A Discarded Kettle EarthCache
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This earthcache is located at Stage's Pond State Nature Preserve.
Located in Pickaway County 5 miles north of Circleville on U.S.
Route 23; proceed 1 1/2 miles east on Hagerty Road to the preserve
parking lot and trail system.
Stage's Pond State Nature Preserve, dedicated August 23, 1974, is
nature's own monument to the great ice fields which once covered
most of Ohio 17,000 years ago.
Stage's Pond is an example of one of the distinctive features of
glaciated areas, a kettle lake. As the glacier receded from this
part of present-day Pickaway County, an immense chunk of ice broke
free and remained behind to be covered with accumulating sands,
gravels, and other glacial debris washing off the melting glacier.
When the land-locked ice mass finally melted, it left a great
depression in the landscape. Parking is at 39 Deg. 40.137N 082 Deg.
56.082W. For more info check out;
http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/dnap/location/stages.html and
http://www.stagespondnaturepreserve.info/index.htm
The coordinates will take you to the information board of the
preserve. Be sure to pick up a free trail map at the info board.
In order to log a find for this earthcache you must fulfill the
folowing requirements:
1) Make your way to the Kettle Lake Waterfowl Blind and post a
picture of yourself and your GPS at the blind. (Be advised, this is
NOT the large brown blind near the information board.)
The following is a picture of the gray Kettle Lake Blind;
You will need to take either the Meadow Trail or the Moraine Trail
to reach the Kettle Lake Trail and Blind. The trail is well marked
with little change in elevation.
2) At the blind, enter the waypoint 39 Deg. 40.547N 082 Deg.
56.227W into your GPS. This should be in close proximity to the
opposite shore from the blind. You will need to determine the
distance from the blind to the above supplied waypoint. This should
give you a measurement of the width of the lake. Email me your
calculation.
Logs that do not meet the above listed conditions will be
archived.(Sorry, rules are rules.) Please abide by all Ohio Nature
Preserve Regulations. Thanks to the Preserve Manager for making
this earthcache possible.
Developed by a Platinum Earthcache Master
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