Wild Bill Springs Letterbox Hybrid
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The cache container is a standard ammo box near Wild Bill Springs, which is about ¼ mile from the trailhead on the “Good Enough Trail.” At 6100 feet elevation, the trail is accessible all year excepting those occasional times when there is an accumulation of snow or when the forest is closed due to high fire danger.
Geocachers will find the usual log and some small exchange items. Letterboxers will find a letterbox. Additional information about letterboxing can be found at letterboxing.org The Arizona Game and Fish Department has a program for developing water resources to support wildlife. Wild Bill Springs is an example. Take highway 87 to Whispering Pines Road just south of the hamlet of Pine. Stay on Whispering Pines to the stop sign and turn right on Manzanita Trail. The trail head is at the dead end of Manzanita Trail. (N34 23.730 and W111 26.216) The trail is gentle and easy walk through a quiet forest. Stay on the trail until you come to the water basin. Be vigilant, wild beasts abound. Check the moist earth near the basin for interesting tracks. Refrain from any activities near the basin that will leave a strong human scent. The cache is far enough away that its presence should not disturb the users of the spring. Satellite reception is very poor here for your GPSr so you may need to use the hint. This is a Letterbox Hybrid geocache. It functions just like any other geocache and has exchange items and a log. Signing the geocache log is all that is required to claim full credit for the find. The cache also contains the paraphernalia for Letterboxing, which entails exchanging rubber stamp images instead of exchange items. Participating in this aspect of a hybrid geocache is purely voluntary. Letterboxing activity requires that the letterbox contain a rubber stamp and something to accept the impression of rubber stamps. The finder also needs to have a personal rubber stamp, an ink pad and something in which to record stamp images. The finder thus develops a collection of impressions from the stamps in the various letterboxes found and each letterbox develops a collection of impressions from the finders. The stamps can be hand made or commercial. If you have the items you need for Letterbox Hybrids, you also have the items needed to participate in finding free standing Letterboxes. More information is available at www.letterboxing.org
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