Your TOUGHEST geocache finds

“This one did for me-- almost! hehe...

Two days later and I'm just beginning to REALLY feel all the soreness from this geocache adventure.

Wild animals... almost lost... very remote... views to kill for... the push to return to civilization -- this one had it all!!

Oh... and the poison ivy is just starting a few blisters here and there.

YEAH, IT WAS GREAT!! :-)

Share your wild or tough geocache adventures here.

Mine -- complete with FIVE PHOTOS! -- can be found at:

The Lair at Reno, Minnesota -- GEOCACHE EXTRAORDINAIRE!

Enjoy the trip! *big grin*”

“Maybe it was Bearcat!”

“I am considering making a cache in a known tough spot. Because of local topography and geology GPS signals are very erratic, with positional errors of 1/4 mile or more common in the cheaper rec grade GPS devices.”

“I just learned about geocaches a couple weeks ago when someone I was backpacking with found one at Cottonwood Pass in the southeast Sierras:

http://community.webshots.com/scripts/editPhotos.fcgi?action=showMyPhoto&albumID=39120606&photoID=39121232&security=joditr”

“Great find Liz!!!...I wish we had more cachers like you around here.

I placed the first level 5 in our area months ago, and no one has had the "stuff" to go for it...I even have a level 4 on Mt Shasta that has attracted no attention, oh well.

The level 5 can be found here... Hoodo cache
The level 4 is here.. Shasta cache
I suspect they will get more traffic when the snow melts.

There are 2 level 5 caches in nearby county's, my partner and I are going after them this weekend, I'll update ya.

wingding, I can't get to your link..it seems to be for the owner of the album, not visitors..”

“I have had a couple challenges, but nothing really tough until last weekend. The cache was on a river surrounded by private land. I tried walking up the riverbank, but the weeds were over my head. I was covered in dozens of tick after the first hundred feet. I bailed on that cache. I will wait for next fall.

I found one on the edge of a 200 foot bluff. That was kind of hairy. I had to climb over a log and crawl along a ledge to get the cache. I suffer from acrophobia so it was white knuckle city.

I climbed up a cliff next to a cave for another. I found out later that I was on top of a round mountain and the only feasible way down was the way I came. I found the cave 'chimney' on the forest floor above it. I am glad I was watching where I was walking.”

“oops,

Here is the picture of the geocache find at Cottonwood Pass:
http://community.webshots.com/photo/39120606/39121232joditr”

“lizs, Do you geocache solo?”

“Pretty much. Some around Chicago I did with a friend. Around home I'm on my own. Like this past weekend. :-) And hey, my poison ivy never did go full blown. I believe I am "poison ivy resistant!" hehehehe :-)

So, when are we gonna meet in Missouri and do Taum Sauk (or whatever it is?? I don't even know where it is but DO KNOW -- thanks to a travel bug going there -- that it's the highest peak in MO)

So........ should I be packin', bacpac??”