Sorry for my absence, been busy with School and family matters. Well the expedition has been postponed due to the team that was to be gathered, cant settle on a set date (school, work, family time conflicts this). I would really like to do this during the winter, I just dont see it happening. Best bet is late spring to early summer of 2009. I do check on the planned areas every now and then, do some woodknocks...but to no avail. I do plan on checking the site this weekend so who knows...maybe something then.

~Cron

Good luck Cron on scoping out the area. Hope you have some activity, be careful out there!! Best wishes,Dave (Squatchfinder).

Perhaps you would like to join us for Ohio III in January? We will be there 3 days you can come down for one day if you like.

Whats the date for the Jan. trip, doubt i'll be able to go but nice to find out anyway :/

Well after several tries to gain access back to the area, I and several of my friends have been blocked by an unknown man with a shotgun.

On my personal experience, I have been able to make it rather far into the woods before having a man hold me at gun point and chasing me a good 2-3 miles through the woods until coming to a seldomly used road, while another 2 men join in. The others have been held at gun point also just for pulling off to the side of the road which is a good 200-250yds away from any treeline.

I have since abandoned the site and plan to start searching for new areas in the summer.

ummmmm...Where you on someones private property without permission?

Far as I know it was the city's since it being so close to a school and an old run down prison, The only area that would cause a problem would be being inside the fenced off areas surrounding the prison. But that not being the case i've seen cops come by and have said nothing.
But there have been drug trades done out of the prison. The person who encounter them by the road side was stopped by a sentry tower which is one of several that litters the general area of the prison.
According to my friend he says he pulled off on the side of the road looked off over his car towards the treeline and the prison and was interruptted by a man coming from the tower with a gun telling him he needs to get away. It wouldnt surprise me in the least if it was drug related, not even a year ago there was a HUGE drug bust in a town not even 5 miles away back in the woods with a few dead bodies of men from Columbus.

Yeah sounds like you need a new area! Wow!

I actually lived in the town where all of this happened at, the school is prolly 400-500m away from where this took place and I lived at the edge of the road beside the school. I have since moved to the next town over, but lets put it this way I still sleep with a metal pipe and flash light ready by my bed side.