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FireRef (Found it) GC10ZWV - Smoke_House Cache (1.5/1) by mbavas
This was 1/14 caches that a group of us, including BVFDJR, Dr. Insanity, and the younger brother of another cacher went to pick up a bunch of AGT caches. We got a late start on the day, and ended up being out until 4:30am retrieving them, got soaked in the process, but had a great time and decided to check out some of the different sights in the region, as well as use up a box of pixie sticks and half a bag of Willie Wonka candy. It was a trip!
We started at this one on the way down to get to the AGT Caches because I had been here a couple of times now, and managed to find this one myself, with four of us searching. I'll post a needs maintenance log, but it was coming apart - I probably wouldn't have noticed it if it hadn't been, even though I've seen this type before. Thanks for bringing me here. We did run into the nice muggle upstairs, and 2 workers from the store who said they would let the owner know if they saw him, which they regularly did. Thanks for the cache!
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FireRef (Needs Maintenance) GC10ZWV - Smoke_House Cache (1.5/1) by mbavas
The glue on the cache container is coming apart and making it rather obvious - good container, just needs a little work.
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FireRef (Found it) GC1HABD - AGT-Clarion-Farming For Fun (1/1) by kcepenn
This was 2/14 caches that a group of us, including BVFDJR, Dr. Insanity, and the younger brother of another cacher went to pick up a bunch of AGT caches. We got a late start on the day, and ended up being out until 4:30am retrieving them, got soaked in the process, but had a great time and decided to check out some of the different sights in the region, as well as use up a box of pixie sticks and half a bag of Willie Wonka candy. It was a trip!
This was a quick stop while it was raining - only took a minute to locate the cache, but only two of us were searching - the other two cachers in the group were checking out and playing with a small cat that was in the area while the others in our group were taking care of the cache. This looks like a cool place to come back to in the fall when the maze is made. I am allergic to cats so I didn't really make friends with it, but it definitely made friends with the other members of our group. Thanks for bringing us here and putting out the cache!
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FireRef (Found it) GC1T61M - Dead Mans Run Series # 7 (1.5/1.5) by The Davis Family Rock Stoppers
This was 3/14 caches that a group of us, including BVFDJR, Dr. Insanity, and the younger brother of another cacher went to pick up a bunch of AGT caches. We got a late start on the day, and ended up being out until 4:30am retrieving them, got soaked in the process, but had a great time and decided to check out some of the different sights in the region, as well as use up a box of pixie sticks and half a bag of Willie Wonka candy. It was a trip!
I got out of the car, assuming this was going to be a quick, easy find, and spent a few minutes looking. Once they realized that I wasn't coming back, the group came over to help - and we ended up with BVFDJR moving a large part of a tree that I don't believe belongs there, with the younger brother of the other cacher finding it. He made several of the finds today, and this is only his second time out with us. Thanks for bringing us here and for putting out the cache!
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FireRef (Found it) GC1HZ72 - Huefner Spring Micro (1/1.5) by DevinC
This was 4/14 caches that a group of us, including BVFDJR, Dr. Insanity, and the younger brother of another cacher went to pick up a bunch of AGT caches. We got a late start on the day, and ended up being out until 4:30am retrieving them, got soaked in the process, but had a great time and decided to check out some of the different sights in the region, as well as use up a box of pixie sticks and half a bag of Willie Wonka candy. It was a trip!
We stopped for this one, and after a minute or so, and reading the clue, we had no trouble finding it. Dr. Insanity actually made the find. I always thought these springs were cool, but it doesn't make sense that they just leave them and post them as unsafe or unmonitored - why wouldn't you just make them unavailable then? Oh well. Thanks for bringing us here and putting the cache out.
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FireRef (Found it) GC17DA1 - AGT-Clarion-Quiet in N. Clarion Co. (1.5/1.5) by bdwPA
This was 5/14 caches that a group of us, including BVFDJR, Dr. Insanity, and the younger brother of another cacher went to pick up a bunch of AGT caches. We got a late start on the day, and ended up being out until 4:30am retrieving them, got soaked in the process, but had a great time and decided to check out some of the different sights in the region, as well as use up a box of pixie sticks and half a bag of Willie Wonka candy. It was a trip!
Thanks for bringing us here - we found it after a little searching around - the hint wasn't that helpful. The younger brother found the cache, but BVFDJR said, as he always does, that he saw it first - usually he did and is waiting for the rest of us to be able to find it. The cache was in good shape and well hidden in its space - the younger brother took a little longer than normal hiding it. Also, BVFDJR picked up a geogem from a previous cache we were at a few days back, and had it with him without logging it - he dropped it in this cache, so if the next person who reads this can make sure to pick it up from the cache it is listed in, drop it in this one, and then take it wherever so the mileage stays legit, I'd appreciate it (and so would the owner, probably) - I would have done that but I forgot to get the tracking number before we left. Thanks for the cache!
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FireRef (Found it) GC1K9X7 - Home base (1/1) by The Davis Family Rock Stoppers
This was 6/14 caches that a group of us, including BVFDJR, Dr. Insanity, and the younger brother of another cacher went to pick up a bunch of AGT caches. We got a late start on the day, and ended up being out until 4:30am retrieving them, got soaked in the process, but had a great time and decided to check out some of the different sights in the region, as well as use up a box of pixie sticks and half a bag of Willie Wonka candy. It was a trip!
Thanks for bringing us here - when we pulled over to get the cache, and I got out of the vehicle, a couple got out of their vehicle in front of the house and asked if we needed anything - I said we were geocachers, and they immediately started chatting with us, as they were the owners of the house and the cache. We found what we needed to, signed the log, they checked out my Colorado GPS, and we headed on our ways after saying goodbye. Thanks for putting this cache out and nice chatting with you!
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FireRef (Found it) GC1EN82 - Leeper 66 & 36 Travel Bug Motel (1.5/1.5) by DevinC
This was 7/14 caches that a group of us, including BVFDJR, Dr. Insanity, and the younger brother of another cacher went to pick up a bunch of AGT caches. We got a late start on the day, and ended up being out until 4:30am retrieving them, got soaked in the process, but had a great time and decided to check out some of the different sights in the region, as well as use up a box of pixie sticks and half a bag of Willie Wonka candy. It was a trip!
The younger brother and I immediately went to find this one, based on the clue, and we went through the trees looking for it. It has just previously rained, so both of us got a little wet, him more than me because he actually retrieved the cache. When he was putting it back, Dr. Insanity decided to have some fun, and shook the tree while he was under it, soaking him. He wasn't too happy, but all of us brought changes of clothes because we knew we were going to get wet today. Thanks for bringing us here and putting out this cache!
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FireRef (Found it) GC1FFYW - Firewood cache (1/1) by DevinC
This was 8/14 caches that a group of us, including BVFDJR, Dr. Insanity, and the younger brother of another cacher (who we'll call B) went to pick up a bunch of AGT caches. We got a late start on the day, and ended up being out until 4:30am retrieving them, got soaked in the process, but had a great time and decided to check out some of the different sights in the region, as well as use up a box of pixie sticks and half a bag of Willie Wonka candy. It was a trip!
This one was funny - B spotted this cache very quickly, but while leaning over the fence, he managed to break it! Well, not really break it - just knocked the split rail out of its hole, and I had to replace it while he was digging through the cache. There were some muggles having a campfire in the drizzle across the driveway, but they didn't pay any attention to us. Thanks for putting the cache out and bringing us here!
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FireRef (Found it) GC1RT3Y - Spirit Of The North (1/1) by Jeff In The BOX
This was 9/14 caches that a group of us, including BVFDJR, Dr. Insanity, and the younger brother of another cacher (who we'll call "B") went to pick up a bunch of AGT caches. We got a late start on the day, and ended up being out until 4:30am retrieving them, got soaked in the process, but had a great time and decided to check out some of the different sights in the region, as well as use up a box of pixie sticks and half a bag of Willie Wonka candy. It was a trip!
This one was found by B, but not quite the way you're supposed to. There were several places at ground zero that fit the hint, but he went to the right one, and the right part of it even. No luck though. While we were looking, someone named Ethan stopped over, and when we told him what we were doing, he said we were in the right place. When we told him we didn't find it, he looked, and said it wasn't where it was supposed to be - it was in the right...location...but not the right part of it, and hidden differently than it was supposed to. So B made the find in an unusual way. Cache was in good shape - Ethan actually spent more time looking through it to see what was in it than we did. His mom (I think) yelled at him for helping us find it which we thought was funny, and then yelled at him again as he was returning to his house because he didn't hear her calling him. We spent most of the time laughing as we were leaving because of what she said. Thanks for bringing us here and showing us this area!
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FireRef (Found it) GC16A92 - AGT-Jefferson-Heath Station Cache (2/2) by dkpath96
This was 10/14 caches that a group of us, including BVFDJR, Dr. Insanity, and the younger brother of another cacher (who we'll call "B") went to pick up a bunch of AGT caches. We got a late start on the day, and ended up being out until 4:30am retrieving them, got soaked in the process, but had a great time and decided to check out some of the different sights in the region, as well as use up a box of pixie sticks and half a bag of Willie Wonka candy. It was a trip!
Thanks for bringing us here - we were looking for another AGT stamp, and managed to find it. It was starting to get dark as we entered, so we only took one flashlight, but we did just fine with it. It was interesting to check out the pipe bridge near the beginning, and all of the fire shutoff valves along the path early on. We followed the path in, and managed to pick the wrong way to go, which required a little bushwacking and a little swampwalking, but we did fine. When we got to ground zero, it took a little while to locate the cache due to a poor GPS signal in this area. Once we found it, it was in a really good hiding place. We got our stamp, and headed out. It was a much easier trip back out because we followed the correct trail on the way out. We checked out the fish hachery near the end, and then left. BVFDJR told me later that there were 3 teenagers on the other side of the creek back in where we were, and they followed us out, but he didn't want B to get scared, so he didn't say anything to the rest of us because they stayed back. I wasn't too worried - but I'm just like that. Thanks for the tour of the area and the AGT stamp!
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FireRef (Found it) GC19DPM - AGT-Jefferson-North Fork Cache #2 (2.5/3) by dkpath96
This was 11/14 caches that a group of us, including BVFDJR, Dr. Insanity, and the younger brother of another cacher (who we'll call "B") went to pick up a bunch of AGT caches. We got a late start on the day, and ended up being out until 4:30am retrieving them, got soaked in the process, but had a great time and decided to check out some of the different sights in the region, as well as use up a box of pixie sticks and half a bag of Willie Wonka candy. It was a trip!
For this one, we parked near the road and headed up in, after making sure we had a bunch of flashlights. It was a rough climb, but it was a lot of fun - lots of rocks, lots of places to slip (like me, once), and lots of places to hide the cache. The hint helped, because it narrowed it down to a couple of possible places, but in the end, we found it without too much trouble. B got to do the stamps this time, since he had been asking, but usually after they were already done, and we put it back and headed out. This would have been a little easier in the day, but not that much easier, so it wasn't a bad choice for after it was dark. Thanks for bringing us here and for putting it out!
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FireRef (Found it) GC16846 - AGT-Jefferson-Happy Ending (2/2) by PAWINGERS
This was 12/14 caches that a group of us, including BVFDJR, Dr. Insanity, and the younger brother of another cacher (who we'll call "B") went to pick up a bunch of AGT caches. We got a late start on the day, and ended up being out until 4:30am retrieving them, got soaked in the process, but had a great time and decided to check out some of the different sights in the region, as well as use up a box of pixie sticks and half a bag of Willie Wonka candy. It was a trip!
This was one of the last ones we did, because we were getting tired, it was after midnight (even though I'm logging it as the day before, because I consider days to end when I go to bed - haha), and it was a relatively long hike for that time of the night. B doesn't like being in the woods too much at night, but did a very good job. We laughed most of the way in and out, thinking about the meaning of the name of this cache - not too hard to figure out where they were probably going with it. Found the cache easily, let B stamp the books, and headed out. Thanks for bringing us here and showing us the area. The nearby conservation camp was neat to look at the signs for even if we couldn't see much because it was late.
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FireRef (Found it) GC169DV - AGT-Jefferson-Trailside Cache (2/2) by PAWINGERS
This was 13/14 caches that a group of us, including BVFDJR, Dr. Insanity, and the younger brother of another cacher (who we'll call "B") went to pick up a bunch of AGT caches. We got a late start on the day, and ended up being out until 4:30am retrieving them, got soaked in the process, but had a great time and decided to check out some of the different sights in the region, as well as use up a box of pixie sticks and half a bag of Willie Wonka candy. It was a trip!
I believe the intent of this cache was to get there from the trail, but we decided to go from the nearby dead-end road, since it was late and we didn't really feel like walking a mile down a trail. After turning around multiple times, and BVFDJR and I arguing a little over which way we should go since we couldn't drive down the trail itself, we ended up going down the dead end road, which is a lot longer than I would have expected. Getting in from here required a little more bushwacking than we expected from the cache description, but we figured that was just the way things go - BVFDJR always takes the hardest way possible to get to a cache. We went up and down a couple of small hills to get to where the cache was supposed to be, and managed to pass it, finding it when we turned around and looked at something which kind of was indicated by the hint. We were looking for something else on the trees, based on my interpretation of the hint, so I guess it would be my fault that we didn't spot it sooner. We found the cache, B got to stamp the books, and we headed back, helping each other over the small drainage ditches and up the slick hills from the rain. Thanks for bringing us here and showing us this area!
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FireRef (Found it) GC1BYN2 - AGT-Jefferson-Medical Hill (2/1) by Mailbrat
This was 14/14 caches that a group of us, including BVFDJR, Dr. Insanity, and the younger brother of another cacher (who we'll call "B") went to pick up a bunch of AGT caches. We got a late start on the day, and ended up being out until 4:30am retrieving them, got soaked in the process, but had a great time and decided to check out some of the different sights in the region, as well as use up a box of pixie sticks and half a bag of Willie Wonka candy. It was a trip!
This was the last one of the day - we got there quite easily, but it required quite the drive (25-30 minutes) from the last one we did. I wanted to see what the hint was needed for. I thought we were going to be looking for a statue or something, considering what I saw on the overhead view and the hint, but it turned out to be much simpler than that. Dr. Insanity got the container open, we handled the stamps (on a nice flat picnic table, which is much easier than most of the places we did the stamps!), and started the trip home. We stopped at a nearby Sheetz to get some food and change some clothes because we were completely soaked, and then made the 2 hr trip back home. While traveling, we talked about going out Sunday and doing a couple more counties. Thanks for bringing us here and making this series which has shown me that there's a lot more to Pennsylvania than just the little corner I live in up near Erie.
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