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Just a Minute #13 - New Hope/Haw Traditional Cache

Hidden : 11/18/2007
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Medium-sized tupperware-like container on gamelands on a peninsula between what used to be the New Hope River and the Haw River - now Jordan Lake.

This is one of 10 caches that sub32 and I hid today in this area (in addition to two we already had here). If you're up for a little over 3 miles of fairly easy hiking, you can get them all.

To get to the area, take Seaforth Road until just before it ends. Turn left into a single-lane gravel road just before the last house. (It might look like a driveway, but it's actually a road into the public gamelands.) This is a pretty good quality road that any car should be able to handle. There are a few (avoidable) dips, so you do need to watch closely and drive slowly. The gravel road ends in a cul-de-sac at N 35 42.110 W 79 04.156 which is where you should park.

From the parking area, it's about a 1.4 mile hike one-way which starts on an old road bed, then a trail, then becomes a 3/4-mile "easy" bushwhack. ("Easy" in this case means fairly open woods with little or no underbrush and fairly flat terrain. The terrain 3 rating is only for distance. If this was closer to parking, it would be terrain 2.) If you'd prefer to approach by water, the cache is a couple hundred feet from shore off an inlet across from "Horsegeekless Island".

The cache site is well above lake level, but if the lake level is higher than 220.0, part of the route from the parking area to the cache site might be under water. (Click here for today's lake level report)

The original cache and the ring of holly that hosted it were lost to a burn, though some melted plastic from the container might still be there.

** CAUTION ** This cache is on gamelands. Please take appropriate precautions (e.g. wearing blaze orange) during hunting season.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Orgjrra n fznyy ubyyl naq n fznyy fghzc

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)