For this cache, we'll be hunting a small glacier. Should be interesting. I don't think I've been in this area much either.

 

Enjoy.

Talk about the wilderness, there is absolutely nothing here but Nature in its pure unadulterated state. Looking forward to the flight.

 

Best regards.

Luis

I found the cache after a loooong flight. Take off from the airport and fly due south. After a looong flight, you should be close. After getting to the area, it still took me a while to find the cache. And, this is also one you'll have to be fairly close to for it to register.

 

Did I mention that this requires a loooooong flight?

I took the RV-6 knowing it was going to be a long flight and it sure was. I headed straight for where I thought it should be and I was not far off the mark. I found it fairly quickly considering the vast area that had to be covered. Fun trip.

 

Steve

Took the CC. Found the glacier. Circled around to approach going down hill. Thought I'd land and taxi up, but it registered before I touched down.

In Hawaii, I had a rule that all AOTD hunts started from my "home base" on Molokai, and then I'd return there after making the grab. I pretty much stuck to this routine unless I was really pressed for time. I like the long flights.

 

But Alaska's way too big for that. At first I thought of picking four or five Alaskan home bases to work out of, but that didn't happen, so I'd just pick some far away airport to start from. Now that I have an organized list of all the airports I've landed at, I've come up with a new Alaska routine - I can only start an AOTD hunt from an airport I've previously landed at (98 in Alaska so far).

 

For this AOTD, the closest starting point was Fairbanks. I took off at dawn, today's date, fair weather, in the RV-6. I landed at Fort Yukon, then took off again, heading east along the Porcupine River, then north with the Sheepjek River all the way into the Romanzof Mountains and to Mount Hubley, which is the glacier's southernmost border. I didn't see the cache on my first sweep northward; I was descending way too fast. I turned around at the northen edge of the glacier and went back uphill, and got it. I then went north to land at Barter Island, and got confused. The trees ended, it was just all white. I was sure I was over the ocean, but GMAP disagreed, and eventually I spotted the airport.

 

The flight took maybe three hours; it's hard to know exactly because I had to pause for awhile to put kids to bed and such. I had a lot of fun planning this long hunt, and then executing it, and I look forward to a lot more like it.

Not always, but often i look for jobs from the starting airfield or nearby airfield and take the cache "on the fly" ^_^

I google for the aerocache and add the search area on my plotted course for the job.