Cache is NOT at the posted coordinates.
Gertrude's Stash is the bonus to Rock Creek - A claim by J M Weed Adventure Lab
Complete the adventure lab and find the final location.
Rating is mainly for distance as this is paved but there will be hills and street crossings. The final is not wheelchair accessible.
The names are the same, but the location was changed to protect History.
This much is true:
From The Daily Astorian, Oct. 2, 1888:
• Again reports from the vicinity of Saddle Mountain of silver or ledges and finds of gold … A good coal mine uncovered in that vicinity would beat in value either a gold or silver mine.
Notes: Well, the pickings for both silver and coal are pretty much nil for the North Coast area, but there was, indeed, gold.
A mini gold rush in Clatsop County was started by J. M. Weed, who filed a claim on Rock Creek in eastern Clatsop County on May 25, 1885.
Weed named his mine Gertrude, but there wasn't any mention of how much gold old Gertie coughed up. If he needed consoling, Weed Creek — about 6 miles east of Elsie — was named for him.
