Placed new Geocache on Mount Washington

While climbing up the steep slopes of Mount Washington just to the west of Duquesne Incline during Moon's birtday hashrun, saw the opportunity of placing a geocache there. There were many interesting sites, cliffs, caves, overhangs, and debris-strewn wooded slopes. Last sunday, purchased a metal case at a flea market and used that to place the cache. Because there was a public stairway (made of wood planks and posts) from 1910 to 1935, decided to name it "Indian Trail Steps". There are still some of the original posts. They are about three feet high, and are easily recognizable by being in pairs (pink dots in map above). One of the posts still has its original metal hinge with three bolts. Explored the entire area just west of the incline, looking for a good location, and think I found a good one, a cliff with a overhang (yellow dot on map above). The area where the steps switch-backed, there is a landslide there now, and it is pretty much clear of trees and vegetation. The geocachers looking for it will have to start from the top, descend about two thirds of the way down, look for the cache, write an entry into the logbook, and climb back up. Starting from the bottow is not allowed, since there are active train tracks and it is illegal to cross them. When placed, the air was summerish warm. With this cold front coming, will wait a few days before publishing to the general public the coordinates. Since my boot tracks are quite visible and recognizable, don't want the FTFers (first to find people) look for it and get the hint from following the trail of shoe tracks on the ground. Instead, since there is some rain coming (and maybe even snow), will wait a few more days to let the terrain surface settle a bit. Probably will publish friday afternoon, so that a saturday morning crowd can be ready and numerous in FTFing the cache. This being Easter weekend, some of the habitual pittsburgh-area geocachers might not be in town, but more likely it will be a weekend where out-of-towners come back to the 'burgh to visit mom & dad, thus might get some geocachers new to this area. Stay tuned.