Have you found caches in 5 or more states and provinces? If this is true (and only if it is true) you qualify to go after this challenge cache.
During the next few weeks I will place challenges related to the number of states and provinces in which cachers have cached. Any combination of Canadian provinces, USA states and District of Columbia is valid.
The challenges will be in increments of 5.
As each is found, I will place the next.
To claim your find, immediately, with your found log, post a screen shot of your finds in the United States for states and Canada for provinces showing that you have met the qualifications for this challenge. These can be found in your stats on the map page.
Here's how to find this one:
1. Park just a few feet from the given coordinates. You DO NEED a Discover Pass.
Note: As the interpretive signs have not yet been replaced, information will be gathered before you begin your walk. When the signs are replaced I will again change the puzzle to make it more informative.
2. Go to the large signboard near the given coordinates and answer the following:
- on the sign titled McLane Creek & Forestry Trails, you should allow B hours for the Pond loop trail.
B = ____
- on the sign titled Welcome to DNR State Trust Land, since 1970, the lands have generated $C billion of income.
C = ____
- on the same Welcome to DNR State Trust Land sign, public resources are protected on more than 1F.7 million acres of state, private and tribal land.
F = ____
3. Go to the Discover Pass Required sign, and note that this regulation is stated in Chapter 7.D4 RCW (Revised Code of Washington)
D = __8__
4. Cross the roadway and at the trail entrance the sign titled "Forestry Trail, has WAC (Washington Administrative Code) number 332.EA.
E =____
A = ____
5. Enter the following coordinates into your GPS:
N 47° 00.ABC W 122° 59.DEF
6. Because coordinates are dreadful in here, following these instructions may work better than following your GPS:
- take the trail starting at the Forestry Trail sign from #4. It will take you on a pleasant walk through the woods to the cache
- you will pass posts from an old bench and a sign posts on your right as you get near the coordinates.
- you will pass two large, tall stumps on your left - continue past them.
- from the tall stumps, continue to 3 short stumps on your left, just a few feet (less than 15 feet) off the trail. You will find the cache on the one on your left as you face them.
I hope you enjoyed your walk in this beautiful area.