Bootleggers Cove Rebootied (CM #27) Traditional Cache

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Dogliest: Geocache is gone. I am not going to replace it.

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Hidden : 3/12/2020
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:


This area of Anchorage is called "Bootleggers Cove" -- an area below the Anchorage downtown plateau and nearly at sea level next to the mudflats of Cook Inlet. The cache is mostly winter-friendly and designed to be hidden from muggles, but not so hard for keen-eyed experienced cachers. 

Bootleggers Cove neighborhood was greatly affected by the 1964 earthquake, the third largest earthquake ever measured. The earthquake itself only directly killed 15 people, but the resulting tsunamis killed 124 more, including 5 in Oregon and 13 in California.  The landslides in Anchorage were mostly the result of a soil layer known as "Bootleggers Cove Clay" becoming liquified and sliding downhill.  

Today Bootleggers Cove probably has the most modernistic architectural style buildings in Anchorage, interspersed with many older buildings. 

 The neighborhood suffers from having the railroad line nearby cutting off most access to the water, but it benefits from being a hidden area of downtown within walking distance of many jobs and restaurants. Anchorage has three neighborhoods named for criminals, the other two being "Spenard" and "Russian Jack".  

 The previous cache in the park was GC5K4YX, and Dogliest Cache's first Bootleggers Cove cache was GC5JA24.

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