Rock walls have been used for thousands of years to delineate property lines. As modern building techniques evolved or property is consolidated throughout the years, their importance decreases and they are abandoned. I always found it interesting when I come across a rock wall where I least expect it: What did the original property look like? Why a boundary here?
This is the tenth in a series highlighting forgotten rock walls that I have come across, usually while geocaching. The others are available at the following link:
Listing of Forgotten Rock Wall caches
For the tenth one in the series and my 25th hide overall, I decided that I wanted to do something a little different. So here it is, a FRW puzzle cache!
THE WALL THAT STARTED IT ALL! I would drive by this wall as a kid and wonder how it got there and what was there before. I could not place a cache inside the interstate cloverleaf for obvious reasons. You are looking for one particularly impressive wall. It is at least 200 ft. long and easily visible most of the year. Seeing these in the middle of an interstate can really take you back in time...
You can locate the wall safely in at least two ways:
1> Take a geobuddy and traverse the ramps and loops of the interchange (one cacher driving, one cacher looking) to find the wall.
2> Use the modern tools freely available to the savvy geocacher to look for it (Google Earth, Bing Maps, etc.)
Once you locate it, apply the offsets shown in the above picture in the proper quadrant to the published coords to derive the actual location of the cache. For example, if you find it in the northwest quadrant, you would subtract the shown values from the north and west coords to find the final location. Parking available less than 100 ft from the cache.
Final location can be accessed safely without crossing any roads, use common sense!
Congrats to Ragtime Fan and swampland'r for the FTF!