So much to see and do in the Methow Valley! This cache is easy to reach if you are tall enough and you can drive right up to it. Placed with the owners permission. Please be sure to replace it as found to insure that the local muggles don't notice anything. There is lots of parking (in the winter it is not plowed) so any size vehicle will have no problems.
About the area and lake - Pearrygin Lake's name - B.F. "Ben" Pearrygin scouted the Methow Valley in 1887, one year after it opened to white settlement. He claimed land on the lake that bears his name and would have taken up squatters rights until the land was surveyed and he could file for a homestead. Little is known about Ben Pearrygin. The most complete, and unflattering, description of him is in an excerpt from a letter dated Jan. 21, 1916. It was written by Guy Waring, who founded Winthrop, to Professor Meany at the University of Washington. Meany had inquired about the origin of local place names. Waring said, "Pearrygin Lake ... was named after Benjamin Franklin Pearrygin; who was the third squatter in the valley and who located on this lake's shore. He was from Southern Illinois and had the appearance of one's ideal Portugese Pirate. I have little doubt that he was of Southern European descent and originally a "Perugino." He was undoubtedly an evil man and, I suspected, had sold his soul to the devil but had not collected the pay! He met his death by falling out of a barn loft while drunk and died after five days of agony that more than expiated all his sins. He was a merry soul, withal." (http://www.methownet.com/grist/features/namingpearrygin.html)