SQUATTERS RIGHTS Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 11/15/2008
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


When I was about 14 or so, I lived in this area not to far from where this Cache is located.When summer came my friend Mike and I would camp for days at a time on this pond. We would spend our summer days hiking, swimming and fishing the pond. We would be gone from home for a few days, then when we were running low on food and snacks we would head back home to re-stock & say hi... then we would venture back into the woods for another few days. Times were very different back then. I am surprised today that mom let me go for all that time... She probably knew that there was no stopping me anyways...
After a couple of summers of this an old timer on the road named Orrin told me about "Squatters Rights" I was young and impressionable, but what he told me was that back when this country was being settled people would "Squat" on the public lands and after 17 years of undisputed settlement and improvement as long as you didnt take up arms against the states you would become the legal owner of the land...
The Pre-emption act of 1841 in fact did give certian rights to early settlers across the growing United States...A lot of the old homesteads in this area were settled in just that manner.
I immediatly started having dreams of owning that land and building my stone castle at the head of the bluffs... Then I thought about it... SEVENTEEN years... Thats a life time! That will never come... Well its now been 24 years since the last summer I spent on the bluffs... The point Im trying to make is that life truly does pass by in the blink of an eye... I brought my two boys with me today to set this Cache... My how things have changed. I will never forget the summers I spent on that land... It was great going back there today there was still hints of my lean-to that I built in 1984. I kind of felt guilty that some of the material is still there. I guess I should go CITO the area... Its a beautiful spot and I think youll enjoy the hike...

All that being said let me just say that this is not a short walk through the woods...There is actually NO TRAIL to this cache. You need to BUSHWACK from the Parking area. It is a very easy bushwack because the woods are very open. Its actually a nice walk.

Here are some details to get there...

THIS CACHE IS OFF OF DRY HILL ROAD on the POND HILL RD side.... Dry Hill road runs from rt 202 all the way to pond hill road. The road is not passable without fourwheel drive. My parking reference is off of the POND HILL ROAD side just so you know, its a long but nice walk if you park at the gate on the 202 side of dry hill rd and there is a cache there as well.

If you start at Dry hill from Pond Hill Rd
You will come to an ORANGE GATE that is posted and locked. To your left is the driveway to Profile Golden's
The bushwack parking area is UP THE DIRT ROAD past the gate on the right. You dont go through the gate go by it...
Any truck should be able to drive up to the "Parking area" as I call it. If the road is not passible, park near the gate but DO NOT block the orange gate or PROFILE GOLDENS, PLEASE!

At N 43' 16.944
W 071' 02.906

Start your bushwack you will come to a stone wall then a small brook... Not far now...

From the gate to the bushwack start it is .29 miles.
From the bushwack start to the cache is .33 miles
so depending on where you start....Well you get it...

The cache Is AN AMMO CAN!!!! WOOO-WHOOOOOO!
I LOVE CANS!!!!
We hope you have fun finding this...

The hints are quite explicit in case cachers want to try this after the snow flies...

CONGRATS TO- SCORPIO72!!!
FIRST TO FIND AT 4AM IN THE RAIN
A TRUE CACHER

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fgnfu vf ba n tenavgr xabyy vaorgjrra n ynetr penpx va gur ebpx. Vg vf pbirerq ol nabgure syng ebpx. Ybbx sbe n Yvivat zncyr jvgu n oebxva qrnq oenapu arne gur onfr. Lbh znl nyfb frr BAR phg fncyvat nobhg svir srrg sebz gur penpx.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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