Geo-Rebel Alliance: Hoth Traditional Cache
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I recently had the pleasure of visiting Yellowknife for work and I had a great time. The geocaching was superb and the scenery was amazing.
Luckily my company is doing long-term work in Yellowknife so I will get to return again.
Looking forward to doing more geocaching in this area.
This cache is dedicated to the geocachers of Yellowknife, and their bane, snow/ice.
Hoth was the sixth planet of the remote Hoth system. A desolate world covered with ice and snow, located in the Anoat sector, a rarely-traveled portion of the Outer Rim Territories, it became famous as the one-time location of the Alliance to Restore the Republic Echo Base during the Galactic Civil War. The base was discovered by the Empire in 3 ABY, precipitating the Battle of Hoth, a major engagement that destroyed the Rebels' base and gave them heavy casualties.
Hoth consisted of a molten metallic core with dichotomous crust. Its surface was entirely covered by a frozen ocean, except where volcanic fissures opened up steam vents, depositing rock and minerals in darker patches on the glacier plains. A few mountain ranges pierced the permanent ice shelves, some being geologically active.
Its orbit and axial tilt resulted in consistently icy weather patterns. Daytime temperatures reached levels unbearable to most species and rarely rose above freezing, even in the planet's relatively mild equatorial regions. The gale force winds and intense snowstorms that regularly wracked the windswept surface magnified the extreme cold of Hoth.
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