The letterbox is not hidden at the posted coordinates. The posted coordinates will take you a spot on the trail, very near the cache. To find the cache, you have to follow the clues in the HINT.
The name of this letterbox, Iq!apc'lwac, is the Chinook word for turtle. Since I live in Scappoose (the Chinook word for gravelly plain), I thought it would be fun to name my caches in Chinook. This is my twelfth hide, celebrating my 120th find.
The Crown Zellerbach trail was once a logging road and before that, a logging railroad. Today it is a linear county park. It is a rails to trails project that is progressing very slowly in my opinion, but it is a very welcome project.
This is my second letterbox cache. I only just became interested in letter boxing earlier this year (2012), and there are so few in this area that I decided right away that I wanted to start hiding a few. Remember: letterboxes include stamps which are not trade items. I placed the stamp in a plastic bag with a label. I placed the SWAG in another plastic bag with a different label, so you shouldn't get them mixed up. Letterboxes do not include ink pads. Ink pads would dry out quickly, making them impractical. If you are hoping to leave an image of your stamp and collect an image of my stamp, you will need to bring your own ink pad.
03/03/2012: Congratulations to FootSoSaurus, 1st to find!
01/25/2015: Congratulations to CB&BB, 100th to find!