Middlesex Canal Traditional Cache Traditional Cache
Middlesex Canal Traditional Cache
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I was out doing maintenance on one of
the Middlesex Canal caches when I decided to place three caches:
one traditional, one multi and one puzzle. Two of them are easy and
one not quite as easy, depending on your point of view.
This is the traditional.
The Middlesex Canal
The Middlesex Canal, which linked Charlestown, on the Charles
River, to the Merrimack River at Chelmsford, was the result of
efforts by merchants and other wealthy men of Boston, Medford, and
surrounding towns to develop a more efficient way to tap the
natural resources and reach the markets of the Merrimack River
Valley in northeastern Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The route
of the canal went right through Wilmington. Near this cache are the
remains of the Maple Meadow Aqueduct. I hope you take time to
explore the remains of the canal before or after finding this
cache.
The Cache
If you want to increase your Loch Cache find count this will be an
easy one to find provided you are willing to bushwhack about one
tenth of a mile. As you walk along the old canal watch for the
point where the cache is about .11-.12 miles away. That is where
you may want to turn into the woods. If you stay on the canal path
and try to get closer you will be facing muddy or swampy conditions
between you and the cache.
As you approach the cache location you will see some four wheel
dirt paths that will help you get part way to the cache. You will
also see old rusty muggle debris. If you look up at the cache
location you will see what looks like an odd place for a bird's
nest. Be careful as you look around for the cache, although you are
close to the swamp you should not have to get your feet wet going
to or looking for the cache. (Unless of course it is
raining.)
Good luck and good caching,
Loch Cache
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