North Country Trail Series - The Cave Traditional Cache
North Country Trail Series - The Cave
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This cache is hidden along the Miami and Erie Canal Towpath Hiking Trail (40 miles long from Fort Loramie to Delphos) which is part of the longer Buckeye Trail (1445 miles long circling Ohio). This section is also part of the even longer North Country Trail (4600 miles long spanning from North Dakota to New York).
The Cave is not really a cave at all by definition. Rather it is a long tube that allows hikers to walk under St. Route 33 without any danger. It is surprisingly narrow and can feel very long. This area has no importance for the canal but does for the designation of the North Country Trial. Trail builders have no problem expecting their hikers to cross creeks and rivers with no bridge, climb high mountains with no water, camp with not campsites, but they do not expect them to cross major highways for obvious reasons. Highway crossings like this are usually a major problem for trial builders because it cost so much to build a bridge over or a tunnel under many times they try to avoid them all together. This tunnel may serve a challenge to get your bike through but you can. I walked in front of my bike and wheeled it behind me by the handle bars. It does get dark, but a flashlight is not needed.
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