Alternate title: A Friend in need.
While they’re generally competitors engaged in a constant effort to put their leaves and needles where the sun does shine, you’ll occasionally find one lending support to the other in situations like this one.
About 4m from the trail, below the supporting conifer is an example of the lengths (and depths) a tree’s roots will go to find anchorage and nutrition. Under one of those fir roots is also where you’ll find the cache, in a small (60 ml) camoed screw-top container.
No need to climb the rock.
A caution: high winds can cause many ‘blow-down’ felled trees. This pair seem stable (and survived severe wind conditions more than once in the month before the cache was set), but others nearby were not so fortunate. ANY trip into the forest requires a weather check before you go.