Mossy Mountain Traditional Cache
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This is a cache placed on the conspicuous remains of a lot of sweat, backache, and toil.
From apples to zucchini, Pennsylvania agriculture has been producing tasty foodstuffs since the first native american put tool to soil. The traditional growing season runs from spring to fall, but it's a little known fact that PA farms produce a rich crop during the icy winter months as well. A crop of rocks. Yes, our temperate climate and a little known process called Frost Heave combine to force rocks to the surface of plowed fields year after year. What's a farmer to do?
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Why, pile those rocks at the edges of his fields as a stone row of course! Early farmers would often find their fields rich with rocks come spring and would have the help (read:kids) haul them off and form great piles and long rows. Spring Creek Canyon has many of these long rows and heaps, and this cache is placed atop one such location. As you find the cache, remember that each stone here was likely loaded by hand from the adjacent field, and think of the poor farmhands and their aching backs!
Note: This cache is on State Game lands, so please wear blaze orange when hunting this or search on a Sunday.
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(Decrypt)
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