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Xact Location Unknown Mystery Cache

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got2bkidnme: Sadly, the property was recently surveyed and while the final is on the right of way and accessible, the majority of the night trail was not on Kopernik Property. Alas.... a new cache is born.

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Hidden : 9/6/2013
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
4 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This is a night trail. Grab your flashlight, grab your friends, grab cache fever - before you are overwhelmed by the unknown and darkness surrounds you. Will your batteries hold? Will you go the wrong way? Will you pass through the supernatural draining every energy source as it tries to drain your last breath.  Will you fall into the quicksand?  Will the walking dead emerge from the posted land looking for you?


Cache is not at the coordinates given.  Park at the given pull off and walk into the woods. Not far in you will come to trail head clearly marked and orange trail markers lead the way. While some "night trails" are found during the day, this one is set with the intention that you find it AT NIGHT. Go at night and earn your stars. Terrain is high because you are not always on trail - and you should take caution with footing - you WILL BE in the WOODS. If you are looking to waste some time before this one, there are caches nearby that you can look for. 

At the trail head you will find you first orange marker.  The trail is marked throughout with single orange markers.  When you come to the end, it is marked by 3 orange markers in a triangle.  How will you find your way out?  The trail back is not marked, but I placed this cache having never stepped foot on this property in the daylight, by myself, and I survived.  I think that you will, too.  Pay attention on the way in.  There is more than one fork to explore.  Fair warning in advance: you will find yourself off trail for a bit. To give you an idea of how much time it will take you - It took me around 90 minutes to place in the dark, but that was a lot of back and forth checking that I could see markers, etc, having never been here before and returning the way I came in. I hiked the trail in the day after initial placement and it took around 10 minutes from the time I left my car til I returned. I am curious, how long will it take you and how many are in your group? The initial cache is LOADED with many things from tweezers to toys and a geocaching pin for FTF.

yes Congrats Gilbo95 for making this find while needing a flashlight (barely) but dusk nonetheless.yes

Permission has been granted by the property owner, Kopernik Observatory, to place this cache.  Credit to an eagle scout for the interpretive trail you will find throughout this area, perhaps more than one visit to the location would do it some justice.  

 

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