The cache lies within view of the Brewster River, which runs
north from Stowe, Vermont and joins the Lamoille River near
Cambridge and Jeffersonville, Vermont. The cache is located
high enough above the waterline and far enough back that even
during the spring floods you should have no worries about whether
the cache may have washed away.
Cache history: This geocache was
originally placed by WASP & JERRY. There were a few
things about the original listing on the geocaching.com website
that were a bit misleading:
- It was named "Mount Mansfield" despite
being well north of the mountain, down by the river, on the far
side of the road.
- It had a terrain rating of 1, implying
level, even ground that even a wheelchair could traverse, and in
fact, it's more of a 2.5, fairly level but uneven with a bit of a
drop-off down once you leave the parking lot.
- The difficulty of the cache was 1, which
wasn't really appropriate given that the serious tree cover made
for moderately difficult hunting.
The cache didn't get maintained for a long
time, either, and so finally, in October of 2004, Otter and Lemur
made a visit, maintained the cache, replaced the original leaky
bottle with a new Tupperware container, brought in a new log book,
and so on, then offered to adopt the cache. This request was
granted in mid-November of 2004 and the cache listing was updated.
(The information, above, is made available so cachers reading the
cache logs won't get a mistaken impression of the condition,
terrain, and difficulty of the cache; it's in good condition
now.)
A second cache maintenance visit was made
in the spring of 2005 after a winter 2005 finder left the logbook
out of the cache before the snows and it stayed out all winter
long. Ick. The cache has a new logbook as of spring
2005.
In January of 2006, Okillezzzz agreed to
adopt this cache.