To highlight King County’s massive trail/park system for the folks who have just moved to the area and folks visiting the “Geocache Motherland”, I want to offer up this offset style cache that not only highlights the massive trail system the county provides but also to get folks out and enjoy a tiny fraction of one of the larger trails in the county’s trail system.
Your caching journey begins at the parking coordinates listed below. From there, a very short walk to the listed coordinates above, where once you arrive you get to “exercise the brain” before embarking on the trail that lies in front of you. Once you have arrived as the posted coordinates, answer the following questions from the poster on the south side kiosk to get the final coordinates for cache site. The questions are as follows:
The only trail named after an interstate highway (highway number -89)= ___ A
The "colored" river trail's second digit of its length -5 = ___ B
The only trail with a three digit number in its title, adding 1 to its second digit = ___ C
The length of this "pipeline" trail divided by 2 = ___ D
The length of the Preston-Snoqualmie Trail ___ E
The total miles of this canal trail times 2= ___ F
N 47 28.ABC
W 122 14.DEF
Once you have “filled in the blanks” and have obtained the coordinates for your final destination, you will have a nice little walk ahead of you. Don’t worry. This is a flat trail. This trail is perfect for kids, strollers bicyclists, joggers, etc. However, I will caution that the GZ can be muddy and a bit slick to get to as you will have to leave the paved trail. For that reason, keeping an eye on the little ones at that stage of the journey would be wise.
At GZ, it may be muddy and there is some blackberry vines.For this reason, I have set the terrain level as a "2", There a bit of a stealth issue since this trail is pretty busy and there is an office build very close by.
Enjoy what our area has to offer. If this little walk has inspired you to actually check out some more trails, by all mean go for it! King County has a nifty web site where you can download maps of their trail system. I am sure that are lots of caching places that have yet to be discovered!
Enjoy!
CONGRATS TO SCOUTING4EVER FOR THE FTF!
UPDATE 3/12/09 - People are coming up with different coordinates for the final location. My etrex was a bit bouncy. Please note that the final coords will not get your feet wet, but you will be a stones throw from the water. THERE IS NO NEED DURING YOUR CACHE HUNT TO CROSS THE RIVER. You will be on the same side of the river as your startingpoint....
