THE CACHE IS NOT LOCATED AT THE POSTED COORDINATES, but is less than a quarter mile from the start, located along the Ice Age Trail. Essentially walk past 8 Ice Age Trail yellow markers to the cache; see below for directions. This is one of 12 geocaches we have placed to celebrate the 12 years of the annual West Bend $1,000 Cache Ba$h, with this one commemorating Cache Ba$h #6 (GC3WQ0R), from the year 2013. Parking is available in the parking lot at N43 24.875 W88 13.155.
This is also a letterbox hybrid cache. Letterboxing is another outdoor activity in which people follow clues or a story (rather than just coordinates) to find a container and then put their personal stamp in the logbook and then stamp their own journal with the stamp from the cache.
A letterbox hybrid, like this one, is both a geocache and a letterbox. It can include both coordinates and clues to get you to the final location. Follow the instructions in the following paragraphs to be directed to the actual cache location. Contents include a stamp (do not take) for letterboxing, as well as a log book and swag for geocachers and letterboxers.
ROCK SONGS?
This cache is celebrating Cache Ba$h 6, which took place in 2013. It marked the turning point in how the Cache Ba$h mega events were conducted, because it’s the last year in which each geocache hider chose their own theme, if any. Every bash event afterward from 2014 to now has had one common theme for all or most of the cache placements (usually 66 caches per mega). This year’s theme is Celebrating 20+ Years of Geocaching. But back then with each hider choosing varied topics, the theme that was most memorable for us was The Goldie Diggers’ 12-cache series of “80s One Hit Wonders,” most of which were placed along the Ice Age Trail. So since those fun and amazing caches were based on “rock” songs, that’s the theme we chose to honor Cache Ba$h 6. Goldie, this one’s for you!
YOUR ADVENTURE AWAITS
THE SHORT VERSION: Walk south along the Ice Age Trail about .23 of a mile past 8 sets of yellow blaze markers until you get to a bench.
THE BETTER VERSION: Follow these directions…
1. The starting coordinates are N43 24.765 W88 13.222, which is a little over 700 feet from the parking lot, along the famed Ice Age National Scenic Trail. The Ice Age National Scenic Trail is one of only 11 national scenic trails in the U.S. Although approx. 1,200 miles long, the entire trail is located within only one state: Wisconsin! Tracing the edge of the glaciers that covered much of Wisconsin during the Ice Age, this long-distance trail travels from Sturgeon Bay, near the shores of Lake Michigan, to St. Croix Falls, on the Minnesota-Wisconsin border. And it cuts through the area RIGHT HERE. Many people have actually hiked the entire Ice Age Trail, some as "thru-hikers" in one continuous adventure, and some as "section hikers," covering the trail in bits and pieces, over the course of many months or years. These folks have earned the title of "Thousand-Milers." The entire trail throughout the state is marked by yellow “blaze” rectangles to direct you along the way. You’ll encounter 8 of these blazes while walking about 1,200 feet (.23 of a mile). Just follow these markers along the trail to the cache most of the way.
2. At the starting coordinates you’ll see a seemingly out of place chain link fence that meets the trail, along with Ice Age Trail (IAT) signage and the first yellow blaze rectangle marker that is painted on a tree. You’re on your way!
3. Head south on the trail. You’ll see a pond on your left at the bottom of the slope as you continue 235 feet to yellow blaze #2, followed by blaze #3 another in another 160 feet. Usually the yellow blaze markers are painted on a tree, preferably about six feet up, other times they’re rectangles or arrows on a wooden post like the one at #3.
4. In about another 170 feet you’ll come to blaze #4 on the tree just to the right of the path. In another 40 feet or so you’ll pass up a big boulder on your left, followed by two more big rocks the size of tricycles right on the trail in another 40 feet.
5. Continue along the path as it zigzags left then right, reaching yellow blaze #5 in 128 feet on a post, followed by #6 at two huge trees on your right at N43 24.628 W88 13.222. Have you been keeping count of the markers or are the coordinates helpful?! 
6. Blaze marker #7 on follows in another 144 feet on a tree at N43 24.614 W88 13.248, with scattered bowling ball-sized rocks nearby on both the left and right. You’re now only about 256 feet from the cache. 
7. As you continue along the trail you’ll begin to see another chain link fence on your right as the path turns left at near a microwave oven-sized boulder. About 170 feet from blaze #7 you’ll see blaze marker #8 on a tree. No more yellow markers.
8. Go 30 feet past that final yellow blaze marker #8 and you will finally come to a bench, the first one encountered on the trail. Stop. Have a seat. You’re almost there! On the bench is a plaque dedicated to a couple for their many years of service. Take that number of years of service, multiply times two, and that is how many feet you simply have to walk southwest, at a bearing of about 270 degrees off trail in a straight line from the bench to a HUGE “rock,” the biggest one yet. That’s where you’ll find what you’re looking for. You’re done!
9. We hope you have enjoyed the journey. Instead of heading back to parking, if you continue south on the IAT about another 700+ feet you’ll find one more cache placed for this year’s Cache Ba$h.
Cache Bash #6 (2013)
- 764 attended logs with 925 teams (about 1,600-1800 people?)
- 1,100 caches overall located within 10 miles
- 1,232 favorite votes (as of summer 2021)
- Thursday, Friday, and Saturday meet & greet events and two events on Sunday
- 12 of 66 caches still active as of summer 2021 (get them while you still can!)
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