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28°! Another Fool's Folly! Traditional Cache

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The Jester: I'm sorry that I have to let this one go, but development is only a couple of hundred yards off and getting closer. And with most trailheads marked 'No Trespassing" it's time to say good bye. Thanks to TheLimeCat for finding the cache and pulling it for me. It was an adventure to place and continued to be an adventure - even for me - to the end.

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Hidden : 1/7/2010
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Another cache site found while out in "extreme" weather mapping trails. It started out about 25 degrees, but "warmed" up some while I was out and about.


While working on mapping the roads & trails in this area, I watched the puddles and ponds get more and more ice on them. The day I got to here everything was frozen solid - which made the wetlands to the south of the cache site a lot easier to deal with. I would not recommend that route (though I did take it on the way out) unless you like walking on fallen trees above three foot deep water and bushwhacking thru 6 foot high brush. But, gee, it was only a couple of hundred feet... folly on top of folly.

There are three trail heads, but only one that isn't signed No Trespassing (see additional waypoints). That makes it about a three mile hike in - mostly on dirt road with mild elevation changes. The terrain rating is for this route. If you don't have access to NW Trails you should add a star to the difficulty, as it's not a direct route. While the maps here on the cache page show some of the old roads, they aren't complete or fully accurate.

The road turns into a track. The track got beaten into submission by falling trees and became a trail. The trail gave up the fight and died in the bushes. You're looking for a 50cal ammo can some where near the 'graveyard'.

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Oruvaq gur furys, haqre gur gevcyr.

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)