Foster's Logger Mystery Cache
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Cache is not
located at the listed coordinates. Hmmm, a BENCH! Stop, have a
seat, read the story and I am sure you will find the cache. The
cache is located at the END of the Burnt Bridge Greenway trail. You
are looking for a large round container.
Foster's
Logger
Well, I was going
through the Foster archives and I found yet another story. I said
it was the end of the Foster series. I was wrong. This story was
SOOO amazing and filled with history, that I just had share it with
you.
During the Great Depression Foster was the youngest child of seven.
He was living in utter poverty in North Dakota. Things were so bad
for Foster and his family that his father sent him to join the CCC
in 1935. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a work relief
program for young men from unemployed families, established on
March 21, 1933, by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As part of
Roosevelt's New Deal legislation, it was designed to combat
unemployment during the Great Depression. The CCC became one of the
most popular New Deal programs among the general public and
operated in every U.S. state and several territories. Here are
Roosevelt’s own words on the subject that he spoke during one
of his radio fireside chats:
"First, we are giving opportunity of employment to
one-quarter of a million of the unemployed, especially the young
men who have dependents, to go into the forestry and flood
prevention work. This is a big task because it means feeding,
clothing and caring for nearly twice as many men as we have in the
regular army itself. In creating this civilian conservation corps
we are killing two birds with one stone. We are clearly enhancing
the value of our natural resources and second, we are relieving an
appreciable amount of actual distress."
It was during his time in the CCC Foster learned everything there
is to know about being a professional logger. Foster’s
expertise was as a “Tree Topper”. This was the guy that
climbed up those really big trees and cut the tops off them. There
were many reasons for doing this, but mainly it was done to promote
stability when falling the trees. Basically a logger would make
their way to near the top of the tree, strap himself to the tree,
saw the top right off and hang on for dear life. I sat down with
Foster and here is what he had to say:
“Well sir, I surely had a time of it when
I topped off dem-dare trees. I once had the chance to do one of
them new fangled park rides. 
It was thrilling, but nothing like the trashing you
take when that dang top breaks loose and your body is thrashed
about like a rag doll in a hound’s back teeth. I remember one
time I climbed up there and got me gear all set. I forgotz to set
my hook tight and when she broke loose so did I! I flew so far that
I was thought I was surely deaded. They tell me I flew some 305
feet! I landed dead center in a pile logs to the northwest of me. I
hit dem so hard that they all fell right down on top of me. It
surely hurt, but danged if I didn’t walk away. I was always a
lucky man. ”
Check out the complete Foster's Cache List:
Foster's Cache
Foster’s Rendezvous
Foster’s Puzzler
Foster’s War Story
Foster's Creek Side Cache
Foster's Bonus Cache
Foster's Logger
Foster's Photo Finsh
Fosters
Hidden Treasures
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