Salmon Run 1 - O'er the Water Letterbox Hybrid

IMPORTANT TRAIL NOTES: This series of caches is located at the Brown County Reforestation Camp. You do not need to go far from the trail to reach the caches. The trails are reported to be CLOSED during the two weeks of gun deer season (late November), so check park and hunting schedules before you head out. Also, several of the areas these caches are located in are open to hunting during early bow deer season (September-November). Also, these are MULTI-USE trails, so watch out for mountain bikes. The trails are closed to mountain bikes from late fall to spring, so you may see a big "Trail Closed" bar at the trail head where you park. However, (according to the parks department), trails are closed for biking only, so you are still welcome to walk on them.

Whew! Really, it's not that complicated except for the month of November...

After we began geocaching, we learned about letterboxing. Each has its good points, but one of the things we like about letterboxing is that the children get to take something lasting with them from each find--an impression of the stamp that is in the box. Over time, they have a nice log book with memories of all the places that we have visited, which far outlast any McToy in a cache.

So we set out to do a letterbox hybrid, but by the time we were done, we had carved four stamps! We thought of doing a multi, but wanted cachers to be able to have a letterbox icon in their stat bar. So, do this series and you can have four letterbox finds.

Each of these cache containers is a medium-sized tupperware container with room for small trading items for cachers and a hand-carved stamp for letterboxers. This is designed to be an easy to find series for the whole family to enjoy. It will be a 2.5-mile round trip walk, but the trail is relatively flat and smooth.

You can also find written clues for this series if you'd like by clicking HERE . Read it for fun, or take it along as a backup to your GPSr.

This series of caches will take you on what used to be called the Salmon Trail at Reforestation Camp, but was changed to the Pink Trail because apparently people didn't know salmon is pink. This is a multi-purpose trail, where you may also find mountain bikes and horses.

This first stop will take you to a bridge. It should be fairly obvious where the cache is. We checked the coords several times on this and did get a little variation, so if the way is not obvious, please decode the hint to minimize trampling the vegetation unnecessarily.

The caches in this series include: