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This Cache is placed as part of the 2021 Taconic Region Geocaching Challenge. The NYS Parks Saratoga-Captial Region and the Central Region will be hosting a similar challenge!! Find 45 challenge caches in the Taconic Region and stamp your passport to earn a trackable geo-coin. Ten caches found in the Sara-Cap and/or Central Region Challenge can be used toward the Taconic Challenge. This cache contains a unique stamp which must stay with the cache. Use this stamp to mark your passport. This stamp is NOT a trade item.
Please visit https://parks.ny.gov/documents/regions/2021TaconicGeocacheChallenge.pdf to print your passport.
There is no fee to enter this park. Be sure to check the Walkway Over the Hudson website for updated information and a trail map. https://parks.ny.gov/parks/178/details.aspx
About this cache: The Common Yellowthroat – a warbler – can be found in Dutchess County in the spring. Common Yellowthroats spend much of their time skulking low to the ground in dense thickets and fields, searching for small insects and spiders. Males sing a very distinctive, rolling wichety-wichety-wichety song.
To solve for the final: How many words are on the first line of the sign? This will be A.
A-3 = X. A+5 =Y. Final is at N 41 42.6X7, W 073 57.2Y8.
You are looking for a unique container at ground level, near a metal post. You may have seen this before, so don’t be fooled.