North Dekalb Mall

Success? Failure?

I've got that one on my watch list and had a giggle when I read the log this morning. hehe

~erik~

Greg, congrats on finding the North DeKalb cache. After reading your log and Erik's log I am going to either ignore that this one exists or come with: 1) a raft, 2)a machette, 3) gallon sized bottle of DEET and most importantly 4) something chambered in .223 or larger!!!!

The only thing you didn't mention was how big the rattlesnake was.

If you want another challenge. Go back to Yellow Jacket's The Hive. I went by on Friday. I got run off by two very offended red tailed Hawks who must be raising young in a nearby tree. No kidding, after being swooped over about five times I spent so much time looking up that I never found the cache. Maybe in a few weeks the little youngsters will be out of the nest and I can go back to safely find the cache.

Mtn-man: I take a perverse pleasure in knowing that in my own log entry (three entries before yours) I stated that the creek could be crossed since I had done it myself. I wonder (in an evil fashion of course) if my log gave you the motivation to cross.

Had my own creek crossing been as noteworthy as yours, my log would have been much longer than the six lines that it is. Or, had I read a log as bad as yours before crossing the creek, I never would have attempted it myself. I guess it's one of these "Your Mileage May Vary" things.

In a separate thread sometime, we could all tell stories about the odd things we have done to cover the remaining 500 feet to the cache. Sometimes you're just so close that you can't just turn around.

Mtn-Man,
Classic, simply Classic!

How about adding insult to injury...
I lost my money clip somewhere on the seven caches and two multi-caches that I started working on. It only had about 15 bucks but I liked my little gold money clip. Oh well!

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Originally posted by mtn-man:
How about adding insult to injury...
I lost my money clip somewhere on the seven caches and two multi-caches that I started working on. It only had about 15 bucks but I liked my little gold money clip. Oh well!

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I've been watching this cache for a while and the logs have not been encouraging me to try it anytime soon.

Even the lure of $15 doesn't do it for me.

mtn-man, I did leave $2 million bill in my HOKE cache if you want to go to Dacula.
Good luck using it to buy a new money clip

Kenneth

--- He's so skinny, he has to run around in the shower to get wet.

If that baby came out whilst you were cooling off in S.P'tree Creek, you may not want it back! I noticed you did go RIGHT home and took a real bath.
I'd be happy to run through Trolly Stop and have a look for it tomorrow.

One thing I left out of the story was finding a drivers license in the creek. It was from FL, and it is expired. I wondered if the owner might be expired too and may in fact be somewhere up or downstream from me. Spooky thought!

You are so right about taking a shower. I so wanted to get the two multi-caches that I was working on at the same time as I was doing the regular caches out there. I decided that I needed to get to the house and get in the shower ASAP. I had the time and really wanted a few more caches on the day.

TinSparrow, you and I need to chat!

It would have been so easy to say "TNLNSL", but what fun would that have been. I love making people laugh... even if they are laughing at me instead of with me!

I came across a thread on the geocaching.com forums about funny log entries, and some of these give mtn-man a run for his money.

Check out BrianSnat's log here.

Or read about Salvo getting attacked by the wild boar here.

Almost any log for The Homeless Bathtub is good.

Here is the original thread.

I was at Hahn's Library tonight. I didn't know to look for a money clip so I wasn't being overly diligent. However, I did not see it near the area of the cache. Sorry.

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Originally posted by TinSparrow:

Check out BrianSnat's log
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=14045&log

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That was a good one, makes me feel a little better about a couple of my cache hunts that went awry.

Caching Rule #307 - If you wear your street shoes, you WILL encounter either mud, water, slick rocks, steep terrain, or probably all of the above.


But the main lesson to be learned from Brian's adventure is to be very careful about taking a short-cut or different route back to the trail or car. I have learned (the hard way) to resist that urge to find a shorter or better way back.

CharlieP

I'm not sure whether I should be scared or excited. These horror stories are great...as long as they happen to other people.

Looks like I need to find a partner for some of the non-urban caches though, since my geo-mobile is dependant on my GPS for a speedometer...that gives you some idea of it's durability. If I had run mine down a 300 foot muddy embankment, I probably would just have stripped off anything that identified it as mine and thumbed my way back home.

A car you don't care about is well and good, but being stuck in the wilderness without a buddy or cell phone is just dumb. If anyone wants to drag a relative newbie along on some of these pleasure cruises, sign me up!

Geocaching is like Pokemon for grown-ups. "Gotta cache 'em all!"

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Originally posted by Jonshai:
I'm not sure whether I should be scared or excited. These horror stories are great...as long as they happen to other people.

Looks like I need to find a partner for some of the non-urban caches though, since my geo-mobile is dependant on my GPS for a speedometer...that gives you some idea of it's durability. If I had run mine down a 300 foot muddy embankment, I probably would just have stripped off anything that identified it as mine and thumbed my way back home.

A car you don't care about is well and good, but being stuck in the wilderness without a buddy or cell phone is just dumb. If anyone wants to drag a relative newbie along on some of these pleasure cruises, sign me up!

Geocaching is like Pokemon for grown-ups. "Gotta cache 'em all!"

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As an alternate plan, you could grab the coords, throw some leaves over it and lay some bark (someone coined the term barkoflage) on it, get home and post it as a cache .
It could be another Dude Where's My Car?.

Kenneth

--- He's so skinny, he has to run around in the shower to get wet.

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If I had run mine down a 300 foot muddy embankment, I probably would just have stripped off anything that identified it as mine and thumbed my way back home.

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Who slid down a 300 foot embankment????

Heck Slay, I can't remember. I read it somewhere. I probably imagined it. I just have a vague recollection of reading something about a cachemobile going over an embankment and someone needing to use a muddy wench to rescue the vehicle and her dogs.

*Tries to look innocent*

Jonshai

Geocaching is like Pokemon for grown-ups. "Gotta cache 'em all!"

"Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries, and you'll have a fine pig and a bad child." -Proverb