EARTHCACHE REQUIREMENTS
Each cacher must send his/her own answers BEFORE logging a find. "Geocachers must complete the tasks before they log the EarthCache as found." (4.3. EarthCache logging tasks) if your answers are WAY off, I’ll contact you. Otherwise, please log your find after sending me your answers. In the e-mail, please indicate your geocaching name and include the names of other geocachers with you. Logging it as found without providing your answers AND uploading a photo will result in the log being deleted without notice. According to the guidelines, sending the answers is a requirement, not a request.
The waterfall will fluctuate with the most recent amount of precipitation. The area that you are in consists of a bedrock primarily of limestone, but also contains some layers of sandstone. The flow of water over a long period of years here have eroded the soil and limestone bedrock that you see, and you should also recognize the ever so gradual recess of the underlying bedrock that cause the waterfall cascade.
Cache is located at Buttermilk Falls Walking Trail. Parking is at N 38 00.228 W086 09.890. This is an approx 2.4 mile trail one way. This EC is located about .6 of a mile in. Please do not attempt to drive to this location. There is a farm trail that parallels this trail but it is on private property.
During periods of heavy rainfall, and years of erosion and mechanical weathering, the waterfall you see here has both receded and became wider. The reason this waterfall is more often than not dry, is because it is located on a hillside, dependent on runoff, instead of being spring fed like many.
1. Do you see evidence that this waterfall is receding and/or getting wider? If so please elaborate.
2. Do you see evidence of undercutting at this waterfall?
3. Do you think this waterfall is ever dry, and if so why?
4. Take a photo of yourself or your GPSR with the waterfall in the background
5. At the base of the water fall a plunge pool is formed. How is it formed and how deep would you expect this one to get ?
6.And lastly, at this location there are more than one falls near this one, the largest. Please tell me how many, on both sides of the trail do you see?