Creeping Juniper's Revenge Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 9/2/2012
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

A very well hidden cache in the trees.

Thousands of caches have been hidden with the aid of trees. At the base of trees under rocks or bark, hanging in the branches of trees. Caches have even been placed inside of trees. Even the dead are not safe, dead trees have been hiding places for caches. But did anyone ever ask the tree if they could hide a cache on, in or under a tree... NO! And the trees have had it...It's time for some pay back, and this time it will be the trees having the fun. This is the another of the tree's attempt at pay back. Will you find the tree's hide or will you be STUMBED....(that was not a clue ) All is fair game for the trees, watch out for falling leaves, cones, berries and fruit, branches, squirrels, and anything else the tree wants to throw at you, but you must follow some rules...No harming the trees, no matter how mad you get. Be sure to bring your own writing stick as the cache does not have one.

Creeping Juniper (or creeping cedar) Juniperus horizontalis

The Genus Juniperus contains 40-60 species widely scattered though the Northern Hemisphere, with 14 species native to the United States.  Of these 12 species occure in the Rocky Mountain Region, 2 only appear as small shrubs.  Of these only 4 are in Montana.

Juniperus horizontalis (Creeping Juniper or Creeping cedar) is a low-growing shrubby juniper native to northern North America, throughout most of Canada from Yukon east to Newfoundland, and in the United States in Alaska, and locally from Montana east to Maine, reaching its furthest south in Wyoming and northern Illinois.
It lives up to both its scientific and common names, reaching only 10-30 cm tall but often spreading several metres wide. The shoots are slender, 0.7-1.2 mm diameter. The leaves are arranged in opposite decussate pairs, or occasionally in whorls of three; the adult leaves are scale-like, 1-2 mm long (to 8 mm on lead shoots) and 1-1.5 mm broad. The juvenile leaves (on young seedlings only) are needle-like, 5-10 mm long. The cones are berry-like, globose to bilobed, 5-7 mm in diameter, dark blue with a pale blue-white waxy bloom, and contain two seeds (rarely one or three); they usually have a curved stem and are mature in about 18 months. The male cones are 2-4 mm long, and shed their pollen in early spring. It is dioecious, producing cones of only one sex on each plant.

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