ATTENTION: All IMC 3 cache are now in place. HINT
SHEET IS NOW AVAILABLE in the primary cache. Please take one
sheet, per Cacher-Name.
Introduction:
This cache can be searched and found
like any other traditional cache,
but...
it can be the starting point for an international cooperation as
well: This cache is just one cache of a set of 12 caches named "IMC
No. 3 ..." (IMC = International Multi-Cache). These caches are
hidden in 6 Countries worldwide: BE = Belgium, CA = Canada, DE =
Germany, IT = Italy, PT = Portugal, US = USA.
In each country there is a "primary cache" like this one and a
"secondary cache" that can only be found with "hints" distributed
to all primary caches. The 6 primary caches are named "IMC No. 3
P-x - yyy" and the 6 secondary caches "IMC No. 3 S-x - zzz" where x
is the country code given above and yyy and zzz can be any
additional name. The hints for the secondary caches are printed on
"lists of hints" that are inside the primary caches.
As the primary caches are scattered all over the world it will
either require a lot of travelling or - and that is the intention
of the IMC No. 3 - international cooperation: If you want to find
the secondary cache as well, you should contact finders of other
primary IMC No. 3 caches and exchange the hints.
And please don't be a poor sport!
Never publish these hints anywhere! Not in a log report or on any
web side. The hints shall only be exchanged / traded between
geocachers that found the primary caches and want to search the
secondary caches.
The IMC No. 3 team wish you good luck!
Table with links to all 12 IMC
caches http://www.woelper.net/gc/imc-no3.php
The Cache:
The theme of this year's IMC is
"Earth", fitting,
since I'm told that the Greek word for Earh is "Geo".
The Westover Drumlin Field
study area encompasses a group of drumlins which have been
modified by wave-action in glacial Lake Whittlesey and Lake
Warren. These rounded hills have been cleared of natural
vegetation and are not biologically or ecologically significant.
[Heagy 1993] For more information, see the summary at the Ministry of
Natural Resources site.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A drumlin (Gaelic druim the crest of a hill) is an
elongated whale-shaped hill formed by glacial
action. Its long axis is parallel with the movement of the ice,
with the blunter end facing into the glacial movement. Drumlins may
be more than 150 ft (45 m) high and more than 1/2 miles (0.8 km)
long, and are often in drumlin fields of similarly shaped, sized and
oriented hills. Drumlins usually have layers indicating that the
material was repeatedly added to a core, which may be of
rock or glacial till.
There are many theories as to the exact mode of origin and
plenty of controversy among geologists interested in geomorphology. Some consider them a direct
formation of the ice, while a theory proposed since the 1980s by
John Shaw and others postulates creation by a catastrophic flooding
release of highly pressurized water flowing underneath the glacial
ice. Either way, they are thought to be a waveform (similar to ripples of sand at the bottom
of a stream). It is also poorly understood why drumlins form in
some glaciated areas and not in others.
Drumlins are common in New
York, the lower Connecticut River valley, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Southern Ontario, Poland,
Ireland, Finland
and Patagonia. They are regarded as a creation of the
last Wisconsin ice age. Clew
Bay in Ireland is a good example of a 'drowned drumlin'
landscape where the drumlins appear as islands in the sea,
forming a 'basket of eggs' topography. Drumlins are typically
aligned parallel to one another, usually clustered together in
numbers reaching the hundreds or even thousands.
The Hunt:
Parking may be found at the church
N 43° 20.224 W 080° 05.205, directly across the road from
the trailhead N 43° 20.231 W 080° 05.188. Sunday services
are held at 11:15am. You may want to take that into consideration,
when planning your outing. The "Additional Hint" is an
absolute spoiler. Please only look at it if absolutely
necessary.
Two more quick notes:
- There are thorns near the cache.
Use caution when parting what may appear to be innocent
bushes.
- As you return to your vehicle,
from the top of the Drumlin, looking southwestOVERTHEDRUMLIN, near
the road, you'll see a lovely ruin (perhaps a barn) that someone
has manicured into a tranquil garden setting.
Original Cache
Contents:
- Standard stash note
- IMC Stash note
- Several copies of the
hintsheet
- Logbook
- Pen
As this is an international
cache, logs should be in English! Translation in any other
language is welcome.
Don't
forget:
- "Cache in, Trash out"
- Take only photographs and memories - Leave only footprints
(and cache trades!)