We Found It. But...

Fuel caches are like bigfoot...hard to find and no one believes you when
you find one.

Armed with the latest in ground penetrating radar (GPR), the Basler Boys
ventured to the purported location of the missing 2010 Fosdick Mountains
fuel cache. Using a gridded search pattern, the GPR, and copious amounts
of hot chocolate they managed to locate a geophysical anomaly under the
surface of the snow.

Danny probed the anomaly and found something. The scientist-in-training
Chris questioned his finding, as any good scientist will do, and
attempted to test Danny's hypothesis by repeating the experiment by
continuing to probe the snow. With his burly Canadian strength, Chris
managed to penetrate the anaomaly in question, nullifying the Danny
hypothesis. Fortunately, after several iterations of Danny saying 'I
found it' and Chris recanting 'I don't think so', they managed to find
an object unpenetrable by Danny's probe. Then they had lunch...

After lunch, Team Commonwealth attempted to dig into the anomaly to
confirm beyond any reasonable doubt that the cache does exist and was
where it was supposed to be. After digging 5 feet, morale was down
until...a red piece of cloth appeared at the bottom of the hole, which
represents the top of an eight foot bamboo flag pole. For reference, the
poles stood no fewer than 7 feet tall above the surface last season!
However, Chris the skeptic questioned Tim's findings as any good
scientist will do, and challenged him to reach a barrel. After another 3
feet, CLINK CLINK CLINK denoted the finding of the elusive Fosdick Fuel
Cache!

The rest of the team arrived an hour later to assist with the digging.
Unbeknownst to the them, the deviant Tim managed to cover the hole with
a sled and convinced the rest of the Team that we had no luck finding
the cache. Shouts of diapproval and profanity rained down upon Team
Commonwealth until Tim removed the sled to the joyful cheering of G097.
Depth to the barrels: 9 feet. Snow condition: hard as concrete.

The next day using a chainsaw, skidoo, shovels, and copious amounts of
hot chocolate the team braved heavy snow and winds and extracted 9
barrels of aviation fuel. Each barrel took an average of 1.5 hours to
remove from the ice-hard snow. Now there are only 21 barrels, 2 tents,
white gas, and all the year-old biscuts and crackers than you could
shake a stick at. Yummy.

(Photo attached - Danny, Chris and Tim at the bottom of the hole with
the cave behind hiding all the cache!)