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As you are hiking down this nice peaceful trail you are getting tired and hungry. Sure wish I could stop someplace and rest. Well it looks like after the new construction here, the little shelter and picnic table were removed and replace with a nice patch of grass to sit on. So you will have to bring a blanket to sit on if you want to have a picnic. So sit and rest and maybe have a snack. While sitting there you begin to think, now where would the CO put a cache?