The World Ain’t The Same As It Use To Was #1 Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 7/19/2008
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

About 15 feet off the frontage road.

If you're going East, Take the Gold Run offramp. You will have to go left, over the Interstate, then follow the frontage road to the right. Recross the Interstate and continue to follow the frontage road, to the left. There is an excellent parking place just before the metal gate. To return to the Interstate going East don't recross the interstate, there's a on-ramp before you cross the Interstate.

If you're going West, get off at the first Gold Run exit, turn Left and go over the Interstate, and follow the frontage road to the left. To return to the Interstate going West, you will need to cross the Interstate, follow the frontage road to the left a short distance and there will be a onramp.

The dry bed of an Eocene river crosses Interstate 80 past Gold Run. The roadside records the abrupt change. As you travel up you go into the metavolcanic rock and out of the auriferous gravels. Look up about 100 feet at the escarpment that resembles an excavated road cut….It is not. This is the understory of the railroad land that was not mined with hydraulics.
Now look at the valley to the south. When the pioneers first came to this land, there was no valley there. What you see is the result of hydraulic mining. The near end of the valley is now three hundred feet below the trees above you. The far end of the valley is nearly twice as deep. A mile wide, this was a valley that had not been. All of it has been water-dug, by high-pressure hoses. It was a man made landscape on a biblical scale. The interstate is located more then halfway up these gravels. In a five-year period the North Bloomfield Gravel Company washed down three and a quarter million yards of gravel to get $94,250. Eventually, the company was moving twelve million parts of gravel to get one part of gold.

The name of this cache is in honor of Professor Charles Dailey at Sierra College in Rocklin. His statement is the name of this cache, which he always quotes to us avid learners on field trips.

To FTF there are four George Washington's.

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