MBT - Carrabassett Traditional Cache
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The cache is a small container that has a log and a pencil. Not really big enough to hold any but the smallest of travel bugs. Should be accessible year 'round but likely more challenging in winter.
Team PITH (comprised of paynim45, iampaw, trick or treat and hockeyma) enjoyed an hour spent among ski bunnies at a local establishment in the middle of a day of caching. We raised a glass to caching, fellowship and commerce. The majority of Team PITH recommends trying the Carrabassett if you follow our lead and spend any time in this neighborhood. ;)
Five Fun Facts about Carrabassett Valley
1775 - Some of Benedict Arnold’s men likely camped for several days in the northeast corner of what is now Carrabassett Valley on their ill-fated autumn march to Quebec City.
1837 – A special Maine Census listed a population of 54 in the two townships of T3R2 (Jerusalem) and T4R2 (Crockertown), which later combined to form Carrabasset Valley. There were eight family names in Jerusalem; Buck, Dresser, Lovel, Moody, Read, Tailor and Tuft. Crockertown was uninhabited but logging had begun in the area and there was a saw mill in Jerusalem.
July 1908 - A great forest fire burned from Burnt Mtn. across the north side of Sugarloaf and west of the Caribou Pond Road toward Crocker Mountain with a total loss of about 5500 acres. This fire provided some of the above tree line skiing on Sugarloaf Mountain which we enjoy today.
1937 - The final section of the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine, between Bigelow Station and Oberton Stream, was opened on August 16th. That section passed through Crockertown, Mt. Abram and Redington townships.
1948 - The “Bigelow Boys” cut a ski trail on the north side of Bigelow Mountain and in 1950 the Sugarloaf Mountain Ski Club (SMSC) was formed to develop a ski facility on Sugarloaf Mountain. And the rest, as they say, is history.
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