Bygone Days: Get off your Soapbox Traditional Cache
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Bygone Days: Get off your Soapbox
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A short walk along an overgrown road leads to this old track. If you stay on the old road it will connect to the lower end of the track near the cache.
During the 1960's Soap box derby racing was a popular activity in the Tacoma area. A local Kiwanis club sponsored the race and local kids planned all year how they were going to win the next big race. Soap box derby cars where built and driven by 11 to 17 year old boys (and later girls too) down this old asphalt track that you pass getting to the cache site, powered only by gravity. The local winners could then go on to bigger and better races including two winners, one in 1964 and another in 1966, who became the national champion at the All-American Soap Box Derby race back in Akron, Ohio. The race was popular around the entire country and the 1966 race even appeared in an episode of a television show called Bewitched.
But times change and so eventually this track was abandoned. Nature is well on the way to reclaiming the track and most have long since forgotten it's glory days. Boys (and girls too) have electronic interests these days (GPS and others). But you can still enjoy the site and even imagine what it might have been like to race down the track.
Parking can be found at 47 14.504N and 122 30.012W.
Added July 9, 2007: Now that it's been found a hint has been added.
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