Mt. Minsi Letterbox | Zhanna's Adventures

All year I’ve wanted to get to this letterbox, but I spent most of my time in Delaware Water Gap this year across the way on Mt. Tammany. In fact, this was my first trip to Mt. Minsi since late last summer. (Of course, even though finding the letterbox was my main purpose for this hike, I was distracted by the possibility of also locating some benchmarks, and almost walked out the door without the letterbox clues. Typical.) Aaron came along on this one, unsure how he would feel about GPS-free hunting. We took the AT up the mountain, as usual, and had no trouble finding the box. It’s been there almost four years, and it’s in great shape! I was surprised to see that Geeoh had found it, as well. I didn’t recognize any of the other names. (We were astounded by the log from “Wendy from RI” who claims to have done like 1,000,000+ miles of solo hiking and backpacking. Well, maybe not that much, but once it gets over 30,000, does it make a difference?!) Finally, we had a nice day to do our stamp-trading. It really made a big difference. Now, if I could only find those benchmarks…

Zhanna at the second overlook on Mount Minsi. That's Mount Tammany in the background. There's a letterbox and several geocaches over there; I've found the caches, but I haven't looked for the letterbox yet.

Fall view from the powerline cut very near the letterbox. Too bad those powerlines are there!

The letterbox itself. It was pretty easy to locate, and is in great shape after almost four years! It will need a new logbook soon, though.

The view from a little further up the trail. No powerlines this time.

Stone steps that remain from the old fire lookout tower here.

This is the remnants of an old support for the tower.

Today's Geocaches

Almost a Driveby

Owner: Cabin Fever and renegadejane
Location: N 41° 01.602' W 075° 30.293'
Log Type: Note
Date: 20 October 2002
Original Geocaching.com listing

This is a virtual geocache with no physical container to locate.

Zhanna's Log

Hi, Jane! Checked on your cache today – it’s still there. 😉 The views were extraordinary.

Zhanna

Pocono Cold Air Cave

Owner: Freeside and Helen
Location: N 40° 57.818' W 075° 07.336'
Log Type: Didn't find it
Date: 20 October 2002
Original Geocaching.com listing

This is a virtual geocache with no physical container to locate.

Zhanna's Log

Hi,

Maybe things aren’t looking so good for this cache. Aaron and I visited in late afternoon and while we didn’t search extensively for the cache (due to the huge numbers of tourists who kept arriving on the Water Gap Trolley), we did poke around a bit and came up with nothing. The clue was very precise, but we found nothing in the indicated location, and we did our share of rock-lifting as well. Maybe jon3bek hid it so even cachers wouldn’t find it?! 😮 I enjoyed exploring the little cave anyway, and if the cache is still here, I’ll be back!

Zhanna and Aaron

View from above. It was a beautiful day on Mt. Minsi!