Curtis Cache Traditional Cache
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Park behind Curtis Middle School. (N42 22.886, W071 26.042) Moderate walk on trails to cache - some hills. Geocache is within 20 - 30 feet of trail. Coords are accurate to 20'.
Cache is a Nalgene bottle painted brown. It contains small items and a small log book. It has been relocated to a different spot, further from the muggles.
Thanks to Waldenrun (First Finder back in 2002)for the great explanation of the geology of the area that follows:
Glacial History:
Glaciers shaped our local landscape. The land mapped here bears clear marks of their passage, providing textbook examples of several glacial formations.
Most striking is the 40-foot high ice contact face that rises just south of Hop Brook. The slope marks one edge of a kame plain underlying Pratt's Mill Road and the Curtis Middle School property. The flat-topped plain was built up with layers of well-stratified material deposited by glacial melt-water.
Kettleholes pit the plain, formed as sand and gravel washed and settled around chunks of ice left behind by the glacier. A steep-sided depression remained after the ice melted. The bottom of the large glacial pit behind Curtis Middle School harbors a sphagnum bog. Kame plains are frequently found in association with kame terraces, separated from them by a narrow trench or swampy moat, in this case Hop Brook and its flood plain. Saxony and Normandy Drives occupy the terrace, formed by stratified deposits laid down between a wasting tongue of ice and a valley wall.
Eskers or ice-channel fillings wind through these properties, long,narrow ridges of stratified drift deposited by rivers that ran through tunnels within the glacier or through ice-walled open channels on its surface. Look for a large boulder that perches near the trail winding along an esker top in the northeast corner of the Gray Reservation; it's a glacial erratic carried along by the glacier and then dropped.
There is a large trail system here where you can explore the features or just enjoy the woods all the way up to Hudson Road. ENJOY!
Additional Hints
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