From: Hans-Georg Michna <hans-georg@michna.com>
To: yngwie@triax.com <yngwie@triax.com>
Subject: Equatorial GPS Stash
Date: Friday, July 07, 2000 10:08 AM

Mike,

if you like, please publish the following, in full, abbreviated, however you
like it.

Here's the first equatorial divine stash <smile>.

The coordinates are N/S 0° E 36° (Country: Kenya).

Due to the people who live in the area, it is not possible to actually stash
away anything.

Thus we have the first virtual stash now. Approx. 40 m to the south of the
meridian-equator crossing there is a tree. I carved a short message into its
bark on the northern side in big letters, several inches in size, easy to
read. (Took me almost an hour.) Whoever sends me an email with the text will
get entered into the virtual logbook for that stash and published here and
on my Web site http://www.michna.com/gps.htm and on anybody else's Web site
who wants it. My email address is hans-georg@michna.com .

When you find the stash, please take a knife and improve the letters a
little by carving them a bit deeper to keep them easily visible. The wood is
hard, but a sharp knife does the job.

A small hint-at first I went there the hard way, by pointing my jeep
straight towards the point, off about 90° from the nearby main road, and
driving straignt towards it. It's only a few kilometers, but it took me
hours of rather difficult driving including turning back once and crossing a
river, where I had to drive through the water, then up a steep slope such
that I was seriously worried about the jeep falling over backwards.

After finding the place, it turned out that there is at least one easier way
to get there. Getting back to the road took me much less than an hour. A
good map would help. So don't do it the hard way. The shortest way is not
always the fastest.

But then I don't expect this stash to be found all too often, if ever.

Hans-Georg