Old Becomes New (Easy for Beginners) Traditional Cache
Old Becomes New (Easy for Beginners)
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This huge and popular park needed a big cache with easy parking nearby for beginners and kids. You are looking for a big cache, but it has a trick to hide from muggles and moose. Lots of room for treasure. Be prepared to not have cell phone or data coverage at ground zero. GPSr reception is not good and tends to jump around in the Park, but that isn't much of a problem with a large cache.
The land of Kincaid Park was once run over by huge glaciers. About 11,000 years ago the glaciers ground up the rocks and mountains the Eagle River Valley, carried it downstream to this area, and dropped the dirt off to form the hills of Kincaid Park as the ice melted away.
After WWII the military used the land for a military base, placing the first operational Nike-Hercules Unit anti-aircraft missile unit here in 1959 to protect the air force base from the USSR during the Cold War. This site housed one of the most advanced radar systems of the day, and was maintained 24 hours a day with 100 men on alert seven days a week. One of the radar station sites is just up the hill a few hundred feet from the cache.
The missile battery was deactivated in 1979 and the land transferred to the Municipality of Anchorage in 1980. Anchorage invested a lot of money to turn it into a world-class country ski area and often hosts national championships and Olympic qualifying events here.
Today there are remnants of all the uses of the land scattered throughout Kincaid Park.
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(Decrypt)
Vg zvtug ybbx "byq" ng svefg.
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