Favorite Stumps #6 Traditional Cache
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A beautiful start to a planned figure-eight exploration of the ancient, deceased citizens of Cougar Mountain. This micro in camo is easy to get to solely to lure the unsuspecting geocacher into a false sense of security. Not usually an explorer of the backwoods? Here's to changing that!
This is one of the biggest stumps I know in the park. Six feet in diameter? 12 feet tall? How old? That's what always fascinates me the most. How could this not be one of my favorites? It's big, It's right on the trail, and I have a relationship with it! I don't really remember when I first met this hairy grandpa. Probably four years ago, in a race, but it's also possible that it was on a run alone. I definitely have known and appreciated it for a long while. And I had an interesting experience with it just last week. I was running through the park on a rainy Wednesday evening, glasses fogged, dogging it down AntiAircraft Trail, so as not to trip on a root or a rock. I had turned left at Cougar Pass up onto Tibbetts and I was just about to the junction with Tibbetts Marsh when I saw this monster. Huh? I do not remember a stump like that here! How is this possible? Where the heck am I? I still hadn't seen Clay Pit Road until after I climbed all the way around this guy, looking for a place to hide a cache. I had run through (and not seen) the trail junction at Cougar Pass and had mistakenly assumed that the junction at Klondike was Cougar Pass; so when I turned left on Klondike, I thought I was turning left on Cougar Pass. Oh well, you get the idea (or not!). The main point is that this tree stood out so much (even in conditions of terrible visibility), because it is an amazing specimen. See if you agree. Harvey Manning does! He calls it "absolutely massive" and "the second of the two natural landmarks on the trail." No need to leave the trail very much, and the cache isn't on the stump itself, out of concern about damaging it. SO DON"T LOOK THERE. FTF honors go to Shaddow!.
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