Big Savage Tunnel

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

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The cache (an ammo can) is not far off The Allegheny Highlands Trail near the north portal of Big Savage Tunnel. Park at Thrasher Carriage Museum in Frostburg (N39 39.682 W78 55.495) and bike or hike about 6 1/2 miles to your destination. Big Savage Tunnel is 3168 ft in length (a little over 1/2 mile); *a flashlight for hikers and a light on your bike for cyclists is recommended.
*7/05 The tunnel is sometimes illuminated.

From Frostburg, the Maryland trail enters the 945 ft. long Borden tunnel then eases along a gentle railroad grade that averages 1.5% with very few steep climbs up to the eastern face of Savage Mountain. At the Mason-Dixon line, about 4 miles from Big Savage Mountain tunnel, bikers and hikers are greeted by a spectacular view of their route from the 2250 ft. elevation. Elevation at the top of Big Savage Tunnel can be found by searching the page of neighboring cache All Downhill From Here. Passage through both tunnels is an amazing event. Praise to the Allegheny Trail Alliance and Ontario based contractor Advanced Construction Techniques for re-creating this spectacular structure, surely one of the trail's most impressive showpieces.

The Allegheny Highlands Trail in Maryland, when completed, will link the C&O Canal Trail from Washington, D.C. to Cumberland, MD, through western Maryland and Frostburg to a series of hiking/biking trails in Pennsylvania, resulting in a continuous trail of almost 400 miles from Washington, D.C. to Pittsburgh.

(Pictured) Cycling companions DangerousDon, Basssax, Tomulus and Tomulus, Jr. Special thanks to Basssax for spoting the hiding place for this cache.

Cache maintenance helpers: Tonsil, Eithnie and Luv-to-Hike.

Additional Hints ( Decrypt ) 

Decryption Key
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z
(letter above equals below,
and vice versa)

Gjb gerrf ragjvar,n pnpur fcbg qvivar. (Decrypted Hints)

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Cache Logs

November 15 by brburket (160 found) It took some time to find with the GPSr jumpping. What an awsome tunnel. [view this log]

November 6 by Groggamer (105 found) NIce ride back to the tunnel on a chilly day. Dropped off a Jeep TB. [view this log] Nov 6 and BS Tunnel is still open

September 8 by wolfman20012 (484 found) This was a quickie find while biking to Washington Dc on the trail could not wait to get to this tunnel very nice view on the other side TFTC [view this log]

September 6 by golden phoenix (63 found) This was a nice quick find near the tunnel. The view on the other side of the tunnel was amazing! TNLN, TFTC! [view this log]

August 2 by ladydi3314 (295 found) Jeepers, we went the back way to it. Bushwackers??? Got kinda lost going back to truck. Thank goodness for GPS. Very nice place though. Thanks for the hide. [view this log]

Current time: 11/22/2009 3:59:20 PM
Last Updated: 11/16/2009 3:18:50 PM
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Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum