Mulan Mountain Traditional Cache
Hidden : 1/16/2014
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Mulan Mountain is where the historical character the Disney movie "Mulan" is very loosely based on lived.

Most westerners know of the Disney movie "Mulan" but don't know there was a real "General Mulan" who lived on Mulan Mountain.  This mountain is about 1.5 hours drive from Wuhan China.
Mulan Mountain is 582.1 meters above sea level. There are a lot of temples on the mountain. Mulan Mountain has been a famous religious shrine for one thousand years. The religious activities here dated from the Sui and Tang Dynasties, culminated in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
I placed this cache in the off season so if you arrive here in the summer I'm sure the parking lot alongside of the cache hiding spot will be full of mugglers so be sly.  The cache should not be too hard to find but the coordinates may be off 15 feet or so as I could not get a solid lock.  Use your geocaching senses and you should discover this one with ease.  This is my 3rd cache in the Wuhan area and I expect that this will be several months until FTF and that should make it even more sweet to the finder.
We had a great time hiking some of the trails here including some that were "closed" but not so closed as to be inaccessible.
The cache is a camo plastic drink container with screw on top that will hold medium sized TB's.  Don't think any clue is required because the location will be fairly obvious to an experienced geocacher but hopefully will not be easily discovered by the millions of mugglers in China.

UPDATE:

The parking lot was just too busy to make a good location. The cache came up missing so I decided to move it to a trail which would be more likely to remain free from mugglers. You should still visit the original cache location because the view of Mulan Mountain is fantastic from there. The new cache has been placed along a hiking trail about 300 yards N.W. of the original location (see maintenance post below for new coordinates). This requires going back down the road a bit to the trail head (waypoint). From there it will be a hike up the stairs and I'd guess it's maybe 200 steps to the cache location so I'm going to update the difficulty level accordingly. You will not have to leave the paved trail by much and although there is a fall hazard the dirt is wide enough so that any careful hiker will do fine.
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Decryption Key

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