December 31 - My final finds for 2002: Duck & Cover
and Old
Stone Walls. What a fun year this has been. Now that I've learned a lot about
how best to geocache & hunt down Weird NJ, this year (beginning in April) should be
the most productive ever....
December 27 - I went out and after a bit of logical thinking,
found the French Burying Ground
in New Milford on my lunch hour.
December 26 - Went & logged a find on How LOW can you go
as well as Boy Scout Gateways
December 23 - Went over to the Oradell Water Treatment Plant,
and while looking at the cop who was giving out a ticket, discovered one of those fake
cell phone trees, so I logged a find on That Tree Looks so Fake
December 22 - An interview I did with the local paper finally
made its way into print in today's Bergen Record.. Click here for a scan of the
article.
December 17 - Stumbled onto a qualifier for Cache Bay by
accident. I also archived some caches that just weren't cutting it.
NOVEMBER 2002:
November 29 - Went out looking for a lot, only found a little.
Started with The Great Falls of the Passaic and then headed for Nike -
last ditch air defense. I had wanted to seek a lot today including a Golf Disc
Park to log another LC, but couldn't find it. I also had a devil of a time finding the
grave of Robert Erskine so I gave up and headed for Jungle Habitat. On the way out I finally
managed to find Robert Erskine's
Grave, a tad anti-climactic unfortunately. While there though, I managed to Log a
Lion.
November 9 - - I went out looking for one locationless, and
along the way realized I may be able to nail another. When I got to Dome Home,
I realized I could also do Hippie VW Microbus as well! I then went on to log a find for HV1: Birdwatching Towers
Around the World. I then went & placed two new
locationless caches: a
HO lotta fun, and This Must Be the
Place.
November 5 - After hours I nailed two more locationless ones.
I did POW/MIA,
as well as Water towers: Plain jane
or Picturesque. Also went & did another Lives like
Trash: The Oil Tanks of
Hackensack.
November 4 - Went to Great Adventure today to see Frightfest.
Nailed a few virtuals in the area including Visage Homage,
as well as Allentowns Cache. Grabbed a few locationless including Fictitious Folk,. No Sharp Corners and Aircraft Nav Aids. I had tried to do the working water wheel but didn't realize it was necessary
to be at a historic place. I also did the fake tree one, but someone else had logged that
one already. DAMN! I also did TeePee Mania, it
took a few days but it just got approved.
OCTOBER 2002:
October 26 - Hit two more locationless ones today: Tanks
for the Memories & Armories Around the
World,: I also found the Jersey Devil. Finally!
Then we went to the Weird
NJ Halloween party that night.
October 25 - Took off on a Friday. I had no interest in any inspection that
was going to take place at work that day. among the locationless caches that I nailed
today were: Remote Av8R, Plank Roads, &
Fitness in the
Park, I took pictures for new Dragons locationless I was creating. I went & searched out Flower Hill
Cemetery, and while in the area nailed Out of Place Pyramids,
and The noble Guardian,
as well as For Valor. I
explored the Edgewater RR
tunnel, then went & did 3 caches in and around Newark, as well as
locating the NJ Pac Center
grave marker. The caches were 796.51, Matt's Cherry Blossoms,
The Back of
Lincoln Park. Along the way to Cherry Blossoms, I saw a qualifier for Gargoyles.
As a last stop before heading home I went & found a supposedly abandoned graveyard. It
wasn't, but I did find an unusual
grave....
October 20 - I recently realized Sunday mornings are the
perfect time for me & Andrew to go geocaching or Weird NJ'g. He's up anyway so I can't
get nuthin done, and that wakes up Dawn who'd rather sleep late. If we go out, I get
something done, plus she sleeps in & I'm doing stuff outside which is real productive
AND nobody gets time lost. perfect.
Wanting to keep it simple and get as much done as possible, I only went
after locationless & virtuals today. Hit Lady Bird, Odd Back Yard, &
George
Washington Slept Here all of which were within 1 mile of one another & of my
dad's old house in Boonton. Then went and found Old Dude, and Skate
Parks and on the way back nailed Aircraft
Navigation Aids
October 19 - Went out on a Saturday, logged a few locationless
caches including Kitschy Capitols,
Smash Penny,
Damn the
Torpedoes and Cache at the Barrellhead.
October 17 - Revisited Federal Hill to get pictures of the
ruins, also used the cave as the find for the locationless cache Cave In.
- October 14 - Went after Little Morris
and then went & found Mills Reservation.
October 8 - Logged Barber Pole,
as well as Somewhere in Time,
and The
Hands of Time. Barber Pole is obviously, a barber pole, Somewhere in
Time required me to find a time capsule to log the find, and Hands of Time required me to
find a free standing clock.
October 6 - Logged The Fallen,
a memorial to Bergen County 9-11 victims. Also logged Timing is
Everything, which required you to use the number of the time you want to log the
cache to determine the coordinates you need to be at. Rather challenging.
October 4 - I noticed a new cache in the Palisades, right near
where the Zabriski house is. Again, Big Bill has forced my hand again. Ran out did some
errands, logged a find on Alpine
Overlook before moving the Zabriski
Point cache.
SEPTEMBER 2002:
September 29 - Had to get out because of Dawn being
hospitalized. Decided to have Andy stay with his babysitter and spend the morning caching
& possibly Weird NJ'g it. Got out at sunrise & immediate went & used the
Blackledge Kearny house to log a find on Time to
find Something Historic. I then went & found Alpine 9W
no problem. It was hidden right near where I had planted a cache in July. I debated
removing it, then decided just to move it and I now released The
Library at the Old 9W. Went & found The Giant
Stairs after a decent search. Came back, ran into Stayfloopy, who beta-tested
the Library cache. Went & found Alpine Ski
Trail easy nuff then headed back to the car. I tried to find the Observatory Quest, but
you can't get to it right now. Will return later, but logged a find anyway. Meanwhile Dawn
was having trouble at the hospital. I tried in vain to find the asshole's house and was
having nothing but cell phone reception problems. By now I was wayyyy behind schedule and
I decided to call it a day. At the end of the day I took pictures of Route 208 to qualify
a find for Goodbye Hollywood
September 28 - Logged the Fallen
Heroes cache finally (I found it a week ago but couldn't find the cache to log
it under!) Then I went and found Fading
Signs, and the WWW
virtual. Also went & found the smallest house in NJ just before it
got dark.
September 21 - Revisited Lad's cache because it was planted in
poison ivy, but also found Lad's grave too. Also found a tribute to firefighters but can't
find the cache itself to log the find. I also located the Kip Corwin graveyard.
September 19 - I decided to take the day off & go
exploring and it paid off. I went back & got pictures of Mothers & the IF
house. I also located the park where Lad the dog was, but still
couldn't find his specific grave. I enjoyed the park so much I planted a geocache
there. I then headed for Federal Hill, found the door, found the cache,
but didn't find the building ruins. (afterwards someone gave me directions so I'll be
heading back soon) After a brief stop for lunch I logged my 100th cache at Billy E
9/11, then hid my Van Slyke
cache. Whew. I got my 100 before my one year anniversary. Now I can stop worrying....
September 18 - Went out & had a fairly disappointing
evening. Spent an hour looking for the Cliffs of Dey Hills after I
was told I had been looking in the wrong place earlier. Then I looked for Wayne Nike base, and both are gone.
I had no luck finding the grave of Lad the dog either. With day light fading I did manage
to find the first FHA
assisted house, as well as the gatehouse of Cecil b Demille. I also
located the IF house
but it as so late there was no way to take pictures. I also located Mothers, but it was
too dark to go exploring.
September 14 - Went to Dorney park where I found a carousel,
which I used to log a find on the Carousel LC.
Almost visited Manunka Chunk tunnels as I was in the area, but the rain coupled with my
wife not feeling well told me it was not meant to be. I also found a vendo-bait machine,
but I won't load the info or the weird cross I found till I do a bit more research....
September 7 - Updated the site a bit, also added links to the Manunka Chunk Tunnels,
and to the Vultures
Graveyard, each of which had caches placed on them recently by other people.
September 6 - Looked for the Cliffs of Dey Hills,
and found a really old glass Clorox jug. I also took a picture of Annie's rd to use for my
log on Ghostbusters.
I picked up Dawn from the doctor and then bagged No Se Perite Nadar, a very interesting
find over by Elvis at Garrett Mountain. While there I dropped off the pictures I took of
him.
September 3 - On the return from Virginia I visited the Trolley graveyard,
and bagged the find for it on "Trolley
Valhalla". I also found this weird little house too.
September 1, 2 - Went to Virginia to visit the theme parks.
While there picked up a few caches including Lighthouse Lookout at
Dogwood Dell, River
View and River View 2. I
also was inspired to created the new locationless cache More than just Seven
Wonders. I also discovered the Pump House
AUGUST 2002:
August 24 - Went out & found the Chameleon Cache when I remembered that the movie Big was
filmed at Ross Dock. I then went out despite the rain and found Cache 54 Where Are
You, followed by Morris Canal,
and finally Computer
Cache. All were very easy, although the last one was off a road that didn't
exist according to my mapping software, causing me to wonder just how I was supposed to
find the park... When I got home I released a new locationless cache called Stone Ruins,
based on finding an abandoned stone structure in the woods.
August 23 - Went back & rechecked the coordinates for the
Van Slyke Mansion cache. I rushed when I saw the time & now I'll have to go back
probably. After I picked up Andy I went & found the Elven Cache.
August 20 - I went out and got 2/3 the way there before I
realized that I didn't have my GPS. I could've turned around but by the time I went back,
traffic would be horrific so I bit the bullet, and looked for stuff I knew I could get
coordinates for from my software. Visited Button Woods, the midgetville of Singac,
and then the auto graveyard of Jokey's
Hollow (although I didn't check it out fully.)
August 19 - Went & visited the Van Slyke Mansion, but
couldn't take pictures cause the batteries were dead.
August 16 - Went & got more pictures of Marc Hartzman's
ebay stuff, then checked out his neighbor, owner of a very odd house in Hoboken..
Afterwards we checked out Elvis
in the park for his memorial service.
August 14 - Spent the day seeking out weird stuff in the
Paterson/Totowa area. I had planned to go out after work, but when my bridge fell out and
I had to go see the dentist on an emergency basis, I said screw it and took the afternoon
off. Thank god I did, because my wife's co-workers went out after work which meant I had
to get Andrew, effectively killing the adventuring I had planned to do in the evening. It
began with my seeking out the Inclement
Weather cache, which was in the same area as Lou Costello, the JFK face at the falls, and
I was able to use Lou to qualify for the Bronze baseballer
cache as well as the Beauty of Waterfalls
cache. I then went to the dentist, and came back to the area.
I began with Garrett Mountain. I visited the Lambert Castle,
although I didn't visit the house itself, which qualified for the My Castles cache.
Afterwards I sought out Sierro
Bravo 04 and the Garrett Mountain #2,
a bitch of a cache. Hidden deviously, getting there was half the fun. So to speak. After
that I relaxed by meeting Elvis,
who was taking a break between performances at parking area #7. After a desperate search
for gas, I headed over to Annie's
Rd, and of course, midgetville.
I checked out Laurel Hill
cemetery, and found the electricians grave. I also looked for and found a hidden
cemetery off of Annie's rd that I call the Jewish cemetery.
While there I found the requirement to log a find on the Broken Columns
cache. By now my wife had called and asked me to pick up the baby. I had planned to seek
out the abandoned buildings of Dey Hills, maybe even Federal Hill, but I jammed my foot
real bad while seeking Garrett Mountain 2, and there will be other chances to go out, so I
gave it up for my wife. She's been feeling like crap so any chance for her to be social
& feel better is worth going for. I did, however stop by the Celery Farm
with Andrew. What a fantastic area!
August 11 - Finally got around to checking out the abandoned railway station
of Ridgefield. I also added two thing sin the newest update to the site: the Neon Graveyard from
our Las Vegas trip, and Doug's
wedding. I also finally released the 150 Years of Docks cache.
August 10 - Visited Shades of Death Rd, and The Pumpkin House, as well
as the Eye Doctor's place.
August 3 - Added a bunch of new pages to the site. Also went
out & sought Cheeky's Hideout, which turns out to have been
messed with by the local FUC (Favorite Uninvited Cacher). Then I went for Curse of
the Suburban Jungle, a really good challenge but I got totally messed up.
Dirty, muddy, and scratched by far too many thornbushes, I found it after a very long
search. Reception was shit & we had to cross a brook. I hunted for a crossing place
the way over, waded thru the way back cause I couldn't deal with the thorns & more
hunting.
JULY 2002:
July 31 - Found out the gay guys from Hackensack River County
Park may have moved to the Palisades. Harrold encountered two guys with pants around their
ankles. Sheesh. Went and bought another ammo box more ammo tape and some books for the
cache. Also registered with bookcrossing a where's george for books. Worked on the Ebay write-up
and asked follow-up questions of Marc.
July 30 - I went & placed items into the 150 Years of
Docks cache but didn't release it yet cause I couldn't find my first set of coordinates. I
also revisited the Allison Park cache because 3 people visited it and came up empty.
Sah-prize, sah-prize, sah-prize! The coordinates were spot on, and the cache was still
there, I just stumped them all! Wow. Unfortunately I discovered that a homeless dude is
apparently staying 10 feet from that spot. Harold's note alluded to this fact, but it
didn't stop think from spending an hour looking for it. I don't think it'll be a problem,
but worse comes to worse I'll move it. Yeah it sucks, but not as much as being homeless
sucks.... I also met with Marc Hartzman, author of "Found on Ebay".
July 27 - Verified the coordinates of the You Bug me geocache & released it. Discovered the book "Found
on Ebay", and found out the guy lives in Hoboken! Arranged a date to meet him
July 26 - I investigated the VW graveyard, and hid the You
Bug Me geocache.
July 26 - Visited Fairview Cemetery
looking for a specific grave but didn't find it. Placed a geocache (with nothing in it,
I'll stock it when I revisit) down by the Hudson river, then investigated the midgets of Edgewater..
I also released the two new geocaches Historic
Forts, and Allison Park, and Historic
Forts, and Robert's Cadgene Estate.
July 25 - Visited Last
Service in NJ. Took me longer then I should have to find it, but the coordinates
were a tad off. I see Marc has now re checked them. It's inspired me to create a new cache
using a very unique cache container that will blend in well with it's environment. Perhaps
too well...
July 23 - I went out after work and hid some geocaches I'm
going to release soon in the NJ Palisades. I also stopped at Ft Lee Historic Park and got
pictures which allowed me to claim the location less caches Historic
Forts, and History is all around us.
July 20- Did some errands, then stumbled onto Gilligan's House.
July 19 - I had tried to create my own Lucy the Elephant
cache, but Team Zippy beat me to it. So I archived mine and logged a find on theirs.
After work I went out & successfully sought two of Artful Dodger's Caches: The
Jukebox, and The Video Shop. Managed to get back to my car only minutes
before it came down in buckets on the area.
July 13 - Spent the entire weekend down in the Atlantic City
area checking out geocaches & Weird NJ. I must say that abandoned houses &
businesses are a dime a dozen down here. Towards the end we were playing "Abandoned
Or Live Like Trash", trying to determine if houses were actually abandoned or if they
only looked like they should be. We began by dropping Andy at the baby sitter for the
weekend driving to a hotel near AC. I picked up some maps and we got a start bright and
early on Saturday. The game plan was to visit Shellpile, and a few other nearly abandoned
towns. Unfortunately I under estimated how long it would take to get there and to our
primary destination this weekend: the memorial service for Emilio Carranza. We got a late
start in part because my wife was feeling ill, and headed right for ShellPile. As was the
case all weekend, we stumbled upon weird stuff wherever we went, including a jet used in the movie tank
girl and the Bethlehem WW II
munitions building. We also found my favorite shopping mall.
We then headed for Shellpile & Seabreeze, two abandoned towns according to WNJ.
Well we never got there. We stopped along the way at the Head
of the River cache, which is actually located yards outside one of NJ's oldest
churches. Although it's now barely functioning, this Church was established in 1792 or
thereabouts, and many of the graves in their graveyard are quite old. I didn't have time
to explore though because.... well let's just say I miscalculated how long it would take
to get from our hotel to these towns and from there to Tabernacle. We got out later then I
anticipated, and I could already sense the time crunch. We got maybe... 5 minutes away
from Shellpile & I just knew it wasn't gonna work so I ditched that plan (which really
aggravated me since we were so close) but it was the right call. I immediately
headed for Tabernacle, but I did make a pit stop to see the Robots of Route 206.
We arrived in Tabernacle literally with a minute to spare. This was the whole reason for
coming down here: the 74th
Annual Emilio Carranza Memorial Service. Who? Exactly the point. Few people know
who he is. Amazingly, a reporter & photographer from the Bergen Record was sitting
next to my during the entire service! Afterwards I found the cache
hidden nearby. Incredibly I printed out 25 different possible caches, but forgot to get
this one. After much stumbling around, I found it with little difficulty. By now my wife
was not feeling well so we headed out for civilization. She got into a conversation with
her sister in-law, so I decided to divert over to find a virtual cache located at The Fireside Steakhouse.
While there I realized I was SO CLOSE to the Ancora Psychiatric Hospital. The abandoned
houses are literally right on the road there, but unfortunately there was nowhere to park
without screaming "Trespasser!" and with my wife not feeling well I said
"come back another day." Headed back & dropped her at the hotel to rest,
while I went & grabbed Homer (my father in-law) Together we went out & found the Bert Parks Statue.
That was the extent of geocaching & weird NJ'g for Saturday...
We slept real late the next day & we didn't get up till 10AM. I headed out for coffee,
and stopped to find 3 things that I had wanted to check out. First was the abandoned motel by the
Comfort Inn. Right on White Horse Pike it stands out like a sore thumb, as does
another abandoned
restaurant across the highway. Lastly I found the Galleon ship of Absecon.
Got my wife up, checked out, and then headed out for the Insulator Glass house.
Afterwards we checked out a few things we had seen the day before but didn't bother to
stop for. The Temple of Hope &
Knowledge just screams out WEIRD NJ. I thought we had earlier seen a guy put out
a mounted swordfish on his lawn, turns out it was an ad for a seafood restaurant. nothing
weird about that.... As made a u-turn afterwards we both noticed this abandoned building off to
the side of the road, so I pulled over & check it out.
We then decided to check out the Renault
Winery. After all, I had seen their wine bottle the day before, and I've never
been to a winery. Picked up some blueberry wine and a guide to churches & graveyards
in the Pine Barrens. WAY COOL! In the parking lot I spotted a Yellow
Jeep. Read my log. It's a hoot. After that we looked for the Lawn Art of Buena Vista
before heading back to AC to say goodbye to my father in-law. We gambled a bit & I got
hit hard so I hid my own geocache
outside by the boardwalk, seeing as how the other geocache down here is gone. When my
father in-law got off work, we had dinner and then stopped by Lucy the Elephant. That
concluded our long Weird NJ weekend. What a trip. and we didn't get beat by the casinos
either. How sweet a trip this was.
July 6 - I WILL NOT WEAR
SHORTS WHEN I GO GEOCACHING/WEIRD NJ'G. REPEAT, I WILL NOT WEAR SHORTS WHEN I GO
GEOCACHING/WEIRD NJ'G
I swear to god I have learned my lesson. To explain why I am repeating this mantra over
& over, let me tell the story from the start. It began on Tuesday, July 2nd when I
hiked in the Palisades. I wore shorts. The trail takes a right at the NY/NJ border, &
goes down some stairs. I've always known that the trail also continued NW, but I never
explored it. Now I know why. It basically follows the fence that marks the NY/NJ border
but it's barely a trail at all. It's just a lot of bushwhacking & scrambling. It leads
to the old 9W, but that fence is in the way. I had to scale it & barely made it
without getting cut... but I am scraped out in general from the hike.
Wednesday I go and seek a cache that shall remain nameless, & got more cuts &
scrapes on a search that was more difficult then it needed to be. Thursday I seek what
turns out to be an old dilapidated greenhouse. Again in shorts, afterwards I am positively
covered with cuts & scrapes. By now I'm beginning to consider the value of PANTS, when
out exploring. Friday I go out & find the Top of the Hill cache in the middle of the
woods on private property owned by the Curtis-Wright Manufacturing Plant. The cache hunt
isn't too bad but I just havvvvve to go & hunt around. Find some creepy
structures, all of them surrounded by barbed wire thorn bushes. I am now committed to
geocaching in pants only. Oh but virtual caches should be ok right? WRONG!!!!
We headed for Sesame Place just over the border into PA so I decided to hunt some virtuals
along the way, amazingly 3 of the 4 were Weird NJ related! I had previously guessed that Big
Brown Eyes was based on Elsie
the Borden cow. Along the way while looking at the coordinates for 1938,
I realized that this just had to be the Grover's Mill Martian Landing
monument. Sure enough I was right. I then sought Sam's
Place which had to do with a baseball stadium. Hey wait a minute, I recall a
location less cache where you have to find a minor
league baseball team. Sure enough I was right, so two for the price of one,
cache wise. Ok fine, we're done with that & we spend the day at Sesame Place.
Afterwards we head for Great Grandsons. I knew this was in the same general area as
the grave of Abraham's Lincoln's Great-Aunt Deborah Lincoln. I first took a precursory
look around, hoping that Lincoln's grave & the blacksmith shop would readily apparent,
but they weren't and I was too tired to put in a heavy duty search. Good thing I didn't. I
went to the last virtual cache, and something about the name clicked in my head. I seemed
to recall that this was the same name as the graveyard where Lincoln was buried. Not
believing my luck I hurried into the woods and sure nuff, I found the grave of Deborah Lincoln. I
hunted around for the blacksmith shop, and may or may not have found it. I stumbled from
the woods with a huge grin on my face, but my legs are covered in blood from cuts of the
thorn bushes. I swear I will wear pants from now on, when I am geocaching or looking for
Weird NJ stuff. Always. Promise.
July 5 - After work today I decided to hit a few geocaches.
This was so cool. I decided to hit Top of
the Hill which I had sought previously with my family back in March or so. It
was obvious that this involved trespassing and the terrain looked to be above my son's
ability so I called it off. When I went there today I just knew there was something weird
in these woods, and boy was I right! Turns out this geocache is hidden on the property of
the Curtis-Wright Manufacturing Plant, which is located directly next to the Latex
Industrial Plant, which is a Superfund sight! And oh yea, there's some stone structure in
the woods that may have a dead body in it. Read the write-up for more
details.
July 4 - It is so abysmally hot that I couldn't sleep tonight. I somehow started
thinking about the gay
park in Hackensack, and I realized it would make a good article for Weird NJ.
Once I was thinking about the magazine and the places I want to visit I couldn't fall back
asleep (mind you I've got my A/C on full blast & my son is sleeping in the living room
so he can have that A/C keeping him cool, and I'm still damn miserable...) So I decided to
do some site maintenance at 3:08 AM (hey I don't have to get up early today...) realized
that somehow the Get Out
House page was missing so I recreated it. I also began work on the gay park
page. I probably just need some pictures, although putting in a call to Pat Schuber for
more info wouldn't hurt....
After we went out & did some errands, I decided to tackle something that I've known
about for months but just haven't bothered to check out (I've no idea why I waited so
long). Was pleasantly surprised to find an abandoned greenhouse
down by the Hackensack river.
July 3 - Another 95 degree day. After work I had hoped to seek several local caches
but time didn't permit more then one attempt. I won't even say which one I sought but I
hated, hated, HATED it. There was no reference made to where to park, so I wasted nearly
45 minutes driving around needlessly, then I found the general location & it's way
more of a difficult find then was led to believe by the rating. F'ing FRUSTRATING! I
would've found it but it got dark & I had to leave (and I would've had more time if I
hadn't wasted 45 F'ing minutes looking for the right place to start!!!) There's absolutely
no point in even logging a no find since there's no way to say any of this without
sounding like a total ass. I'll just look for it another day. Maybe.
July 2 - Went over to the NJ Palisades after work before the
weekly web course. Looked for & found part one of Artful Dodgers The Giant
Stairs but didn't have the time to seek the 2nd part. Besides it was 95 F'ing
degrees out & I was getting pretty damn tired after just a short hike. I found Hudson
Overlook, located 100 feet away, a somewhat lame hide, but hey it's a geocache.
I then hid a few elements of the new geocaches I'm working on to replace the old LOTR series. As I
walked out along the old 9W I realized neither of the two hides was in a suitable spot
& would have to be moved. Sigh....
JUNE 2002:
June 28 - I made changes to the appearance of the site,
including giving exact locations (well to a degree) of all places featured to give the
site more appeal. I also added three stories, The Hitler Rock Profile, the dinosaur bones found by the
GWB, & the mad rapper
of Teaneck. The first two were already on the site, but I felt deserved more
prominence, and the last is a local legend near where I work.
June 26 - Visited Borg Woods
to verify it was still there. It was.
June 24 - I read at a related site about the Lobster Barn, an
abandoned restaurant on Route 17 in Ramsey. I checked it out after work. This is one of
the first truly abandoned places I've visited, and I was totally unnerved. Part of this
was because I didn't have my bag of supplies. No flashlight, no mace, as a result I didn't
explore the place totally. Even so I explored a lot. Read the write-up for details.
June 23 - I heard my Duck at
Flat Rock cache needed a ziploc bag because it had gotten wet. Went there today
& found the cache opened & the contents all over. It's done for as a cache. I have
to really wonder if my caches aren't being targeted by someone. It's very disheartening.
June 22 - We went to Six Flags New England today. It's in
Agawam, MA, & the park is literally located about 100 yards past the MA-CT border.
Along the way we made a stop in Hamden, CT to visit the Ghost Parking Lot.
Even Dawn had to admit, it was pretty neat. I used the welcome to Agawam sign to satisfy
the requirement for the .... cache.
June 20 - Made a few phone calls, found out the swim club in
Teaneck isn't abandoned. It just looked it. Call it a case of dark stormy weather combined
with an eye slanted towards the unusual coloring my judgment. I went out at lunch &
checked out Hackensack
cemetery. Found a few unusual graves, but nothing terribly interesting.
June 19 - No web class Thursdays this month so I decided to go
out tonight. At lunch I called around and found out the swim club in Teaneck is open. Huh?
There's a huge fence, the grounds don't look maintained & I swear there are boards
over the clubhouse windows. Perhaps they moved? Need more investigating I think. I learned
a lesson tonight. Correction: I suspected this all along, but now I accept it:
overestimate travel time and deal with it. Also live with the fact that cemeteries often
close at 430 even if it is day light till nearly 9PM. The keepers just don't care. Also
triple check your supplies so that you don't get to a place & find yourself without
your camera. Luckily I had my 35 MM (uggg...)
I headed down to the Middlesex/Union area. I found Terminal Way (although I ruined the
picture after I accidentally opened the back of the camera) and then found Rahway Cemetery
to be closed... Found Mary
Ellis & the Rocking
Horse House easily enough. Then I hit several things right in the Edison area,
and here's where my GPS went absolutely nuts. It would be totally accurate then say I was
a mile away, and when I moved, it would move with me, just one mile off. Made the
following finds very difficult because I couldn't rely on it's mapping ability and the car
was a mess & I should've just pulled out my Hagstrom map but I figured it wouldn't
help. Flew by wire & found the Easter Island head,
the Russian House, (that
was interesting) and the fountain
in Roosevelt Park which looks as if it's in the process of being torn down...
June 18 - I went out at lunch today looking for an oddly decorated house
In Little Ferry, too bad it's long gone. The big news was over in Teaneck. I had noticed
this abandoned lot near the Hackensack river, and what looked like a trail weeks ago. I
finally checked it out. WOOOOAHH! This could be big. I found a homeless guy's campsite in
the woods, but also what appears to be an abandoned swim club. This will take research,
but if so this could be a huge find!
June 17 - Well today starts my new web class, but since I get
out of work two hours before the class starts I decided to check out the Sutter House in Saddle
River. More impressive then Rudy Bramm's house, if only for the fact that this guy has a
huge property to decorate whereas Rudy has a brownstone. Also sought midget houses in
Waldwick, but they're all gone now... The web class went well, although I'm going to be
bored for the first few weeks since I know a lot of the basics already (and I'm jumping
ahead to find out about anchors & stuff....)
June 13 - I had my tooth pulled yesterday, and this morning I
took the day off from work to have a bonded cap put on. Wish I had just had the one tooth
replaced with an implant in retrospect... I could've gone back to work but I figured that
was a bad idea. Forget the pain, the numbness alone would make it hard to talk. Besides I
can go looking for stuff! Unfortunately it was raining. They said it might let up in the
PM, so I spent the morning looking for location less caches before I had to pick up Andy
from school. I found the US
Flags, the Zoo, then headed over to get pictures of Stepan.
I had hoped to get pictures from the rear but the traffic was heavy on Route 17 & it
just didn't look safe. I then did a twofer. The First Reformed Church of Hackensack
qualified for the older church cache, and in its graveyard
was Enoch Poor, a brigadier general for General Washington. I dropped Andy at day care,
then grabbed some lunch at White Manna's. I hit the old
Mill by the Garden State Plaza then headed out to West Milford.
STILL RAINING! Found a small cemetery on the corner of Clinton Rd, and discovered that
there was a graveyard in the back of a Nursery School. First though, the Clinton Rd
caches. Bushwhacked unnecessarily to find the Sierra
Bravo 1 cache, and it was now heavily raining. Moved on to Needful
Things which I couldn't find. Passed where Cross Castle used to be. Not much but
an empty meadow now. I had heard that there was a bag of animal bones by the side of the
road, and amazingly I found it. I almost wish I hadn't. The bones were quite clean of any
flesh and I honestly couldn't even tell what kind of animal bones they were. I keep
thinking they were human, but I know they probably aren't just based on the size. I'm
still unsure if I should tell the cops or not.... I got creeped out & took off
quickly....
I headed over to the nursery
graveyard, but the nursery school was closed. I wasn't entirely sure if it was a
public graveyard or whether this was considered private property so I was content to take
pictures over the fence. I noticed the grave of Mr Rude. heheheeh. I think headed for
Split Rock Rd, picking up a picture of Dead End Rd along
the way. By now it was getting late and it was still raining heavily so I didn't seek out
the cache, I just took pictures of the bridge, and discovered another furnace at the base
of the bridge. Hmmm, wonder if Weird NJ knows about both of the furnaces??? After that I
was wiped out, and wet as if I had taken a bath with my clothes on so I headed home and
picked up the baby.
June 11 - I was supposed to go out & look for stuff but
today but the weatherman said it would rain like crazy in the late afternoon. It began
raining as I left work so I gave up on the evening. I went to the mall and then it stopped
raining. Shit. Wasn't even worth it to go now... On the other hand, my domain name
registration just went thru & I can now move my files to the new site as soon as I
make the necessary html changes! WUHOO!!!
June 8 - Visited the Jet in the
woods today to replace the cache container which I found out was cracked &
yucky. I also picked up a hiking permit for the Newark Watershed area. Stopped by the Stone LR to pickup a
log book someone left underneath the couch there. I also wanted to get pictures &
coordinates of the chair someone built nearby out of the same material. Couldn't find the
chair AND the log book was gone, making this a wasted trip. I also checked out the
graveyard that's on Macopin Rd within about 1/4 mile of the downed jet. I had hoped to hit
Federal Hill but there was no time.
June 4 - My GPS arrived back to me today & I didn't waste
any time. Hunted 6 caches after work including the USS
Ling virtual, and Regal
Eagle. Also found the Suburban
Princess cache, & the Boy-Toy
cache, then and Harold's two Wood Dale Park caches: swampy
& woody.
Typical cache hunts, nothing special happened, although this was amusing. My son likes to
step on sticks. I need to help him to differentiate between real sticks and
"sticks" that the dogs leave behind. "Daddy, the stick is on my shoe!"
Indeed. From the good news/bad news category: my company offered us a really good deal on
a web design course. Then the training company decided at the last minute to change the
parameters of the course including the cost. After a month things are now worked out, but
it will seriously cut into my caching/weird NJ hunting time. Looks like I'm gonna be busy!
June 1 - Decided to archive the LOTR and replace them with
more, but shorter, cache hunts. Went to the container store in Paramus for the first time
& got a few containers. Caches aren't actually archived yet, but the plan is in
motion.
MAY 2002:
May 22 - Tried to download new software into my GPS and fouled
it up. Trashed the GPS in the process & had to send it out for repairs. They said it
would take two weeks. Plus this was upcoming to Memorial day weekend. I seriously thought
about buying another GPS as a backup, and to use while this one was out getting fixed. I
finally decided against it. Good thing too. I got sick as a dog and went nowhere for the
holiday weekend. My wife was also seriously ill, so for 10 days we were homebodies...
May 18 - Went to the Geocaching Picnic despite the rain. Left
without the coordinates so I had to call a friend & have him get it off the net for
me. WHEW! Couldn't seek any caches but we did find the Pole Art of Route 23 virtual cache
AND we headed down Split Rock Rd & Clinton Rd. Yes, we were pursued by the black
pickup. Visit that page
for more details AND PICTURES! I also released the MI & MI2 caches, much to my chagrin
I transposed the digits on one, and posted the wrong coordinates on the other due to
sloppy hand writing. GAH!
May 3 - Headed out to Vegas. Here's the page detailing our
adventures there.
May 1 - Interesting day. Had planned to go seeking stuff after
work before heading to the Weird NJ party. Took the afternoon off, but it hurt me rather
then helped me as I had to go pick up my son as opposed to having 5 hrs uninterrupted.
This kept me close by. I found the house with the Swastika on it, then checked on the
Hudson County Wedding Site cache which is gone. I'm starting to wonder if someone isn't
targeting me... Found the Great Woman geocache which was quite cool & surprising. I
then headed for Flower Hill cemetery, which was closed already. Why do cemeteries not stay
open past 4:30 once we get to summertime, when people might want to go to a grave at
night? Looked for Private Rd, which was exactly that, not an officially named road, sigh,
what waste. I then looked for this tiny graveyard in Carlstadt which wasn't there as far
as I could tell. Picked up the kid from day care then headed out. Found Waving Joe's place
but he wasn't there. Was this his off day? Then looked for the Jersey Devil, which wasn't
to be found. The local cemetery also closed... Had hoped to hit Annie's Rd but no time.
Got to Adam's Beer Garden right at 8PM. For pictures & the story see this page.
APRIL 2002:
April 29 - I checked out two geocaches today. One was in a
tiny park & was so rather open that I decided that my MI caches are worth a shot. The
second belonged in Weird NJ, and I've submitted it. It's virtual cache based on a business
called "Psalms 145 Hair Salon". Too weird. I think photographed the Happy Sperm
of the DOT & took my son for ice cream.
April 26 - More damn ticks! I went to Sandy Hook to do a beach
clean-up, found ticks 3 hours later even though we had checked for them. One was munching
on my wife's forehead. Fuckers. After the clean-up I decided to look for the Nike base
which I knew was there. Also found a grave & memorial for British soldiers who died in
1783 during the Revolutionary War. Afterwards I headed out to the Odd House of Weehawken.
Mr Bramm was kind enough to show me the inside. Main oh man, what a weird place....
April 18 - I checked out the Storms and may have located a
relative who can clue me in.
April 16 - 94 degrees today and me stuck in an office sweating
my ass off? NO WAY! I lost the morning to errands, and the fact that I had to pick up my
kid at 1130 from school to get him to day care. I then lost the late afternoon to a
meeting regarding my son's schooling. I essentially had from noon to 2PM, not a lot of
time to seek Weird NJ stuff. I had hoped to hit a bunch of graveyards across Bergen &
Rockland County and that out of the question now. I decide that the Oakland area had a
bunch of stuff in a close proximity, so I headed up Route 208.
My first stop was something I spotted previously which I intend to submit to WNJ: the Get
Out House. It's a small building surrounded by a wire fence, and has the words "Get
Out" spray-painted on it. Located to the rear of a house in a very affluent area, it
screams "what's the deal?". I had to park off 208 then walk back 1/3 of a mile
to it on 208. My main concern as a cop stopping me for walking on the highway. I got
pictures & coordinates and got out with no issues. Next stop: Gravity Hill. Easy find,
couldn't test it because of traffic. I then head for one of several Oakland cemeteries.
The first was one I had seen on a Hagstrom map, but if I had done my homework I would've
realized it was the baby cemetery written up in WNJ. As a result I wasted a lot of time
looking needlessly. I initially didn't find it. I headed for another cemetery down the
road, just looking for anything odd, and I found the grave of the Storms. in the late
1800's, the Storm family had 6 kids in 8 years, and 5 died after less then a year. I'm
sure there's an interesting story behind this, and will see if I can dig anything up
before I send the story to WNJ.
From there I decide to seek out Pleasureland. After fumbling around I located it, played
hide & seek with some construction trucks, then finally just asked if I could go take
pictures, and was given permission. I then realized where the baby cemetery was, and found
it on a knoll in the middle of a tree nursery. I quickly got my pictures, and high-tailed
it home for the meeting.
After the meeting I had about 90 minutes free, so I placed a geocache (2 of them with 3
parts each) in Overpeck Park, and moved the Hobbitt cache to a new location.
April 14 - Quite a good day. Started out by looking for the
memorial to two train riders who died in the 9/11 attacks. created a virtual cache out of
this. From there my wife & I headed west & south. Located the giant tooth of
Klockner Rd, followed by the skinny house of Bordentown, and the bureaucracy headstone,
also in Bordentown. The Cornfield Cruiser wasn't nearly as cool as I had hoped but the
cows in the nearby field were cool. Then found something very interesting. We both noticed
these giant bears in a sand box in a park, but we each knew something was up. We mad a bad
turn, came back and found these two bears alright. One was balanced on his head but half
of it was under the ground level! Took a few pictures, then went shopping at the mall.
Afterwards we went and found the Cookie Jar House. We then looked for the Carranza
Memorial, which we didn't find as it was getting dark, and we ended up drive cross state
to the GSP in Toms River in the dark. I later realized that there may already be a
geocache for the memorial.
April 14 - Quite a good day. Started out by looking for the
memorial to two train riders who died in the 9/11 attacks. created a virtual cache out of
this. From there my wife & I headed west & south. Located the giant tooth of
Klockner Rd, followed by the skinny house of Bordentown, and the bureaucracy headstone,
also in Bordentown. The Cornfield Cruiser wasn't nearly as cool as I had hoped but the
cows in the nearby field were cool. Then found something very interesting. We both noticed
these giant bears in a sand box in a park, but we each knew something was up. We made a
bat turn, came back and found these two bears. One was balanced on his head but half of it
was underground! Took a few pictures, then went shopping at the mall. Afterwards we went
and found the Cookie Jar House. We then looked for the Carranza Memorial, which we didn't
find as it was getting dark, and we ended up drive cross state to the GSP in Toms River in
the dark. I later realized that there may already be a geocache for the memorial.
April 12 - Didn't go out like I had planned. Bad weather plus
I didn't take the afternoon off as I had planned to since the meeting with my son's school
was cancelled. I did however, nail down where two things are located. Called the Secaucus
police and asked where the Suicide guy from Huber St was & they told me I had to be on
Franklin. Called the Gloucester Township Mayor's office and asked where the Cookie Jar
House was and the gave me a 3 block area to search. WUHOO! (Course my wife thinks I'm totally
insane for making those calls, but that's her prerogative)
April 11 - Ohh boy. What a day/night. I had figured on seeking
about a half dozen places in Hudson & Essex County. I got delayed by a series of wrong
turns that ended up making the evening vastly more interesting, not to mention that I was
clued in to some things I would've missed otherwise. I won't even bother trying to
summarize it all here, the write-up
will explain all. Suffice it to say I sought & found the odd house of Weehawken, the
Hamilton Death Rock, as well as the LSP Castle....
April 10 - LET THE SUMMER OF WEIRD NJ Begin! Now that daylight
savings is here, I was able to go after work & get 3+ hours of searching in before it
got dark. Busy afternoon. Searched for and found Frankie Lymon's headstone inside the
record store, very very cool. Sought out 2 oddly named roads in Paterson, which ain't
worth seeing, Straight & Narrow is a pretty bad area to be in for such little reward.
Headed to Montclair searching for Herman Munster's grave but didn't find it. Discovered
that the rant house & the statue in Crane's Park are both gone. Oh well. Still had a
fun night looking for Weird NJ.
April 9 -Sought the Junk house of Upper Saddle River. Road was
misnamed, then stumbled on the right one. I had to go but at least I know where it is.
(and it looks really weird!) Kudos to my wife for realizing where it really was.... on the
way home I stumbled onto the Bergen county radio tree tower... COOL!
April 6 - Found a beery nice couple of graves in Maple Grove
Cemetery... :)
MARCH 2002:
March 30 - Found Lucky Lane in N Bergen. Didn't get to do much
else.
March 29 - Woah! Creep factor of 10. Sought two caches in this
little park on the Hackensack River. Turns out this park was a gay cruising spot, and guys
were having sex in the park. 30+ guys got arrested not too long ago. Major Yech! Caches
were cool, which sucks after I beat the guys up for being too close to my caches when it
wasn't. I also found a Walk to Harold's which was way cool!.
March 27 - My cache in Borg Woods got plundered, so today I
rehid it. I also got my first subscriber to my email newsletter! WUHOO TEAMGwho!
March 4 - Woke up and my eye was hurting, as it had the past 4 days. Took the day
off, and went to the eye doctor. Apparently when I got whacked in the eye seeking
Groundhog's day, I scratched my cornea. Fuck me. The doctor gave me goo, and if it didn't
work I'd be looking at laser surgery...
March 23 - Learned a few lessons today. Don't go to graveyards
for geocaching or weird NJ shit on Palm Sunday! People will be there, you will be
conspicuous. As a result, I found Ray Tse's grave, but didn't get any pictures. I also
learned that if you're on one side of the creek, and the GPS says it juuuust on the other
side of the creek, WAIT to see if the numbers change BEFORE you start hunting down a way
to cross (or worse, just cross it & get your feet). Found this out the hard way
seeking For Kids & Dogs. I finally gave up, to aggravated that I crossed the creek,
then crossed back & got all muddy & wet.
March 22 - Three new caches logged today, although 2 were
virtual. Where y'all from required me to take a picture of myself at a sign related to my
home town. Dawn took a picture of me & Andy at the Bogota Rec Hall, moments before the
Easter Egg Hunt. Later that day I found Memorial for Missy, a dedication to a victim of
animal cruelty. About 1/4 mile away was a cache by RDVH. I didn't have any printouts of
the caches so I had to find it blindly, and I did. WUHOO Team GWho!
March 20 - Went looking for a grave outside the graveyard in
Dumont. Found it right away. The whole graveyard was weird, as almost all the graves are
100 years old. the grave in question is from the mid 1800's, hidden underneath some
shrubbery.... Quite odd indeed...
March 19 - Found an odd named road in Closter (Cemetery Road).
Also took pictures & got coordinates for the monument in Dumont which is dedicated to
the soldiers who passed thru Camp Merritt. Ho hum.
March 16 - WUHOO! A trifecta! I had been given a good clue as
to the location of the Jet in the woods. Today I sought it out so I could place a cache
near it. I had to figure out how to get into the woods without trespassing and used a
garage sale as a convenient place to park inconspicuously. I found the jet within 20
minutes, and hid the cache. I then began to wonder whether or not these woods were private
property. I went to the garage sale, bought hooked on phonics for $30 (what a steal!) and
found out the woods belong to the Newark Watershed Commission, and that you can hike
legally but need a permit. ??? $9.00 for the whole year apparently. Sheesh.
I then went & found the abandoned railway cars. What a fucking freaky place. I was so
glad to get the hell out of there. I had originally planned to make it part of the cache
hunt, but said forget that once I saw how freaky it was around there. Afterwards I sought
and found the Stone Living Room. What an absolutely cool place. It took a while to find
the cache hidden nearby because my GPS had been set incorrectly. I had hoped to hit
Federal Hill but abandoned that idea so I could reverify the coordinates of the cache I
placed. I'm glad I checked, as they were wrong. What a fantastic day hunting down 3
different Weird NJ places all within 2 miles of one another!!!!
March 12 - Sought & found Joey Ramone's grave in Hillside
Cemetery in Lyndhurst. Easy find once I thought logically about where he would be buried.
March 8 - Hunted What a Bridge at Fort Lee Historical Park.
Wasn't an easy find because the coordinates jumped and to go where they led I had to
backtrack the trail and go around because terrain in between was impassable. I actually
was in the right spot, but didn't see the cache because it was so well covered. After work
sought Peck's Walk. Coordinates way off. Glad that one's over with...
March 6 - Revisited Flat Rock. Somehow my coordinates were off
450 feet. When I placed it, it said accuracy to 29 ft, not 450. Weird. E-mailed Bassoon
pilot & Harold with the new coordinates. I'm sick, so I'm taking tomorrow off. I'm so
pissed cause with my son's school closed, he's in day care all day, meaning my lunch &
post-work time are free. I've wasted 4 of the 5 days this week between 2 days off, a blown
attempt at Pecks, and having to revisit Flat Rock. Damn it. Must. Calm. Down. Must. Not.
Give. In. To. OCD...
March 5 - After getting more info from other geocachers, I
hunted down Peck's Walk. Unsuccessful. GAH! Also was advised that the coordinates for my
Coytesville cache were wrong. Double GAH!
March 2 - Placed a cache in Flat Rock Park, located only 1/4
mile away from the Coytesville graveyard. Had hoped to hunt 6 Weird NJ sites &
geocaches. Managed only this and an aborted attempt at Peck's Park. Ended up in a marshy
area full of 8 foot willows, thanks to a clue which had two interpretations, I went with
the only way I knew to. My wife got spooked, we all had to pee and the willows were
difficult travel for my 3 year old. (if this spooked her, I don't know if she'll handle
Federal Hill that well...)
March 1 - Sought out the abandoned graveyard in Coytesville. I
had an idea of where it was but was totally off. Luckily before going out I contacted an
expert on the area who knew exactly where it was. Headed out on my lunch hour today and
found it in 2 minutes.
FEBRUARY 2002:
February 26 - Tried to hide a cache in Flat Rock Nature Center
in Englewood. Didn't bring my GPS. D'oh! Found that caches already exist in Wachung
Reservation and one was just added to Federal Hill. Added them to the site here.
January 15 Around this time is when I created my Weird NJ
website.
February 24 - My car needed a whole mess of work, and it took
4+ hours on a Sunday. As if I needed an excuse to drive aimlessly on a bright sunny day?
Head for the Glider in the woods (which I found, but unexpectedly found 3 more Weird NJ
items. I found Hurd Park in Dover, above which on a hill sits a "mental cage". I
couldn't seek it with my 3 year old son, though, but at least I know where it is now.
Found out where Roxbury is also (it's not on any map I own). Went to the police station
looking for the giant hand sculpture. It wasn't there. Luckily before I went in like a
fool and asked where the statue was, I re-read the article. The OLD police station off
Route 10. Check. After finding the Glider, found out that dinosaur rock is only 3 miles
down the road. Proceeded to head for the giant footprints of Byram, only to find that
there are two Byrams, and the one I was in wasn't it. Sigh. Headed for the Boner Bar.
Found it, but it was closed. A mixed bag success wise, but I certainly have more to look
for next time. I call that a successful day in Weird NJ!
February 22 - Took a wild guess at the location of Manuel
Rionda's clock tower. BINGO! On a bright sunny day I found his tower amongst some really
expensive homes. Shot some video, did this all on lunch. If all cache hunts & Weird NJ
spots were this easy....
February 21 - Try to find two new caches in Saddle River Park,
darkness reigns us in. (will we never learn?)
February 19 - Find Van Saun cache on my lunch hour. Easy find,
lousy cache. After work I sought some caves that are supposedly on the cliff wall of the
NJ Palisades, right next to the GWB. Didn't find them unfortunately. Yahoo tells me my
site is getting too much traffic & I should think about registering for their web
hosting service. Based on the page hits & page size this sounds like total bullshit.
However, thinking ahead to October when my LOTR article will be published, this probably
will become necessary.
February 16 - A fellow geocacher finds burning candles inside
the Zabriski House, en route to the final cache.
February 15 - Removed the virtual cache for the Stone Pony. I wanted to create a walking
tour of Asbury but I lost some of the coordinates. Created a virtual cache. It was a lead
balloon. Will have to revisit Asbury in the future to reestablish the walking tour cache.
February 10 - Successfully find Groundhog's day cache. Get
whacked in eye when I push a branch out of the way & lose my grip on it.
February 8 - Realize never logged into Limpidity 1 cache. Seek
it again to get some foreign money out of it. Someone had already snagged it.
February 4 - Unsuccessful attempt to find Groundhog's Day
cache. Turns out I was in the wrong park. Created another virtual cache out of White
Mana's. Berated in the forums I eventually modify the information needed to provide proof
people visited it.
February 2 - Found Behnke's Cemetery. Surprisingly it isn't
hidden at all, but rather public although it's behind some houses.
February 1 - Added Weird NJ caches that were hidden by other
people. Around this point I finally talk to the editors of Weird NJ. They confirm they'll
be publishing the write up of LOTR in October. We talk for a while about many things
including Asbury. Mark picks my brain about GPS units.
JANUARY 2002:
January 27 - Drove down to Asbury Park because we heard about
the possible closing of the Stone Pony. Passed by an odd cell tower featured in Weird NJ.
Two more virtual caches.
January 26 - Hid my first official Weird NJ cache in Borg
Woods
January 20 - I spend the first three weeks of January trying
to reverify all cache placements as well as moving some of them. In the mean time I
contacted the NJ Palisades to see if what I wrote was accurate. They were incredibly
impressed.
January 2 - All 4 Lord of the Rings caches are loaded onto
geocaching.com. I asked a fellow cacher to help verify a part of it is correct. He goes
out & attempts to find it. 10 days of sheer hell as I attempt to debug the caches. I
eventually find out that what I thought was a height above sea level indicator turns out
to be an accuracy gauge. (in other words I wasn't 400 ft above sea level, I was only
accurate to 400 ft which is to say not very accurate at all).