Pond in the Woods Traditional Cache
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You are looking for a green cammoed cannister hidden off the path to the old farm pond. This is the farthest cache from the parking area which accounts for the overall difficulty of 2.
This is one in a series of caches to introduce more people to the woods trails of Hanson Farm, Inc. which is protected from development under the Land for Maine's Future Program. There is ample parking year-round at McDougal's Orchard on Hanson's Ridge Rd. Walk through the red gate and bear right to access the trails. Hikers, geocachers, dogs on leashes, bikers and horseback riders are all welcome. NO motorized vehicles, however and day light caching only.
The cache is stuffed with mini coloring books/crayons for the kids and a variety of other trinkets. FTF will always have the satisfaction but there are no losers in caching, so my caches will have either a first, second, or third to find prize - not telling which!! (You can tell in your logs once the cache has three finds.) Please count each of the following situations as a single find: caching alone; caching in a group; joining another cacher who arrived before you did, but who hasn't found it. As for coming upon a cacher who's already found it, please use your own discretion. Have fun!
CLARIFICATION: After reading Marcipanek's FTF Logs, I checked with Ellen/Jack McAdam who run the McDougal Orchard operation and who maintain the trails on the Hanson Farm property The CLOSED sign is for the Orchard business ONLY. DOGS are not allowed within the confines of the actual orchard (surrounded by electric fence to keep the deer out). Animals are only present along the beginning of the Sheep Pasture Trail when the orchard business is open late summer & fall. It is perfectly fine to walk your leashed dog right past this section (issues have arisen with dogs hanging out there and pestering the animals, walking on through is not an issue) or take the Slippery Hill Trail which is a bit before the Sheep Pasture Trail. Just go around the truck parked at the entrance to this trail.
The McAdams were excited that someone had already enjoyed the trails and found the caches. They very much want people to park at the orchard rather than down the hill on the side of the road. Congrats to Marcipanek and thanks for alerting me to the need for clarification!!
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