Manhunt, pt2... MacKenzie-Elmer Traditional Cache
Squarehead: overgrown and not enough activity to maintain
Manhunt, pt2... MacKenzie-Elmer
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Reclusive and considered insane by many, John Tornow was suspected of the 1911 killing of his 19 year old nephews near the Satsop river. Retreating into the dense forest and living like a wild man, John gradually worked his way into the upper Wynoochee valley. After several sightings and another double murder, the area became the focal point of an extensive and exhausting manhunt. This was rugged country... It still is, but try to imagine no roads whatsoever and only the most primitive of trails.
This series of caches highlights some of the more notable locations visited by John Tornow and his pursuers during the violent manhunt which lasted a long nineteen months. Almost a full century has gone by since those deadly events, things have changed and places don't look the same, but we have tried to place the caches respectfully and as close to the actual locations as can be.
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MacKenzie & Elmer
Early in march of 1912, lawmen MacKenzie and Elmer found evidence that fugitive John Tornow was nearby in the Oxbow area of the Wynoochee valley. They headed out in pursuit hoping to return with their quarry in custody... Several days went by with no word from the pair, so another group followed in their footsteps with bloodhounds.
After three or four days of tireless searching the posse finally came upon a recently abandoned campsite, but no sign of John Tornow or the missing officers. A few hours later, the bodies of deputy Colin MacKenzie and game warden A.V. Elmer were found in a shallow grave... John Tornow had vanished again.
This cache has been placed near that fateful spot.
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The log sheet bears a clue to the coordinates of the final cache in the series (GC1C6Q3 Manhunt, pt5... Tornow Lake)
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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