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This cache is in Forbes State Forest. Permission expires
12/15/2008
About 20 years ago I was biking in the Linn Run State Park Area.
One of my fellow riders told me about "The Bog" located about 5
miles south of the Adam Falls parking area of Linn Run State Park.
After putting our bikes back on the car we drove up the mountain on
Linn Run Rd to the Spruce Flats Bog. What a sight it was! Like
nothing I had ever seen in WPa before. I returned several weeks
later with my camera and took a dozen or so pictures, six of which
I have displayed on my living room wall. I want to share with my
fellow cachers the beautiful and yet unusual sight of Spruce Flats
Bog so I have hidden this cache in that area.
The cache is multi-part with stage one in sight of the bog and
the final stage along Spruce Flats Trail in Forbes State Forest.
The hike to the bog is a short and easy over a smooth level trail.
The hike to Spruce Flats Trail begins with a hike down Wolf Rocks
trail and is much longer and rougher (rocky) trail than the trail
to the bog. The terrian is fairly flat along these two trails.
You can find your way to Spruce Flats Bog and Wolf Rocks Trail
by parking at Laurel Summit State Park which is about 6 miles south
of the Adam Falls parking area in Linn Run State Park. You should
take Linn Run Road most of the way up the mountain. Coordinates
for parking are N40° 07.079 W079° 10.562. The trail to Spruce
Flats Bog is near the restrooms in case the sign marking the trail
is still missing.
Follow your gpsr to the bog and the first stage. (There is no
need to leave the trail to find the first stage.) Enjoy the
view while you take some pictures and search for this stage which
will give you the coordinates for the final cache.
Once you have found the first stage follow your gpsr to Wolf
Rocks Trail (no need to bushwack to the cache. Just go back to
the parking lot to find the trail.) which will take you to
Spruce Flats Trail and onto the final cache, a well hidden .30 cal
ammo can along the Spruce Flats Trail.
A word of CAUTION: You will be in both a state park and a
state forest. In both these places nature is left largely
untouched. Before trying to search in any covered areas make sure
that there are no animals or other dangers inside or around and
that you do not destroy the natural beauty around you,
I would like to recommend the two caches located in Linn Run
State Park for you to do as well. They are: HILLBILLY BEACH and LEAH'S CACHE
You should also consider these caches located very near this
cache: PANTIES IN THE WOODS, GLOW IN THE AIR, BEAM ROCKS CACHE 2, WILDERNESS CACHE, BUCK CACHE and WOLF ROCKS CACHE - REDUX. Wolf Rocks
Cache-Redux can be accessed from the same parking lot as this
cache.
WARNING:
Don't forget that during hunting season you are required to wear at
least 250 sq in of blaze orange clothing by Pa Game Commission
regulations. This is for your own safety.