The cache is a true park-n-grab, be vigilant while exploring
the
area, it will be obvious just how many
opportunities there are to become injured here.
Most people go about their days visiting retail centers,
sipping
caramel macchiatos, and picking the kids up from soccer
practice.
Off the beaten path are places a little more wild than
others,
places seldom spoken of, yet visited often. These places exist
but
you'll never find them sticking to your safe, suburban
lifestyles.
Come explore an area very unlike the "always" caches and "off your
rocker" caches that inundate American suburbia.
A little further down Knik-Goose bay road, along an unmarked
dirt
road is an abandoned military base. It was built in the 1950s
and
housed missiles in case of attack from Russia. Cement missile
silos
and various other buildings still stand. Beware of hunters
and
paintball gun toting locals.
The cache is very near the area where the military working
dogs
were housed. I thought the construction methods were
interesting
being concrete over wood. These buildings have only been
abandoned
less than 30 years but appear to be much older. Inside the
larger
battery buildings you can still see the steel tracks and
mechanisms
used to roll out the nike missiles, gigantic boilers and
other
critical pieces of infrastructure all vandalized to the
fullest
extent.
CITO doesn't even begin to describe the work needed on
this
site. An embarrassment for the state of Alaska.