This is the 20th cache from Team Family Affair. This cache is located in the Historic Gold Mining area Between Hill City, Deerfield Lake and the Ghost town of Mystic in the Central Black Hills. The remains of the old Gold Mines in the Black Hills are disappearing at an incredibly rapid pace; this is one of the very few that is still standing and has been (so far) left untouched. The Gold Mountain Mine claim was first founded in the late 1870s and was an active mine until well into the 1900s. There are some deep vertical shafts in this area so be careful as you look around. Don’t forget to take your camera to get some photos of the remaining buildings, boiler and mill works.
To find this cache: We are limiting the information available (so to be left as a little bit more of a challenge). Once you find the site you will want to use the clues to mine the treasure of another logged cache. The cache is a camouflaged (to look like a rock) green and white ammo box with WWW.Geocaching.com stenciled on the side.
Here are your clues:
- The Golden Treasure you seek is hidden with a great view of the nearby Mill Works
- Gold shafts and treasures are found in this area where the slate rocks stand up vertically.
- The cache is very well camouflaged so you will have to look closely <P>
Items in the cache include:
- Several Beanie Babies
- Matchbox Cars
- A bag of Army Men
- A Flashlight with batteries
- A Ceramic Mug from the state of Utah
- A Gold Dollar Coin
- A New Bath tub Rubber Ducky and scrubber
- A Carpenters Tape Measure
- A package of fresh batteries for your GPS receiver
- And the cache logbook- Please sign and leave your notes, thoughts and ideas
We hope you enjoy this cache as much as we did creating it and please don't forget to leave it well hidden and camoflagued!
-Team Family Affair