797 RESET Multi-Cache
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You are looking for a decon container wrapped in orange duct tape. I set the terrain at 3 because some bushwhacking will be required. There’s an assortment of British coin for FTF.
The posted coordinates are NOT the cache location, they are however a good place to park and start from. You will need to read the instructions provided and follow them to the Benchmark and the cache. Your GPSr can be a useful tool by projecting waypoints from known objects.
To begin with from the parking location using your GPSr, project a way point 220 feet North/Northwest. If you can’t project a way point just walk in that direction until your GPSr shows you to be 220 feet away from the starting point. This should put you at a transmission tower. Now from the north leg of the transmission tower project a way point 30 feet Northeast. Keep your eyes open for a white witness post. The cache is a bright orange decon container hanging in a tree between you and the witness post.
The bench mark stamped “797 RESET” and dated 1967 is a logable Benchmark (PID RD0157), so take a picture of it and log it. For fun I included the text description from the NGS Data Sheet that I used to locate this spot. More often then not the GPS coordinates for a bench mark are as much as 400 feet off and require a good description as well as some kind of fixed land mark that you can reference from. I’ve done the hard part for you yet given you a fun multi cache to find. If you enjoyed this you might try your hand at finding a bench mark on your own.
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1967
12.4 MI SE FROM ESTACADA. REACHED FROM THE CITY HALL IN ESTACADA GO SOUTHEAST ON STATE HIGHWAYS 211 AND 224 FOR 0.2 MILE TO THEIR JUNCTION, CONTINUE STRAIGHT AHEAD SOUTHEAST ON STATE HIGHWAY 224 FOR 12.1 MILES TO MILE POST NO. 36, CONTINUE SOUTHEAST ON STATE HIGHWAY 224 FOR 0.3 MILE TO THE BENCH MARK ON THE LEFT, 0.15 MILE NORTH OF MOORE CREEK, 120 FEET NORTHEAST OF THE CENTER OF THE HIGHWAY, 62 FEET SOUTHWEST OF THE EDGE OF THE CLEARING, 30 FEET NORTHEAST OF THE NORTH LEG OF A TRANSMISSION TOWER, 1 FOOT NORTHWEST OF A METAL WITNESS POST AND 10 FEET ABOVE THE LEVEL OF THE HIGHWAY. IT IS A STANDARD DISK SET IN A 12-INCH SQUARE CONCRETE MONUMENT THAT PROJECTS 4 INCHES.
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