Walking the Pipeline Traditional Cache
Craftea's Archives: Sad to say this one has somehow become a target for a bison thief and I'm not willing to keep supporting their bad habit, so I'm archiving this one.
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Unfortunately, you can’t walk the pipeline from here anymore, but I wanted to show you where we used to walk it when I was a little kid. We’d walk from our house to the end of the park and wiggle under the fence. There weren’t many blackberry bushes there then and the pipeline was active. It being wooden, there were plenty of places the water gushed out so we were always prepared to be wet.
The line went clear to uptown, as long as you didn’t mind balancing on the pipeline as it crossed over a couple ravines. It was a long drop down and I remember several times of scooting across it on hands and knees to feel safer. We could go all the way up the pipeline to the Ben Franklin store. If it was a hot summer day, we’d usually be dry by the time we arrived.
There were also a few places to hop off the line and play in the river. My brother and I would catch salamanders, one of which we brought home. Mom let it sit in a bowl of water for a while then insisted we march right back and put it back before it died. After that, we didn’t bring any home. There were lots of trails for young explorers to go on and a lot of my childhood was spent doing just that. The last time I walked the pipeline on this side of the river, it was bone dry, broken in many places, and mostly covered with blackberry vines, but the memories of walking on the slippery wooden slats with the round metal bars across it made me feel happy.
I know these ramblings of my ancient history don’t have anything to do with the cache itself and may be rather boring. However, if you have happy memories of this park, feel free to write about them in your log, cause I’d love to hear them. Also, if you know why there is a large pile of dirt with a boulder on top of it and a tree in front of it just to the north of the Wilson Park sign, e-mail me separately. If you are correct, I’ll add your geoname to the cache page as being an official old-timer like me.
Congratulations to ksch1 for getting FTF! Also to Groovy Bean & Fam -- this was their first find, ever!
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