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Daylight Savings Cache (Wahkeena Springs) Traditional Geocache

Hidden : 9/10/2006
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Well marked trails up (1100' elevation gain in 1.7 miles) from Wahkeena falls to the source of Wahkeena creek - a beautiful natural spring.

Daylight Savings cache - because as you hike up to it, the spring will be ahead, with the falls at your back :).

 

Cache was slightly relocated on 9/4/2023 - check the new coordinates if you have found it before.

An ammo can at the gorgeous spring source of Wahkeena creek. Also visit Fairy Falls on your way up! When the trail splits above Fairy falls, take the trail to the right (#420) to head up to the springs. This hike makes a nice loop with Multnomah Falls - we suggest going up Wahkeena for a cool, creekside hike up, then coming down Multnomah, on the warmer, more popular path

Satellites were a bit jumpy so please see the hints or spoiler picture. No bushwhacking! (cache is off-trail at the end, but no bushes need be whacked!)

There was a sweet prize for the first finder!

 

9/4/2023 - relocated cache from the rocky area north of the spring, which had it's canopy opened up during the Eagle Creek fire in 2017, and has subsequently grown a very thick layer of underbrush.  Cache is now much closer to the spring itself, and more true to how we originally placed it , no real bushwhacking.  Be stealthy, you are more observable by muggles enjoying the spring.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[1 - General area] snpr rnfg jvgu cbby ng lbhe onpx [2 - specific/spoiler] sbyybj qbjarq gerr vagb oehfu nobhg 15 srrg naq ybbx haqre n oernx va vg.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)