Mac-35 Montauk Traditional Geocache
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Located in Theodore Roosevelt
County Park Montauk, NY.
This one is for the adventurer. A fairly healthy hike, over a mile
from parking to cache as the crow flies. With meandering trails,
pitfalls, dead ends and other neat stuff. This hike will bring you
around Big Reed Pond to a part of the park known as Shagwong Point,
where you'll be rewarded with a great view of the sound and a
distant view of the Montauk Point Lighthouse. Bring an extra bottle
of water and maybe a snack to eat at one of the strategically
placed park benches along the route. You won't run into very many
tourists on this part of Montauk. The trails are sporadically
marked and sometimes tricky to follow, but if you can follow the
blue trail until it loops around to the Green trail, there's a
board with a trail map mounted near that intersection. Although
it's pretty much unmarked for the latter half of the hike. Either
that or I missed a turn somewhere. Hence the three star difficulty.
The hide is pretty easy, it's getting to it that's the tricky part.
The cache is a .30 cal. ammo box with a logbook, pen, pencil, a WG$
and some trade items. There's a good sized parking lot here:
Parking- N 41° 04.344 W 071° 55.064
Start by either continuing up the road that's got a gate to keep
cars out or you can follow the beginning of the blue trail on the
west end of the lot. I hope you enjoy the hike, you'll definitely
earn the smiley.
The trail will bring you pretty close
to the bluffs near the cache site, I recommend keeping a good
distance from the edge as some of it is ready to drop off and you
don't want to go with it.
*5/20/07* Moved the cache to a different spot and updated the page.
Now the hike is 220 feet shorter.
*8/27/07* Shuffled it around again and updated the page.
Additional Hints
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