Locating the cache
This is letterbox-hybrid cache - you'll find it at the posted
coordinates. Make sure to bring along your own personal stamp for
the logbook. The caches in this series are on a 4-5km trail loop
that can be accessed from 15 or 17 Side Road (I personally
recommend 15 Side Road). Sadly this forest doesn't contain many
oaks but if you keep your eyes peeled you'll see one in the
distance or the leaf from an oak on the path.
I've left an unactivated trackable in each of the Oak caches for
the FTF. If you manage to find more than across the caches, please
only take one and leave the others for the next cacher. I didn't
write down the tracking code but would like to follow the
adventures so I'd appreciate it if you sent me the code
(thanks!).
DO NOT remove the ink pad or hand-carved stamp
from the cache. They are not to be traded.
White Oak (Quercus palustris)
From
Wikipedia
Quercus alba, the white oak, is one of the pre-eminent hardwoods
of eastern North America. It is a long-lived oak of the Fagaceae
family, native to eastern North America and found from southern
Quebec west to eastern Minnesota and south to northern Florida and
eastern Texas.
Normally not a very tall tree, typically reaching 65–85
feet (19.5-25.5 m) at maturity, it nonetheless becomes quite
massive and its lower branches are apt to extend far out laterally,
parallel to the ground. The tallest known white oak is 144 feet (43
m) tall. It is not unusual for a white oak tree to be as wide as it
is tall, but specimens growing at high altitudes may only become
small shrubs. White oaks have been known to live up to six hundred
years. The bark is a light ash-gray and peels somewhat from the
top, bottom and/or sides.