Ravenna Park Traditional Geocache
brodiebunch: The sun has set on our three remaining geocaches.
We live 30 miles away so it's no longer feasible to maintain these geocaches.
These geocaches have all good long lives, 13 to 14 years old.
We may someday own a cache near our home.
Right now its best for us to be geocache finders than geocache owners.
Thanks for the memories.
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Historic Ravenna Park, northeast of the University of Washington.
Note: be wary of dropping off Travel Bugs here. They seem to have a habit of disappearing.
The Ravenna Park ravine was formed when melt-off from the Vashon Glacial Ice Sheet formed Lake Russell and cut drainage ravines through new glacial fill. Lake Russell disappeared when the Ice Sheet retreated north of the Straits of Juan de Fuca, but various features remained, including the Green Lake drainage basin, which continued to empty through the Ravenna ravine into Lake Washington. The deeper pockets of the basin became Bitter, Haller and Green Lakes. Many creeks and brooks and springs fed into Green Lake, whose outlet was on the east side of the route of Ravenna Boulevard, in a deepening ravine which became Cowen and Ravenna parks.
If Ravenna seems a leafy paradise now, it is only a weed patch compared with the magnificent forest it once was. Even after the original logging craze had leveled most of the virgin timber in the Seattle area, Ravenna had been saved as a haven for fir and cedar giants.
W. W. Beck, the realtor who bought the land in 1887, was ecstatic when wandering among these trees. He named the place "Ravenna" after an Italian seacoast town that was famous for its pine trees, where poets, warriors, and statesmen once strolled in a state of euphoria similar to his own. The city acquired the Ravenna land in 1911.
Please post any VARIANCES you have. The cache is a lock-n-lock with camo'd duct tape, the container is the low rectangular kind. PLEASE REHIDE WELL BUT DO NOT HIDE IT IN THE TALL STUMP THAT IS 40 INCHES DEEP AS THERE IS NO WAY TO RETRIEVE THE CACHE AFTERWARDS. Be sure to spend some time exploring the rest of the park after finding the cache. Be careful of the trails, with the tree cover, they can be slippery. Park in the area off Ravenna Blvd. and head east into the park. Check out www.ravennabryant.com for more park/'hood info/history.
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