Believe it or Not...The River Starts Here!!! Traditional Cache
planehappy: This time the container is really gone. Weird since this is not the type of place where people tend to stop. Thanks to all who visited.
Believe it or Not...The River Starts Here!!!
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I wouldn't have believed it myself, but a Ranger took me to this spot right next to the road during a fieldtrip with our school and assured me that this is where the headwater of the Calaveras River starts.
When this cache was placed in late September, this area still had some green but it's hardly the vision I had of the beginnings of the river that flows into New Hogan Lake.
According to Wikipedia, the Calaveras River is a river in the California Central Valley. It flows roughly southwest for 80 miles from its headwaters in northeast Calaveras County to its confluence with the San Joaquin River just west of the city of Stockton. New Hogan Lake is the only lake on the river. It is formed by New Hogan Dam, which was completed in 1963. The dam was built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, primarily for flood control. The dam also provides drinking water, water for irrigation, hydroelectricity and recreation, including fishing, camping, swimming and water skiing.
And this is where it all begins. Who would have thought???
Please be aware of muggles and replace cache exactly the way you found it. I do not know how accessible the cache will be in the winter; chances are good that it might be buried under a foot or two or three of snow.
Congratulations to SonoraZark for the FTF!!!!!!
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