I don’t know who Rick was, but his friends and family must have
loved him dearly and he liked the same places we do. If you know
anything about Rick, please feel free to share it in your cache
log.
Park at the Sparks Lake boat ramp (You will need to buy a Forest
Service parking permit)and launch your boat (or start a big ugly
hike). The starting coordinates will take you to a beach where you
will find some information about Rick. The info is at the tree line
by the beach.
You will find two dates (8 numerals per date), separated by a
slash. Assign the numbers of the dates, from left to right, the
letters A through P:
AB-CD-EFGH / IJ – KL - MNOP
Do the following math to come up with the coordinates for the
cache:
To the starting latitude, add .GHD and to the starting longitude
add .INO
N 44°00.184”
+ .GHD
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N 44°00.???”
W121°44.724”
+ .INO
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W121°44.???
The cache can be grabbed on the way back to the boat ramp.
You can literally grab it from your boat if the water's not too
low
This cache was improvised on the spot, so the container, original
contents (pocket change and some sea shells) and log book were
cobbled together with whatever I had on hand, including my trusty
survival duct-tape pencil. Please don’t take the pencil as I’ll try
to swap it out later this year.
Terrain Rating = 5 because Geocaching.com recommends that caches
which require special equipment (boats) be rated as such. If you do
this one on foot, it'd probably be around a 3. All in all it's an
easy paddle and fun for the whole family.