Honey, I Think I Saw the Paddler! Traditional Cache
Honey, I Think I Saw the Paddler!
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It may be quite a drive, but if you like views this cache will not disappoint you! The roads are bumpy and the cache is well hid, but you will have fun on this one.
*** Omni Magazine, Patrick Huyghe wrote:
On Memorial Day, 1985, Julie Green and her friends set out for an enjoyable afternoon on Idaho's Lake Pend Oreille--and sailed into the middle of a 50-year-old mystery. In the bright light of midafternoon, the teacher from Coeur d'Alene reports, a large V-shaped wave crossed about 200 yards in front of her boat. "There was clearly something in the water ahead of us that was undulating, coming in and out of the water," she recalls. Green dropped her engine and gave chase, but the gunmetal-gray object, which rivaled the length of her 22-foot boat, soon outdistanced her.
Did Green and her crew see the lake's legendary lake monster, the Pend Oreille Paddler? Or a giant sturgeon? Or something quite different, a manmade secret that the U.S. military has guarded since World War II?
In this picture-postcard lake, twice as deep as Scotland's Loch Ness, the U.S. Navy has developed and tested the latest in submarine technology for the past 50 years--almost exactly as long as reports of the Pend Oreille Paddler have been surfacing. ***
Weather you believe in the Pend Oreille Paddler or manmade secrets, breaking the lakes surface, this cache location will give you a beautiful view, so let your imagination run wild. Pack up the family and a picnic lunch for a day of back road cache fun.
Access:
From Coeur d’Alene travel North on I-95 and take E. Bunko Road and follow the signs and Natl. Forrest Road #278 leading to Lakeview, continue on Natl. Forrest Road #278 until you reach the cache.
From Clark Fork take the S. River Road to Johnson Creek Road until it turns into Natl. Forrest Road #278, continue on Natl. Forrest Road #278 until you reach the cache.
When you reach the area near the cache park at 47 59.708N 116 25.720W, this is the only wide spot available for parking. Then be careful of traffic and walk to the mile post 17 to begin your search, access is much easier from this point. Please try not to climb up the bank and leave areas for erosion, entering at the mile post will allow you to follow some light deer trails near the cache.
The cache is small ammo can with a Geocache sticker on it. I placed a pocket knife, a small book on Native American writings, a sun sticker and a geocaching-logbook.
Omni Magazine was discontinued and their site was taken down. Patrick Huyghe story about the Pend Oreille Paddler might be found by searching the archives of your nearest library.
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