[pct-l] Caches

[leestcoast at gmail.com]

Hey you guys, I appreciate the info on finding caches. My son and I have run into problems locating them - we used them in 06 and 07 in SoCal a couple of times. I like to use OpSaks inside of those tear-resistant FedEx soft mailer envelops - incidently, they were never disturbed by rodents or other animals.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Powers <ken at gottawalk.com>
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:36:28 
To: PCT Listserve<pct-l at backcountry.net>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Caches

We cached water in the Utah and Nevada deserts for our American Discovery 
Trail hike. We found the pictures of where we cached the water were much 
more helpful than the gps waypoints we marked.

The water caches on Utah's Kokopelli Trail were placed by another person who 
sent us pictures and descriptions of where the caches were buried. We found 
every one of those caches - some without even pulling out the gps. We found 
one cache even though the gps waypoint was a quarter mile from the actual 
cache.

A few caches we placed in Nevada are still out there. We recognized the 
general area, but all the sagebrush looked different from when we buried the 
cache.

I agree that having the gps waypoint to get you into the correct area is 
valuable, but the pictures were much more helpful in finding the exact 
location.

Ken
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From: "Kevin Cook" <hikelite at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Resupply


Hi Ed

I actually liked reading the details of how you handle your caches. I think
you have mentioned some aspects before, but this detail is useful to know
what works.

You recently mentioned you had a GPS. In addition to taking a photo of your
caches, I would recommend you mark the location in your GPS. You probably
already thought of that, but I wanted to mention it just in case. I've used
this method to find things I "hide" in the forest. A couple months ago I had
to "cache" a mountain bike to travel between trailheads after a hike.
Honestly, I thought I would have no problem remembering exactly where it
was, but I was glad I had the GPS. It took me right to it, and it didn't
look at all familiar more than a week later LOL


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