Welcome to my favorite sport of hiking. I saw this incredible trail full of caches and decided to hike out and place some more as I saw some gaps in the numbers. The Florida trail is such a beautiful section of the great outdoors and I encourage everyone to take some time and come explore nature and of course find some caches along the way. I have updated the cache count and distances for what I have hiked so far and will continue on future sections as well.
Make sure you bring plenty of water with you on the trail as some sections do not have shade and with the weather getting warmer, hydration is very important while on the trail. I recommend minimum of 6 bottles per section. Also bring snacks to maintain your sugar/energy levels and a cell phone in case of emergencies. Good luck and be safe. Enjoy my new caches and your visit to the Central Florida section of the Florida Trail. Another easy cache on the FT FTOC stands for Florida Trail Ocala Challenge. I enjoy hiking and hope that there are other cachers out there who share the interest. Not a real challenge type cache, the hope is that this series will result in a nice string of caches on the Florida Trail as it traverses Ocala National Forest. To help with this we hope to identify the access points where a standard 2wd car can reach the trail for a nice day hike in the 3 to 7 mile range. To this end we have developed a cache naming system that may assist. All the cache names will have the format: FTOC ANNNB. A is a letter, either P or T. P means it is a place to park where a road that is reachable by car crosses the trail. T means it is a cache on the trail. NNN is the number of the cache which will start with 000 at the southern end of the ONF near Paisley. The final letter, B indicates that all the caches with the same letter were placed on the same day. In other words, all the A series are in a nice one day hike. All the B series are in another nice one day hike etc.< /b>
Here's an inexact summary of the sections:
A 6.5 mi. 47 caches
B 4.5 mi. 32 caches
C 3.4 mi. 14 caches
D 4.7 mi. 30 caches
E 5.2 mi. 31 caches
F/J 8.1 mi. 30 caches
These are default measurements and DO NOT account for the geocache shuffle.< /b> My goal on these hides is easy finds that are muggle resistant. Other things make these caches vulnerable such as hungry wild criters and controlled burns.
YOU ARE LOOKING FOR HANGING PREFORMS OR CAMO’D PILL BOTTLES. 