This Cache is placed as part of the New York State Park Saratoga/Capital District Regional Geocache Challenge. There are 52 geocaches hidden within 16 state parks and historic sites in this parks region, and geocachers finding 35 or more will be eligible to enter their names in a drawing for valuable prizes. The first 75 people to find 35 or more caches will receive a special geocache challenge coin. If you are interested in taking up the challenge, you can pick up a geocache passport at any of the participating parks and sites or download it at www.nysparks.com
This cache contains a unique stamp which must stay with the cache. Use this stamp to stamp your passport. This stamp is NOT a trade item. Some of the items in the cache are park souvenirs and do not need to be replaced with a trade item
Take Route 67 to the Battlefield. Go to the top of the hill and find the markers denoting where Colonels Herrick and Nichols led their troops. The cache is somewhere in the area.
As the sun rose on August 16, 1777 Colonel John Stark implemented a plan to drive out the British forces under the control of Lieutenant Colonel Baum. Baum and his forces had set up defenses in a very advantageous position at the top of a hill just west of the Walloomsac River. However, Stark split up his men and surrounded the British in order to initiate a multi-pronged attack. He sent Colonel Benjamin Nichols around to the North, Colonel Samuel Herrick around the South and to the West, and Colonels David Hobart and Thomas Stickney around to the South. This pincer move made by the upstart American militia allowed them to overwhelm the highly trained British forces and force them to retreat. This cache is directly in the path taken by the American forces under Nichols and Herrick. Can you imagine charging up the hill with them?