Paul Bunyan's Descendants - Another Geocache's Adventure

Geocaches have odd little lives of their own.  You send them out into the world.  They meet lots of new people.  Sometimes good things happen to them;  geocaching has a system of awarding "Favorite Points".  Sometimes other things happen, as in my previous post about a cache that had fallen into the hands of "Muggles".

An early cache I placed contained photos and text relating to the early logging history of the area.  Appropriately I had placed it inside a hollow tree.  Well, one day I got a message from somebody who had found the cache....in the sawed up ruin of the tree.  It seems the entire hillside was being clear cut by modern day Paul Bunyans.  The cache had been cut clean in half.

 You can see bits of the tree in the background.

It was a good cache, well camouflaged as you can see.  But the trees on this hillside were a mix of invasive buckthorn and ash trees afflicted by invasive Emerald Ash borers.  So it was clear cut and will be replanted with native species. 

I of course went down as soon as I got the word, and was able to retrieve the various parts of the cache.  Also to have a nice chat with the guy operating the impressive machine that did all the damage.  It turns out he was a geo cacher himself.  Also a very observant fellow.  "Yah, I was wondering what that was...."

A new location and a new container.  Contents repaired or replaced.  Hopefully the cache will live on through further adventures.