Tree Trivia - The Woodwide Web
Fungi like mushrooms are just the easily-visible type of fungi, but the majority of fungal organisms live in the soil interwoven with tree roots as a vast network of mycelium. Mycelium are tiny “threads” of a greater fungal organism that wrap around or bore into tree roots. Taken together, these threads make a network which connects individual plants together to transfer water, nitrogen, carbon and other minerals. Ecologists have called this network the “woodwide web,” as it is through the mycelium that trees communicate. In healthy forests, each tree is connected to others via this network, enabling trees to share water and nutrients. For saplings growing in particularly shady areas, there is not enough sunlight reaching their leaves to perform adequate photosynthesis. For survival, the sapling relies on nutrients and sugar from older, taller trees sent through the mycorrhizal network.
Finding The Cache
This is the final letterbox cache in the series, and if you are doing them in order then this will take you down close to Limerigg Village again, and the exit out of the woods onto the main road. A waypoint has been added to this cache for a spot on the forest road where you will be able to see a break in the woods, where the telephone poles cut through the trees to the South (to your left if you are headed back towards the main road and Limerigg). Hop the ditch and head South up the treebreak, towards the published coordinates, there's not much of a path here. You will reach a telephone poll at the published coordinates, 'Number 25'. Stand with your back right next to it, facing back down the treebreak to the waypoint on the forest road. The cache is about 14 metres North West of where you are now standing.
Remember to check the letterbox stamp for the leaf type and refer to the table on the cache page for either caches 1 or 7 in this series, to turn the leaf type into a coordinate. If you now have all 6 coordinates then you can try for the series Bonus cache, it's within 400 metres, so not too far away.
Please leave the letterbox stamp, stampbook, and inkpad in the cache for the next cacher.