Chain Reaction #3 – Avalanche

This third stage will take you to the Rock Island Botanical Preserve.  In the near future, a recreational trail will make navigation to this area much easier.  For now, however, this stage will require a decent hike and quite a bit of bush whacking depending on the approach and time of year. 

Please respect park hours.

There is no access from Highway 100.

This cache is NOT at the posted coordinates. The coordinates can be solved by the clue inside Chain Reaction #2 – Snowball and supplementing the answers below into the clue.

1. An avalanche occurs when a large mass of ice and snow breaks away from the side of a mountain and surges down the mountain with tremendous speed and _______.
2. Some avalanches are small and only a minimal amount of snow moves down the mountain. When this occurs it is called _______.
3. An avalanche is a phenomenon of _______. 
4. Avalanches ________more than 150 people throughout the world every year.
5. Most avalanches occur within ____ hours after a storm drops ______ or more inches of fresh snow.

A = Is the first letter of answer to question number 1

B = Is the sixth letter of answer to question number 2

C = Take the last letter of answer to question number 3 minus 1

D = Take the first letter of answer to question number 4 minus 9

E = Is the first number digit to the answer to the first blank in question number 5

F = Is the second number digit to the answer to the second blank in question number 5

Here are the links to the caches in this series:

Chain Reaction #1 – Snowflake

Chain Reaction #2 – Snowball

Chain Reaction #3 – Avalanche

Chain Reaction #4 – Dominoes

Chain Reaction #5 – Earthquake

Chain Reaction #6 – Ripple

Chain Reaction #7 – Wave

Chain Reaction #8 – Tsunami

Chain Reaction #9 – Protons

Chain Reaction #10 – Neutrons - Revised

Chain Reaction #11 – Atom

Chain Reaction #12 – Fission

Chain Reaction #13 – Nuclear