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Ozette Traditional Cache

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Chaenorrhinum: The leaves have turned and so have the caches

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Hidden : 11/4/2016
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

The B.G. Parks mandate for the geocaches at Wintergarden Preserve is to bring people here to visit our wonderful city resource, keep the social trails to a minimum, and to provide opportunities for families to interact with nature.  Caches are replaced every October.


Sometimes things go missing. Every once in a while they show up again.

 

Many cultures have a tale of a lost city.  The Makah people who live at the very tip of the Olympic Peninsula are no different.  But a storm in 1970 revealed that the village of Ozette really had existed, and was buried in a landslide around 1560.  As excavation work continued, over 50,000 artifacts were collected.  The collection, much of it still housed in a museum in Neah Bay on the Makah Reservation, documents about 2000 years of pre-European life in the Pacific Northwest.  Even wood, grass, and cloth are preserved, making the lost-and-found village an important site for understanding the traditions of the local tribes.

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