GC2PWYK FTOC P085E (Traditional Cache) in Florida, United States created by Itchyfeet2wander

This cache has been archived.

Itchyfeet2wander: This cache is along the OLD Florida Trail and cannot be reached. Any cache that is on the west side of Farles Lake will need to be archived as they are currently in the expanded bombing range area. We hiked the trail today and the signs lead hikers toward the east side of Farles Lake. The old west side FT is barricaded off.

GC2PWYK ▼

A cache by Itchyfeet2wander Message this owner

Hidden : 3/6/2011

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Size: Size: regular (regular)

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FTOC stands for Florida Trail Ocala Challenge. Itchyfeet2wander and poosu enjoy hiking and hope that there are other cachers out there who share the interest. Not a real challenge type cache, the hope is that this series will result in a nice string of caches on the Florida Trail as it traverses Ocala National Forest. To help with this we hope to identify the access points where a standard 2wd car can reach the trail for a nice day hike in the 3 to 7 mile range. To this end we have developed a cache naming system that may assist. All the cache names will have the format: FTOC ANNNB. A is a letter, either P or T. P means it is a place to park where a road that is reachable by car crosses the trail. T means it is a cache on the trail. NNN is the number of the cache which will start with 000 at the southern end of the ONF near Paisley. The final letter, B indicates that all the caches with the same letter were placed on the same day. In other words, all the A series are in a nice one day hike. All the B series are in another nice one day hike etc.

This is a nice ammo can on the "E" series of caches located near Farles Prairie camping area. There is a jeep trail near the cache. It is on the right side (east) of the trail as you are traveling north.

While we were placing the cache a fire broke out across the beautiful lake and we stood watching the helicopters dumping huge buckets of water on the fire.....sad to see the forest burn (unless it is a prescribed burn). The ticks didn't want to stay for the fire.....I brought home 9 of them!!! So bring your spray!!