Rainbow Express Traditional Geocache
New York Admin: I regret to report that the cache owner has not responded to the prior note about this disabled cache. I'm archiving it opening the area up to others.
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New York Admin
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This Cache is found just off the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail. http://www.gorailtrail.org . The rails have long since been scrapped and the bed is great for hiking or biking. The cache is in a dark green Ammo Can.
You can park in a public parking lot in Rosendale at N41 deg 50.478, W74 deg 5.237. Or a shorter walk is by doing what the locals do and drive thru the Tilson cemetery and park near a local used trail at N41 deg 50.006, W74 deg 4.829. Please make sure you cover this cache up good again in the same manner as the hint, there is a lot of foot traffic in this area. This cache will bring you to the natural playground of my youth which dates back to the summer of '69 for me when I first came to this area. The area where this cache is loaded with hidden mines, ice caves, Indian shelters, fossils, crystals, arrowheads, trout stream, blue berries, craggy cliffs, quartz crystal lined deep crevices and even found a patch of wild ginseng once. It was being exposed to this area in my early youth that promoted the sense of adventure that inspired me to go onto so many more life adventures. The area though now quite overgrown was very open during my youth due to the many fires that had burned the Shawangunks, many to promote the growth of blueberries and huckleberries. Appx 150 yards as the crow flies due East from the cache is a ice cave that goes down appx 1000 feet. The entrance is appx 15 feet high so you can't miss it. You can shine a bright flashlight down it in early July and still see the ice. Near the cache was our local skinny dipping hole which was in pristine shape back in the late 60's and early 70's when it was used as the water source for the village of Rosendale. The Rainbow Express Cache contains a mini glue gun, magnifying lens, magnetic clip, flash wear necklace that lights up, water pistol, toys and the Travel Bug also called Rainbow Express. The TB is the Clevis Pin from the backpack I used to hike the Appalachian Trail (AT) with. The name Rainbow Express comes from the trail handle I used in 1980 when I hiked the AT in it's entirety. The name was given to me on the trail by some Thru-Hikers who saw my colorful patches sewn onto my backpack. Back in 1980 on the AT we had our own type of travel bug called the Pink Slipper. The Pink Slipper started as a joke when someone hid an old furry pink slipper into someone's pack. It ended up being moved around from pack to pack without the bearer knowing it till they found it. I first heard of the story from other Thru-Hikers at a hostel in Gorham, NH. The next day while digging deep into my pack I found the slipper. Of course I hid it a few days later in someone else's backpack. It was written up extensively in the leanto log books that year in the Northeast where it spent much of it's time.
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