“Floodwaters Bring KC Cache to St. Louis
(Published: May, 2009)
(Note: click on an image for a larger view)
Mike Nagl had never heard of geocaching until he pulled a
cache container out of the
Mike managed to retrieve the box from the water and, after digging it out of the crane bucket, tried to figure out what it was. One of Mike's coworkers thought it was military and warned Mike not to open it. After cleaning off more of the mud, someone else recognized the word "Geocache." Mike recalls, "I had no idea what it was. Somebody said that geocaching was that game where people use a GPS to find stuff. I thought that sounded like a fun hobby." They opened the box, which contained perfectly dry toys and a logbook. Here is Mike’s entry in the logbook:
I found your
cache on the
I was
cleaning out a log jam and I noticed the box and after retrieving it I
contacted “Eddie”, who informed me it had to have traveled 500 miles on water
to get to me. Amazing and very
exciting. Good luck to all.
Mike N.
Mike felt compelled to learn more about geocaching and tried to find out who the cache owner was.
Luckily, a sticker with the cache owner's email address was
still attached to the outside of the box. Mike contacted the owner, ajayhawkfan,
and let him know of his discovery. After some initial skepticism, ajayhawkfan
realized that this must be one of his containers that had been originally
placed in the
Ajayhawkfan posted a message in the
forums at the Missouri Geocachers Association
website, and asked if any
May 7 2009, 06:48 PM
I need help!
On July 2-4 2007
Earlier this week I received an email from a worker that found my cache. It was
found along the
That means my cache floated about 500 miles over 2 years. It went thought both
Truman Res. and Dam and
I would like to get the cache back. The worker is holding it for me. He lives
in the SW part of STL. Would someone be willing to pick it up for me?
Eddie
ajayhawkfan@yahoo.com
SLAGA President, L Frank, arranged to meet Mike near his home, where he picked up the cache and listened to Mike's story. After a little research, L Frank confirmed that the cache was the final stage of ajayhawkfan's WALK THE PIPE!?!? (see cache logs, below), and that it had probably been washed away in a flood, traveling some 367 miles via the Blue River, the Missouri River and finally the Mississippi River in less than 9 months.
Ajayhawkfan's amazing "traveling cache" will soon
be on its way to GeoWoodstock, where
it will be handed off to another
WALK THE PIPE!?!?
A cache by ajayhawkfan
Hidden: 7/11/2006
Size: 
(Regular)
Difficulty: 
Terrain: 
(1 is easiest, 5 is
hardest)
|
Cache Logs |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
