Kettle Hole Traditional Cache

This is a pretend Earth Cache. This area is full of Kettle Holes. Follow the red blazed trails. The ups and downs can be disorienting. Be aware that the red trails split in several places, without changing color. The shortest route to the cache is by keeping left at both splits after the entrance at the Ringwood Ponds sign.

Trail map below. Trails black on the map, red on the trees.

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Look around while you walk to the cache. Isn't this a fantastic landscape? Below you can learn how these Kettle Holes were formed.

( I wish I could include the very demonstrative picture, but I don't know how. Honestly, I'm not sure I want to learn how to do it. Sorry.) I have managed to include the picture in the Gallery. Please check it out.

A kettle hole is formed by blocks of ice that are separated from the main glacier - perhaps the ice front stagnated or retreated or perhaps ice blocks were washed out from the glacier during a glacier flood or jökulhaup. If conditions are right, the isolated blocks of ice then become partially or wholly buried in outwash. When the ice blocks eventually melt they leave behind holes or depressions that fill with water to become kettle hole lakes. In freshly deglaciated areas, such as along the south coast of Iceland, kettles form obvious small lakes in the outwash plains. In Scotland, they may be preserved as isolated small lakes, or deep water-filled depressions in boggy areas that were once the low-lying outwash plains. Many kettles have been infilled with sediments, especially peat, during the Holocene.

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The cache is a big micro pill bottle, camoed and tied in. Push and turn. BYOP and please be careful with the log roll and its rubberband, so it will fit easily in the plastic little zip lock. Without the combination it will be very hard for the next cacher to get the log out of the bottle. If you put the rubber band on your finger while you log, you're less apt to lose it. No tweezers please, they kill the plastic.