This is a Regular Ammo Can hidden in some rocks. BYOP!
- Elevation is 335+ meters (1100+ feet) above sea level, the highest point on the Avalon (and East of Sunnyside Center Hill GC2EB8C).
- Distance is 5.0km from parking spot at communication towers, estimated time 1.5 - 2 hours one way (10km 5hr estimated return) time could be longer depending on walking speed and amount of breaks taken.
- Terrain: rocky/loose gravel/cobble trail, for most of the way, hilly
Please consult the local weather for the area before looking for this cache.
http://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/nl-24_metric_e.html
http://weather.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html?id=wtp
Weather Conditions can be unpradictable in this area, and change with very little notice. Fog can be heavy and may move in with little warning. Please do not attempt with out being properly prepaired have extra batteries for GPS, and fully charged cell phone.
Hawke Hills Ecological Reserve
the Hawke Hill Ecological Reserve protects a variety of arctic-alpine plants that are rarely encountered in North America this far east and south. The area can, in fact, be called the most easterly alpine barrens in North America.
The reserve is often covered by cold fog moving in off the Atlantic. Its elevation and weather conditions keep the area cool even in summer, which is why the arctic-alpine plants are able to survive here. Arctic-alpine species found here include diapensia, alpine bearberry, black crowberry, and threetooth cinquefoil.
The reserve also has low-growing plants that are well-adapted to exposed conditions and soils low in nutrients, including fir and spruce tuckamore. In addition, you can see "patterned ground" in open, windswept locations. The natural arrangement of these stones in rough geometric shapes or lines is caused by exposure to severe weather conditions and exaggerated freeze-thaw cycles (especially where winds keep snow cover thin).
The 1.3 km2 Hawke Hill Ecological Reserve was given provisional reserve status in 1990, and fully designated in 1992. As early as the 1970s, a site just north of the current reserve was identified for protection under the International Biological Program. Before a reserve was created, some of the plant life there was destroyed by the construction of a microwave network and associated maintenance roads. This further emphasized the need for a reserve to protect a portion of this unique ecosystem.
Please be advised that if you wish to follow the trail you will have to travel through the Hawk Hills Ecological Reserve. Thus entering this Reserve you must comply with the provisions of the Wilderness and Ecological Reserves Act. For more information on this act please go to the following link:
http://assembly.nl.ca/Legislation/sr/statutes/w09.htm
in short
A person shall not within an ecological reserve
Fish, hunt, trap, net or snare an animal, use motorized vehicles or equipment, or land aircraft.
Remove from, or destroy or impair in it a plant, animal, fossil or object of historical or scientific interest;