I found my first cache on May 7, 2006, so I decided to name this, my first hide, Second Anniversary in celebration of all my
geocaching adventures.
This hunt will take you to Horn Rapids Park where you will find a kiosk of interesting information. The listed coordinates are for the parking lot near the kiosk not for the cache site. Read the signs and fill in the blank spaces below. Then transfer them IN ORDER into the coordinate spaces and go find the cache which is located about 1/3 mile from the kiosk. The cache is a 4x3x3 Lock-N-Lock. Bring your own pen.
a) Camp Columbia employed ____0 guards.
b) 5___69 tons of fruit were sold by Camp Columbia
c) Chinook salmon
live in the ocean ___ to 4 years.
d) The Darkling Beetle lives in vegetation zone ___.
e) The Common Mullein grows in vegetation zone ___.
f)
Tapteil Greenway which maintains the park has P. O. Box ___007 in Richland.
g) The Great Blue Heron is found in vegetation zone ___.
h) Chinook salmon lay up to 7000 eggs in
a redd which can cover up to ___50 sq. feet.
i) Rock Buckwheat grows in vegetation zone ___.
j) Salmon eggs hatch in ___0 to 150 days.
k) Coho salmon live in the ocean 1 to ___ years.
l) The Camp Columbia site was transferred to Benton County and became Horn Rapids Park in 196___.
m) The Longmire Wagon Train reached the Puget Sound in ___853.
n) The Yakima River was crossed by the Longmire Wagon Train ___ times between the mouth of the Yakima and Horn Rapids.
o) The fruit raised by Camp Columbia was sold for $___00,000.
Coordinates: N (a)___(b)____. (c)____ (d)___. (e)____ (f)___ (g) ____
W (h) ____ (i)____(j)____.(k)____ (l)____. (m)___(n)____(o)____
Once you've found this cache, it's an easy walk to
No Disappointment Cache. Also a great hike from the parking lot to
Touch Sensitive - a Tribute to acfunk and
Horn Rapids C&D. You could park closer to the later two but the hike around the Horn is worth the effort. To the south there a whole series of caches following the river. The closest is
Horn Rapids Trail - 31.