Invasive Paths Traditional Cache
SMuddT: This one deserved to die long ago, definitely not CCOB
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Make this geo-trail a more beautiful place!
As you walk briefly up, then back down this slight hill, put a few bends into your path.
The easiest thing when walking through a vegetated area is to take the shortest path, Unfortunately (especially where it's somewhat steep), that can lead to erosion and ugliness. So as you hike the 150 feet up from the invasive road, through the invasive ivy, growing in this invasive gully, don't take the straight line path, the path that would encourage the formation of a ditch when it rains hard. Instead start to create a new, bendy, weaving path, that winds its way from one side to the other through the ivy. You're not going to hurt the ivy by stepping on it. It's invasive (kinda pretty some times), but highly invasive.
There are actually any number of invasive things going on around here. There are two distinct kinds of ivy, and a couple of other plant species as well. And heck, the gully itself that the path follows is invasive - and it doesn't even go anywhere. It is mapped as an extension of SE 64th St, and sometime may actually be built, if this wooded area is developed. But is a straight line path off of the scarp and almost directly over the Seattle fault-line really a good idea? Well, I don't think so.
The cache should be fairly easy. It is a micro wearing camoflage, but that will actually make it easier to find. I put it next to or underneath a small log on the ______ side of the trail. (I don't know where the trail is with respect to the cache, because you are going to make a new winding one, right?)
So make sure you wind your way back and forth as you walk towards and away from the cache, and go at least 20 feet past GZ and come back to it, so the trail does not end right there. This can be an experiment in whether geocaching can actually improve the path through an area.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
haqre fznyyvfu ybt, nyzbfg ohevrq va vainfvirarff
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