 19, 2004 Share Posted September 19, 2004 Well now me and TIGGR had the urge to get out and SEYMOUR We thought we would get over being BLUE By hearing PA's fiddle (Little House on the Prarie)played today at the Little House in Mansfield Mo. MANS WAS THAT FUN!!! We got to travel by the 1924 Farmers Exchange HD0277 V 6 We also found a CHISLED SQUARE and found a little PEACE AZ we had fun for the day. I wish I would have had the metal detector and something to dig with maybe I could have found STATION peace Quote Link to comment
foxtrot_xray Posted September 25, 2004 Share Posted September 25, 2004 Funny, I just came across another interesting situation... TWO benchmarks in Colorado, both named LAST: #1, #2. One named LAST CHANCE. All three are nowhere near each other (>100 miles apart). The first LAST is nowhere near anything that shares its name. The second LAST is three miles from a town, named "Last Chance". The LAST CHANCE mark is nowhere near anything else names 'Last' or 'Last Chance'... Me. Quote Link to comment
mikeh420 Posted October 16, 2004 Share Posted October 16, 2004 (edited) An interesting BM name is "Sister Elsie" EW7207, it's on the highest peak within Los Angeles City limits, Mount Lukens. Nearby is cache "Up On Sister Elsie's Antenna Farm" GCH9KG. not sure why they called it Sister Elsie. Here are some interesting facts about the "Sister": http://angeles.sierraclub.org/hps/signatures/09e.htm Edited October 16, 2004 by mikeh420 Quote Link to comment
+BilboB Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 I just recovered "BRAINDEAD" (AB4455) in E. Braintree, VT a few days ago! Quote Link to comment
+Colorado Papa Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 Can you tell me if I'm NOW HERE or NO WHERE? Quote Link to comment
mrh - terre haute Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 Stop by this one when you're thirsty: Bacardi Quote Link to comment
+GEO*Trailblazer 1 Posted October 19, 2004 Share Posted October 19, 2004 Well we might as well drink some,cause we aint gonna make no FORTUNE Doing this. Quote Link to comment
+bthomas Posted October 23, 2004 Share Posted October 23, 2004 ALIEN Not in Roswell or Area 51, just monumented at the top of a cement silo at the Port, Redwood City, CA. Quote Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 I'll offer my mostly strangely named benchmark so far: KU2138 False Harry Quote Link to comment
+PFF Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 I'd love the know the story behind FALSE! There's a mark our team swears we MUST put on our list. It is named DEAD DOG. We assume we should approach from upwind. (grin). It's on NC-22, just a few miles south of the community of CLIMAX. -Paul- Raleigh, NC Quote Link to comment
+GEO*Trailblazer 1 Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 (edited) Well since it almost Thanksgiving. PILGRIM And the INDIAN got together for the First one. They found a GOBBLER ON the way back the ran across a POLECAT Well you can smell the rest of the story!! Edited November 16, 2004 by GEO*Trailblazer 1 Quote Link to comment
+PFF Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 mloser wrote: I also found Pepsi 2 but have no idea why it is named that. I don't think there is a Pepsi bottling plant nearby and the mark was at a motel. My theory is that there was a Pepsi billboard close to the Lakes Motel when the original mark was set in 1960. The soft drink company was heavily into outdoor advertising during that time frame. (In North Carolina, we have a mark where a ref tag was on the Pepsi billboard support post.) An alternate theory is that a member of the crew was thirsty and it was too much trouble to return to Frystown for something to drink. Therefore, a beverage may have been purchased from the motel vending machine. If that is the situation, I salute their excellent taste in soft drinks! -Paul- PEPSI--Born in the Carolinas! Quote Link to comment
+Jabba Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 I have run across a couple of interesting names also. I wish I knew more about the reason for some of the names. hedgpeth RM 1 and apparently the other room? hedgpeth rm 2 all must have been named for this view, but where is the room Hedgpeth I have also found Mud, Sears, Barbs, Ransom, and a friendly Welcome which is right in the middle of downtown Holly Springs, NC. I have also found the Sunset mark, which was not very pretty. And I know that it is not very old, but my oldest mark was simply called R 54 but it was in a beautiful spot near the Nantahala river. A friend of mine spotted it while we were walking the train tracks back from the hardest terrain rated Geocache I have ever done, Lost Caves of the Middle Sun which is a 3.5 difficulty and a 4.5 terrain. As soon as my new metal detector gets here I will be back on a Benchmark Kick again. Its been a while since I searched for them, thanks for the thread. Jabba Quote Link to comment
Markonthedot Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 I recovered "TABLE" once. all i need to find is bench! Quote Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 I also located Wild Wild Though it was buried in the mud. And Life in the Wallkill National Wildlife Refuge. Life seems to have been paved over, and is now a bold in the road. I'm not about to dig up asphalt to find out. Quote Link to comment
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