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2021-03-07 09:15
lpaulriddle
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- Found it
I took a long bike ride through Columbia, Savage, and Jessup on this rather cold March morning. Along the way, I found 1 TerraCache, 2 opencaching.us caches, and 2 benchmarks - not a bad haul. After visiting the first stage a couple of months ago and calculating the final coordinates at home, I returned today for the find. First, I definitely think there's a typo in the formula for the parking waypoint. Using E*2 in place of E should bring you to a good place to park the car and begin the bushwhack to the cache. That's where I started, and it worked well for me. There's a bit of a trail there leading into the woods. I wheeled the bike a short way down the trail, leaned it against a tree, and bushwhacked the remaining 300' or so to GZ. Not a bad approach this time of year, but may get "growth-y" in the summer. The coordinates were good and I found the cache quickly. It is still in great shape after the maintenance in 2018. I happily added my signature below sfcchaz's, just shy of 5 years after he scored the FTF. This was a great cache! Thanks for placing it and keeping it going.
2021-01-16 12:45
lpaulriddle
(12)
- Note
I headed out on a long-ish (for me) bike ride this morning, and grabbed a couple of caches along the way. This cache has been on my "to-do" list since the first time I rode out this way, which was probably late summer or early fall. Today, I stopped by the first stage and gathered all of the necessary info. As usual, I was short on time, so I waited until I got home to make the calculations for the final. I'll swing by soon and see if I can find the cache. I think I have a pretty good shot at scoring STF 4 years and 9 months after the FTF. :)
Note - The parking coordinates that I calculated were 4.5 miles away in the middle of Patuxent Research Refuge, which is obviously wrong. I noticed that if I used E*2 instead of E, I got coordinates that made much more sense. So, either there is an error in the formula, or I wrote down the wrong value for E. When I revisit, I'll double check my numbers again and report back.
2018-09-03 20:23
DudleyGrunt
(634)
- Note
Stopped by to check today and cache was just where it should be, thought mostly buried in dirt and tree rot. The lock-n-lock container was a bit damp inside, so I've replaced with a new contrainer I saved from the trash (if you can believe it) and placed it in a manner which would prevent it from becoming buried and keep it dry..
I'm working on checking on all my OCNA hides and will post notes as I check them.
Happy Trails!
2016-04-23 15:00
sfcchaz
(405)
- Found it
2016-04-16 16:29
DudleyGrunt
(634)
- Note
2016-04-12 15:18
Mr.Yuck
(229)
- Note
