Ancient Mountain Trail Traditional Cache
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Walking on the historic site will be more enjoyable than finding the cache. Before you attempt the hike up to Ancient Mountain Trail, make sure you download the brochure from the website posted.
On Labour Day, 1983 a "dormant" creature of the forest awoke from its slumber...lightning awakened fire. In a period of prolonged drought, the long weekend had record high temperatures and high winds. Conditions were ideal.
In the weeks that followed, what has come to be known as the Long Lake Fire, swept across here and burned an area of 25,420 ha (98 square miles).
Forest fires, except those caused by people, are a common and natural part of the boreal forest ecosystem found in the park. Although they destroy what they burn, fires are part of a forest's web of life, rejuvenating the forest and creating mosaics of new and old plant communities.
When the Labour Day fire removed vegetation in Nopiming, it revealed more of the park's rock foundation--the root of an ancient mountain chain, which billions of years ago, was like today's Rockies. The rocks on this trail provide us with clues about events, deep in the Earth, when these mountains were formed and later, eroded
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