Got an itch for a geocache? This is a good place to scratch it. If you are a moose carrying around 50 pounds of antlers, and they itch as they grow and mature, then this is also the place for you!
Antlers are one of the fastest-growing tissues of an animal, and up to eight inches of antler growth in a span of nine days has been seen.
Each spring adult male moose begging to grow antlers made of bone and keratin inside a nourishing skin covering on the moose's head, called "velvet". Velvet stays on antlers for just over four months, when males will start rubbing up against trees to remove it—a behavior that turns their antlers brown.
At ground zero there are a number of trees with scrapings five feet or more off the ground. Some think they are the result of moose scratching their antlers, while others think they are from moose biting and eating the cambium layer of the tree in the winter.
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The best way to find the cache is to stay on the paved trail until you see the moose-modified trees, then take the easy trail to those trees. Once there, look to the east (left while facing the trail) for the container. The small-size container is animal-related, but a moose was not available. Be forewarned that there is some container mischief™ involved.