St. J & LC (Saint Johnsbury and Lake Champlain RR) Traditional Cache

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NHPride: Due to unresolved issues, this cache has been archived. Please pick up any remaining cache bits as soon as possible.

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NHPride / Rich
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Hidden : 11/2/2009
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

A short walk along what is now a Vermont Agency of Transportation right of way will bring you to the vicinity of this biggish Lock N Lock container.

Hobos, tramps, and other kings of the road had nicknames for railroads, usually based on their initials. They called the St J and LC the Saint Jesus and Late Coming. It's certainly late coming these days because the tracks have been removed!

When my mother was just a girl, she would walk a trestle in Jericho (see Nightskyk9's GC10XCB) and to find this cache, you will walk a trestle. There are four key differences:
--Her trestle was long and this one was short.
--Her trestle was high enough so a fall would probably have killed her; this trestle is a couple of feet above a sluggish stream. (And the sleepers are only about 3 inches apart.)
--She also could have been killed by a train that barreled around a curve to find her and her friends on the trestle with no time to stop. No trains run on the St J & LC anymore. At worst, you might encounter a chipmunk.
--My mother walked the trestle mostly because it was forbidden and thrilling--it wasn't even on the way to anywhere she wanted to go. You need to walk this trestle to get where you are going, but you'll get no thrill from defying authority.

BTW, my mother got all her rebellion out in girlhood. She was a very respectable and rather conventional adult, but family stories indicate that she was a handful as a kid.

The right of way of the St J & LC is slated for a rails to trails conversion by Lamoille Valley Rail Trail.

You'll know you are close to the cache when you see a small oxbow lake, formed by the meandering of the little stream that carved this valley. (Glaciers helped.) When we placed the cache, the lake was labeled with a streamer of surveyor's tape that reads, "Wetland." Well, yeah.

Congratulations to yo_hg for FTF honors.

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