It's been a long road searching the hills for the NW Passage to Vernonia for a power trail going into Vernonia from the SE. This is the final stop as now the journey had encountered all those disappointment that Lewis and Clark never faced with 8 or 10" steel I-beams, pad locks, trenches and berms of earth and fallen trees across the road. Canoes and packs could be packed around this obsticles but Geocachers are a little more picky about packing SUV over and around this stuff. So, with dampen spirits we move back down the Highway home leaving on last axe blazing cache to remember the journey.
Remniscent of the journey this cache will bring your mind to know the struggles of this treak as the last feat one must climb the embankment to great heights to recover the last great treasure of the trip. This cache is not for the feeble or weak hearted but offers a trophey of success that could not be claimed by finding the Great Passage.
This week Mnkjohnson provided transportation as we picked up some of the local caches as we tried to put together route. Like Clark, who would have blazed a tree we opted to plant a cache to mark our way. Meriwether would have penned that the clouds were open and the sun had fled yet we were of good spirits. The progress was slow and the way narrow but our steed had firm footing to push on.
The marker will be found on the lower base of what is a multi-trunked tree high off the roadway.
Good luck to those who come after.