GC22WAY Trail Watcher #4 (Traditional Cache) in Maryland, United States created by jfigel

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jfigel: I am not 100% sure it was missing, but if the container is still there, the tree hole that it was placed in is now buried. I found the tree but the tree is leaning over and the tree hole is not exposed.

jfigel.

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A cache by jfigel Message this owner

Hidden : 1/10/2010

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Size: Size: not chosen (not chosen)

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Geocache Description:

Located along the Savage Mill Trail. Park at the Bollman Truss Bridge along Foundry Street. Trail takes to to within 50 ft of cache.

From Traillink.com The Savage Mill Trail in Savage Park travels along the rolling Patuxent River through the grounds of an old cotton mill. In the early 1800s, Savage was a major manufacturing center, harnessing power produced by the falls on the Little and Middle Patuxent rivers. Near the trailhead stands an 1822 textile mill, today renovated as a shopping center where you can buy antiques or grab a picnic lunch to enjoy on the pleasant 1-mile trail. The trail begins at an old Bollman truss bridge, an iron structure used exclusively by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Built in 1869, the bridge was moved to Savage in 1887. Though the company built about 100 of these bridges before 1873, this is the country's only remaining Bollman bridge of this design. The trail's designers left the train tracks in place on one side of the bridge, so you can imagine the train passing beside you as you ride or walk over this piece of history. Most of the trail is paved and flat, but the surface changes to gravel and then dirt before it ends abruptly in the middle of the woods. Although you are very near a major highway and the bustle of the shopping center, the music of the river rolling over large boulders and the white oaks surrounding the trail create the impression that you're in the wilderness. It's easy to stop and savor the natural oasis at one of the trail's many picnic tables. The Savage Mill Trail is part of a larger, 20-mile system of pathways through Howard County. For a more challenging trip, hit the Patuxent Branch Trail (page 53), which begins a few blocks away.