Posted: 6/12/2007 6:04:07 PM EDT
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Let talk about caching supplies. I want to bury 3-4 home depot style buckets filled with food, water(and tablets), weapons, fire, personal items, cookware, and shelter. SOmething small to hold 3-4 days worth of supplies + new clothing, and maybe a pack to carry everything. I'm thinking 1 bucket with shelter, fire, weapons in it. 1 with water bottles. 1 with cookware, and food, and the other with personal and clothing. Then maybe 2 or 3 10 gal. containers buried along side to hold extra pure water. Questions: Water proofing-How do I? Supplies-What to pack, what not to? Location-How to pick the right spot? Extras-Should I also bury along side it fuel and water containers? |
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PVC Schedule 80 is your friend. I'm assuming you live in Colorado - that means that the ground freezes so your cache has to be blow the freeze line else it's going to heave - the freezing ground gripping the top cover and pushing it upwards. Eventually it becomes apparent that there is something buried. Water/flooding can also pop a cache to the surface. The right spot? For me it's public property. Back east nearly every square inch of the place is private property. West of the Mississippi there is more public land. For me that's the BLM property which is open to the public for off-road bikes/trucks etc,, camping, and shooting. Lots of open space, and lots of public coming and going - planting occurs after dark when the hunters and riders are sitting around the campfire.  I picked locations off the beaten track - beyond the sight of the casual and only reachable by the determined. I marked my planned sites with a bit of stuff that if someone came across they'd likely steal/take - and after a year that stuff was still sitting out in the open telling me that the area wasn't well traveled. I took pictures of the place before hand and went to gardening. When I was done I replaced the top soil/sand and covered my tracks. I check on the locations a couple of times a year. If a bunch of tools go missing now no big deal - hiking/drivng to the location following a time of need might be disapointing. I've buried supplies which can survive the heat and cold of the desert - tools, weapons, and ammo. Food, water, and fuel I've never felt the need to bury. A bit of water might make sense for me. I have plenty of sealed sterile water pouches that might make for a good cache - I'd segrate the water from the rest. |