Deep Freeze Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 1/5/2005
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
4.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Located right next to the petrified canyon cache, but 166 feet higher in elevation. Tough climb, but no special equipment needed. Drive on by if the ground is wet.

The day I set this cache it was 26 below zero on the thermometer. Thus, the name. This cache is located on top of a butte overlooking the petrified canyon and affording a stunning view of the badlands. However, there is a price of admission to this view: it’s a heck of a climb. I decided on this location after not encountering any physical challenges in any other caches I have sought.

If you are on vacation and have plans other than to spend time in an emergency room or morgue, you might want to just be satisfied with the petrified canyon cache. On the other hand, if you are a graduate of the Army’s Ranger school, are not afraid of heights, don’t have a lick of sense and your will is up to date; then this might be the cache for you.

The cache is sitting under the sage bush that you can clearly see from flat ground. There is a huge rock on it to keep it from blowing away. When I started my climb the Tupperware container had a chem. light, a Georgia Bulldogs TB, chemical heat pads, a simpson’s toy, a P38, a rawhide chew toy for your pooch and a logbook and pencil. Alas, I dropped the stinking cache on my climb and lost some of the contents in the deep snow. Spent half an hour gathering up all the stuff I could locate on the face of a very steep incline. If you happen to find the chew toy, heat pad, P38 or pencil on your climb, please put them in the cache. Bring a pen or pencil because I lost mine on the climb!

DANGERS: The climb is steep. If you fall you will probably be heading to the hospital. (38 miles east on I-94 in Dickinson is the closest.) There is no safe or easy route. Snakes are in the area. If you see a snake on this climb it will probably be a face-to-face encounter. Rattlesnakes are far better equipped than humans to prevail in a face-to-face encounter. This is the heart of the home range of an adult mountain lion. I have seen it’s tracks at the base of this butte and have seen the track maker about a mile away from here. Fortunately, mountain lions are nocturnal. If you are climbing this butte in search of my Tupperware container at night, then it is probably a good thing that this mountain lion takes you out of the gene pool.

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