I think it is only right to put a success story here after the last one I started made such a long thread.
This success is not just that I found a cache, but it is a success in finding a super outstanding cache. I'm talking about Red Wine Cache (GCGHTM) It is near one of the best natural water slides that I have ever seen.
It is not a urban drive by. It is in the National Forest. The owner highly recommends a 4x4 and I do too. If you hike in it is about one mile. I drove my pickup in but had to walk the last 800 feet.
~Erik~ might make it a drive by. But my bet is that he will past up going down the slide. I wish yo-yo man would take someone with him to take pictures of him coming down the water slide.
I can hardly wait to read the logs :

This sounds like it's up my alley.


Wonder if Dog-A-Potmus is ready for some more swimming!

Just don't try to use the stream as a way back to the car.

I was so looking forward to it too!

Just kidding. That will not be an issue. I will be going with a native of the area.

It would work in this place. Just hop in the water a slide to the car. The trick is driving to the
creek near the cache.

This looks like a good one. My weekend is pretty much tied up with various projects, but maybe I can slip away Sunday afternoon with the Land-Rover......... hehe.

~erik~

That was actually my first time out there when I went with these 2 4x4 nuts...Bad Dawg 83 (my cousin) has been tagging along with 79jeeper (my youngest brother) Geocaching and wanted to hide one and they both knew where, out in Red Wine Cove. It was a town at the turn of the century, if you go to the cachesite youwill pass a spot where a gate and car is on the left, the remains of the town (jail and everything) are up on the hillside, or what is left of the foundations of it. Never seen it myself.
Johnnie parked where we did, lots of pine beetles have devastated the forest, trees down everywhere. It was getting dusk and I could barely see the waterslide, but looked pretty cool, I've got to go back and see it in the daytime, maybe even think (just think) about it. 79jeeper has a pic of a guy tumbling his Suzuki Samauri over 5 times trying to go up the hill to the right of where we parked. They are now wanting to hide one even farther back in the cove, so stay tuned...BTW this is the first cache in Whitfield County, we've got to get more up in the NW GA area!

I am making plans to visit this weekend. I won't be alone and was wondering, for their sake, about how far is the waterslide from the cache site?

I was told that the "cove" is used for baptisms. So I was thinking that it would be an accessible by car spot (the slide and cove). Was thinking about taking a picnic lunch and letting the dog-a-potamus play in the water while we were up there, after the cache hunt of course. Is that a do-able plan or am I just totally off base?

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I was told that the "cove" is used for baptisms

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Remember 4x4. The road follows the creek even
before the pavement ends. I don't know where
the baptisms are held, but they could be
on the paved road.

You can see the water slide from the cache.

Before you get to the cache area you ford the
creek at a place that looked good for playing in the creek, and maybe picnic. There is a wide place for parking ect. just past the ford.

Thanks Johnnie. Sounds like a plan!

Red wine was a lot nicer before the pine beetles
got a hold of it.me and bunch of my friend's have
been going there for years. Me and my cuz was trying to find a good place to hide a cache that
was'nt to easy to find,so we pick red wine cove.
The further back you go,the better it is.

Like team happy spider said, a friend of mine rolled his lifted samauri end over end five time's. I got great pic's too. If you like
4 wheeling you love the place.[rock's deep creeks,&hill climing] but where we put the cache
is not to bad. but i would'nt drive a car to it.
We just put this out to see if anybody would like it.We got plan's to put one out further back.
Johnnie, team happy spider said you would'nt try to find this one, but you was the first. Im real glad you like this cache.

This one looks interesting. Need to give 'Big Boy' a workout. Got to use the 4-wheel drive evey now and then to keep it from forgetting how. Am gonna try to slip over here tommorrow morn. (That is if I get up before 'Honey-Do' does and make my getaway.)


"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

I was all prepared for the fun trip up here this morning. When one of the insane sisters tore her ACL so, I had to scrub the trip for today. I too (with D-A-P) will be heading up that way tomorrow morning while Dollie rests up for her surgery.

Hope to see you up there phat.bak.

I got to slip away this morn and grabbed the cache. Met up with the cache owner just as I was pulling into the woods. Had a nice chat and off I went. My 'Big Boy' was almost TOO BIG to get in there. Had a great time,tho. He said that he is going to put a cache even further back into the woods. Now that one will be interesting. You'll see what I mean when you get there.

"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

I've planned to sneak off and head up there in the morning too. Hope to see you there Slayerette. Hopefully the cache won't have been moved further into the woods between the time I print out the coords and the time I get up there.


~erik~

I did find this cache today. It took me two hours of driving to get to where the pavement ends and another two hours to get home. Then I either blacked out or I spent another two hours driving the mile or so to the cache and back.

Who knows. It was a fun drive though, and I got to meet the three guys who hid the cache. Later tonight I see they hid another cache a couple of miles away. I may have to crank up the old Land-Rover for another long journey! I probably should check it's steering and alignment first though - the steering wheel has turned about 60° to the right from where it was before I went off roading today. I probably bent something under there.

~erik~

I didn't make it all the way up there yesterday. Flashbacks of Kayak Cache kept flashing through my mind. As we were heading up there (D-A-P and I), the sky opened up and nearly washed us off the highway. Since I am not a good 4 x 4 'er with a lot of experience I was not going to take any chances of getting stuck. Maybe I was a little gun-shy, but I am so tired of the situations I keep putting myself in. I just can't afford them anymore.