GC15YK9 Bicycle Tree (Traditional Cache) in Washington, United States created by GrievousAngel

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GrievousAngel: Talked to some surveyors today--a road is going through here. I looked for the cache but it's now on the other side of an orange fence, and I couldn't spot it. Time to archive this one. Thanks, it was fun to hear everyone's memories of the Bicycle Tree.

GC15YK9 ▼

A cache by GrievousAngel Message this owner

Hidden : 9/15/2007

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Size: Size: small (small)

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Easy find in a busy area. Please use common sense and extreme stealth. Hang on to your kids; traffic can be intense (although you can park your car between the cache and the road). Small round Lock & Lock (3" x 1.5") containing a logbook and a couple of small trinkets of the fluorescent stretchy reptilian or arachnid variety. Please bring your own pencil. Probably not a great place for coins.

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This cache is near the site of the "famous Snohomish bicycle tree." The arch in the original Western red cedar Bicycle Tree was cut in 1877, and the tree was an attraction until it blew down in 1927 or so. Later, a replacement Bicycle Tree was made nearby (probably the tree in the foreground of the 1909 postcard below). That tree lasted for many years, although fire-damaged and reduced to a tall stump in its later years. Those remains were finally chopped down and carried away in February, 2002.

If you know anything more about the Snohomish Bicycle Tree, please let me know and I'll add your information to the cache page.

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From the archives of The Everett Herald
1978: The "Bicycle Tree" remained standing today, despite being totally ablaze when a unit from Snohomish Fire District 4 arrived in the middle of the night. Chief Charles Walsh said it was the huge cedar's fourth fire. Located in Able Johnson Park about a half-mile south of Snohomish, it was originally called the "tree with the big knot" and not confused with the larger "Bicycle Tree" that once stood across the road.

Congratulations to Serevanth and Slithy Tove for FTF

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orgjrra gur gjb

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A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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