New Power Trail in CA 500 Caches

pacholik · Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 1330 Location: Ontario, CA

Here is one of them GC24RF0 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=8394640f-550c-43e2-a0a4-5b5a9e852fd5

From Baker to the state line.

Here is a small view of some of the caches. They are .1 from each other all alone the 15 Freeway.

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addisonbr · Joined: 01 Mar 2008 Posts: 89 Location: New York, New York

That's interesting. I was under the impression that reviewers were discouraging power trails over the last couple of years. Do you have any insights into the story behind this one?

pacholik · Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 1330 Location: Ontario, CA

Nope I was surprised to see it as well. This goes against the guidelines but they seem to change a lot. They are all hidden under a group name too.
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addisonbr · Joined: 01 Mar 2008 Posts: 89 Location: New York, New York

I'll bet you it was placed so that people could break the record for caches in a 24-hour period, which IIRC is around 500.

ChildOfAtom · Joined: 16 Sep 2007 Posts: 368 Location: NY, NY

I guess not being a numbers guy shows a bit here because that seems like ZERO fun to me.
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CoronaKid · Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 936 Location: Corona, CA

pacholik · Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 1330 Location: Ontario, CA

The caches are not on the 15 FWY. They are on side and frontage roads. That is why 4x4 and high clearance is recommend.
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CoronaKid · Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 936 Location: Corona, CA

ePeterso2 · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:12 am Post subject:

Not only on frontage roads - on frontage roads of high-voltage power lines. In fact, it looks like an awful lot of them have been placed at the towers themselves! Talk about a real "power trail"!

I'm surprised that this series was approved. I know that the power towers in Florida have very large and visible No Trespassing signs on 'em. I cannot imagine that the power company wants geocachers poking around on their equipment.

-eP
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Electric Water Boy · Joined: 22 Oct 2008 Posts: 400 Location: Selma, Tx

The power trails I've done were limited to 100 caches. They weren't all down the same road. And they were't all 500-600 ft across. The last two that I did would have been completely boring except that the scenery changed, and the names of the caches were all different. That made a difference at the end of the day (which I'll come back to). Most of the containers were camoed film cannisters.

Although I had a great time with an awesome person, and saw a lot of neat sites, it would have been hard to come up with original logs for these caches had they not all have indiviual names. Sure, there was the series name, OOPS and LIH (which stands for Leave It Home), but they had other names after that. I will always remember 1,000 gallon water heater. There 200 caches total between those two series. I got to write 200 individual logs. Where they read? I don't know. But I sure felt better writing those logs than 1 good one at the begining and 99 TFTCs after that.

pacholik · Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 1330 Location: Ontario, CA

They just keep adding to the trail. There are now at least 60 more on the NV side now. So it looks like there is going to be a trail that is 1000 caches long.

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