The Skagit Project #4 - Whitworth Meadow Traditional Cache
The Skagit Project #4 - Whitworth Meadow
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The Skagit
Project consists of 6 separate caches which each hold a clue
to the final cache.
Each cache is a
small cammoed tupperware container with small trade items
which relate to fishing and the great outdoors.
This project covers an area from Silver Lake to Ross Lake. This
series is designed to bring you to this unique place where the
Skagit River flows south and the Silver Hope Creek flows north in
the same valley. Here you will see abundant and diverse wildlife
and plant life as well as stunning scenic views.
The Skagit project caches can be found individually as each has a
log book, but if you plan to do the final, you will need to find
all 6 caches in any order. Under the lid of each cache are part of
the coordinates to the final cache. You will need to write these
down. There is a first to finish certificate in the final.
The Whitworth Ranch was situated around this
area which was about four miles from Steamboat City in the gold
rush days. Whitworth, supposedly connected with the
Armstrong-Whitworths of Britain, lived there with his wife and five
daughters and for a time raised cattle in the Skagit Valley. There
was a house and barn and several outbuildings. The lumber was
milled on the spot. Besides the buildings, the furnishings were
also homemade and very well crafted.
The house had an enormous reception room and stairways each side
curving up to the second storey, where there were 10 bedrooms. It
was a source of wonder to many of those who stopped there, miles
from civilization, while heading to and from the gold fields at the
height of the stampede. Later, the authorities decided to burn down
the ranch to clear the area for flooding the valley for hydro
electric power.
Sometime near to 1916 the Whitworth family moved to Chilliwack and
set up farming on Lickman Road. Today there is very little to
suggest this was a busy ranch, however cachers can still enjoy the
natural surroundings and peace of this place.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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