British Army Trail Traditional Cache
Hidden : 10/23/2009
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Miranda suggests you take a left along the log. And she was very wet so I wouldn't mess with her.

Ron Strickland, the creator of the Pacific Northwest Trail Association (PNTA), in the acknowledgements for The Pacific Northwest Trail Guide (2001) thanked the British Army for their role in the trail blazing of the Pacific Northwest Trail.

“In the late 1980s, they bivouacked three summers in Mary and Steve Hilliards barn while they constructed a crucial part of the PNT. Lt. Graham Norton, who happened to read the first edition of this guidebook while stationed with his signals unit in Germany, was struck by our challenge to take personal responsibility for part of the PNT. ‘You had thrown down a gauntlet,’ he said later, ‘and we could do nothing but pick it up.’ His Chuckanut section was so steep to build that he had to station ‘lads’ on the road below to watch for falling rocks. On the front page of the Seattle Times, Cpl. Andy Ewing was quoted, ‘we’re having a great time. Everyone has just been fabulous. The work has been very hard but it’s been worth it.’ The lads named their Chuckanut section Gauntlet Trail in honor of their regimental crest. The name also symbolized the challenge they had accepted from the PNTA’s first guidebook.”

To become involved in the PNT, more information can be found at the PNTA website.


If you hike out here, I want you to find the cache. It is located not far off the trail in a burnt out stump. Please check out the pics on the page and in the gallery.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ynetr oheag fghzc

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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