Mountain Division Trail Cache

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N/S ? ??.??? W/E ??? ??.???  [] In Maine, United States

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Easy to find cache located along the newly built Mountain Division Trail that runs from Standish, Maine to Windham, Maine.

Park at the Standish end of the Mountain Division Trail at the Johnson Field Recreation Area located at these coordinates: N43° 45.743, W70° 30.997. From there it is about a 1.25 mile hike along the MDT trail. Bikes, horses, wheelchairs and snowmobiles are also allowed on this trail, but no other motorized vehicles (except for trail maintenance or emergency) and especially no ATV's!

The Mountain Division Trail (MDT) runs 4.5 miles along the old Maine Central Railroad tracks from the town of Standish through the town of Gorham to the town of Windham in Maine, USA.The Mountain Division is a 50 mile transportation corridor linking North Conway, New Hampshire to Portland, Maine. It was abandoned by Guilford Railroad in 1994 (from Windham to Fryeburg, Maine) and then purchased by the Maine Division of Transportation in 1997. The trail was built in 2002/2003 with funding from the Federal Highway Administration and the Maine Department of Transportation as the first phase of a project to develop a multi-use trail along the entire length from Windham to Fryeburg.

On July 31st, 2005 we replaced the original container with an ammo box and replaced the missing log book. The cache was originally in a standard 4 liter clear plastic Rubbermaid with a blue rubber seal around the top.

Enjoy!

-Team Trout

Additional Hints ( Decrypt ) 

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7/31/05 Team Trout and new MDT Cache

New MDT Cache contents

The cache container

Original Cache Contents

Team Trout with the MDT Cache

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Cache Logs

September 20 by padlk (8 found) Decided to take my daughter out for a hike and a cache for her birthday. We hiked in from Johnson Field. It was a fairly easy find, I don't know if this is the way it was supposed to be hidden. It was lying on the ground in plain sight, but with a few branches over it. I left it exactly the way I found it, but you might want to take a look at it to make sure. No travel bug to be found. My son took a small puzzle, and he left a dinosaur. Logged from my phone using the Geocache Navigator by Trimble [view this log]

September 7 by spaz311 (5 found) Found with TeamPPG! [view this log]

July 19 by lmcgill (242 found) Great day for hiking! Found easily while out for walk with partner, JR! A number of people signed log book but have not logged on. Did not see TB. [view this log]

June 17 by cache-chaser (147 found) Nice hike with the family. Found the cache and then the boys loved trying to catch tadpoles in Snake Pond. [view this log]

June 6 by darterkitfox (1107 found) Not too happy with the last cachers, DCShipman. They only have 6 finds and it shows. The cacher before them said they left a TB but there was none in the cache and it wasn't logged as taken. Also, the cache is just laying on top of the ground in plain sight from even the trail. I covered it up at least. [view this log]

Current time: 11/21/2009 10:01:23 PM
Last Updated: 9/23/2009 4:00:58 PM
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Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum