GC3FB5 Sacajawea Stumper (Letterbox Hybrid) in New York, United States created by Team Diver Down, Adopted by Team Ferret

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A cache by Team Diver Down, Adopted by Team Ferret Message this owner

Hidden : 3/3/2002

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Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Cache originally placed by Team Diver Down (John, Sue, Abzug, and Hayduke)

This letterbox hybrid is placed near Watkins Glen State Park, which is a spectacular 1,000-acre park in the Village of Watkins Glen. It has an erosion-sculptured chasm, craggy rock formations, and the cascading water of nineteen waterfalls.

You can get to it by going through the Greenwood Cemetery.

THIS AREA IS OFTEN TRAVELED, AND THE CACHE IS CLOSE TO THE TRAIL, SO BE CAREFUL TO HAVE YOUR ACTIVITIES UNDETECTED. PLEASE HIDE CACHE AS YOU FOUND IT. YOU'LL SEE WHY.

Visitors walking the trail pass by grottoes, rock caverns, waterfalls and walk behind two waterfalls (Cavern Cascade and Rainbow Falls) as they climb 600 feet of elevation in one and a half miles. Some of the highlights of the park are:
* The main ENTRANCE TUNNEL, through hand-cut rock. A hole cut in the rock fifty-two feet above the creek (an old rock flume).
*SPIRAL TUNNEL, leading up to SUSPENSION BRIDGE, eighty-five feet above the creek.
* The high, wide CATHEDRAL with its vertical cracks, potential sites for waterfalls.
* Sixty-foot high CENTRAL CASCADE, the highest waterfall in the gorge, leading to the GLEN OF POOLS, with its many plunge pools and pot holes.
* RAINBOW FALLS, which the trail passes behind, so named because sunlight frequently produces a rainbow in the spray.
* FROWNING CLIFF, a narrow passage with erosion-sculpted pools and dark narrow PLUTO FALLS, named for the Greek God of the underworld.
* MILE POINT BRIDGE, a decision point to either continue up the trail for a half mile to the steep, stone staircase JACOB’S LADDER and the Upper Entrance to the park, or to cross a bridge and return to the Main Entrance, using the South Rim Trail.

During the winter, your best bet is from the Upper Entrance. Enjoy the duck pond and the bridge!

THIS AREA IS OFT TRAVELED, AND THE CACHE IS CLOSE TO THE TRAIL, SO BE CAREFUL TO HAVE YOUR ACTIVITIES UNDETECTED. PLEASE HIDE CACHE AS YOU FOUND IT. YOU'LL SEE WHY.

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A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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Sacajawea Stumper Letterbox Hybrid

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