First of all: There may be some poison ivy on the lake side of ground zero. The cache is NOT located where you might come into contact with it. You can reach the cache without stepping past the guardrail.
Secondly: Be careful if you need to cross Route 80. It can be quite busy between Memorial Day (May) and Columbus Day (Oct). There is a safe parking area very near each geocache along here. You can get your car completely off the roadway.
Look for a magnetic tube on the traffic barrier . . . . ok, ok, the guardrail. Please replace it in the same location it was discovered and not visible to the average muggle walking by. The cache may be harder to find in the winter.
Recently, the Department of Transportion (DOT), has taken a hard look at reducing costs. Studies have shown that using dogs to keep an eye on guardrails is not especially cost effective. The expense of their upkeep, feeding, exercise, vet bills, dog bite lawsuits, etc. has become cost prohibitive. Plus, the dogs themselves have stated that they would rather be dog fighting, than sitting all day by hunks of steel that rarely, if ever, are stolen or vandalized. (Wolf’s Bane” GC35D30 is the only exception I can think of!) :)
Mr. Science, fresh off his tremendous triumph for the CDC, the creation of the anti-viral Lysol Lung Lavage, has been hired by the DOT to develop a newer way to protect our guardrails. He calls them “guarder” snakes. Much simpler than canines, they require little care, have been injected with antifreeze to continue monitoring the guardrails throughout the cold winters of central NY, and they scare the “bejeezus” out of most people. Just make sure you have plenty of snakebite antivenom in your geocaching kit!
The dangerous animal icon is highlighted not because there are dangerous animals in the area. The icon is a snake! It kinda goes along with the name of the geocache.