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"Ice on 285"
This is a very creative cache (one of a pair) where the cache itself moves from find-to-find. The "Ice" cache is supposed to move counter-clockwise around I-285 no more than five miles at a time. When you find it, you re-place it in another spot, inside the perimeter, no more than five miles from where you found it. That's the good news. The bad news? We couldn't find it. We reached the coordinates w/o difficulty and spent an hour looking and never found it. When Rich reported that to the owner (thinking it had been moved w/o logging or that we were inept) he found there was an error in one of the coordinates. But it was so close that we should have found it. We'll look again another day.
This is one of the two we actually found today. What a beautiful spot! The day was lovely (as I said) and the air was clear. From this spot you get the best view of the Atlanta skyline that can be seen as well as a great view of Kennesaw mountain. Great spot. This is a multi-cache where the first coordinates take you to a place where you use numbers found there to create coordinates for the second (and so forth). The final coordinates were a bit off (IMO) but we found it anyhow.
This was placed just before Halloween and we would have been the first to find it -- if we found it. The parking coordinates were bang-on but they were outside an 8' chain link fence with a chained gate. They expect you to scale the fence? Into private (though abandoned) property? We didn't think so and gave this one up.
Rich wrote to the owner and, sure enough, we were in the right place. We don't think this is one that should be there. Private property, no trespassing signs, etc. Not for us!
"The Battle of Peachtree Creek"
I'm embarrassed to say I didn't even know this place existed. Right in Buckhead it's a Civil War battlefield and it's huge. This, too, is a multi-cache. We never round the second coordinates but the text on the cache page was good enough that we guessed where the third set would be -- and they were there. Then the comedy of errors began in earnest. I thought we were looking for the "actual" cache in a hole under a rock ledge. We were actually looking for the fourth set of coordinates (attached to a tree) so we wandered aimlessly looking for a rock ledge instead of a tree. Rich finally found the coordinates (which he wasn't actually looking for) and wrote them down -- wrong. We spent another 45 minutes looking in the wrong place for the rock ledge. Went back to the tree, got the coordinates correctly (wear your %#%$&**($ glasses next time, Rich!) and found it handily.
Bill Donovan (Trailerman) had classified this as one of his top ten. I agree.