Steve's Sidewinder Traditional Cache
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Climbing, moundbounding terrain in the Levis and Trow Mound area.
This cache is one of a growing series in the Levis, Trow, and Bruce Mound areas in Southwestern Clark County. The unique geologic and historical past color this area as one fitting of exploration by cache seekers. “Sidewinder” is the very descriptive name given to this mountain bike singletrack designed and built to take advantage of this regions attributes. Take time to admire the tremendous hand labor used to construct this trail and the stunning vistas located near the cache. Thanks to the Neillsville Area Singletrack Inhabitants (NASTI)and Strangebrew Bike club.
Successful cache finders are asked to carefully re-hide the cache and be conscious of the soils on the steep terrain.
A geologist would call these mounds "stacks" for their precipitous sides have been carved by wave and current action in Glacial Lake Wisconsin, where they stood as isolated islands during one or more ice advances of Woodfordian age into central Wisconsin. The sandstone lies uncomfortably on the Precambrian shield rocks from which weathering and erosion is stripping it away. They are striking features because they rise so abruptly from such a flat surface to the north and east and because their yellowish sandstone contrasts with the green vegetation that surrounds and partly covers them.
A traveler fortunate enough to pass through southern Clark County and for many miles nearby, will see landscape features totally unlike those anywhere else in the United States east of the Mississippi River. The hills of this region are buttes and mesas. They have the straight lines, steep cliffs, and sharp angles of an arid country rather than the soft curves of a humid region. The features to be seen are isolated, rocky hills, which resemble ruined castles and crags of sandstone along a line of bold, irregular bluffs, which soon run into unglaciated coulees to the southwest toward LaCrosse, Wisconsin.
The banding in this sandstone of dark red iron oxide contrasts markedly with white to yellow quartz and is locally called "zebra rock." The iron-cemented zones in pipes, layers, bands, and the like, in places only a fraction of an inch in size, stand out on weathered surfaces as resistant nodes. In places the zones emphasize cross stratification, ripple marks, and fossils; in other places the iron oxide zones cut across them. Where the sandstone is free of iron oxides, it can usually be removed easily with one's fingers.
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