This cache is named after the naturalist, John Muir, who helped create the national parks. He always had a love for nature and he would often explore for days in his favorite place: the Yosemite Valley, bringing only some bread and tea with him. He would climb to the top of a tree during a storm just to see what the it felt like. Once he climbed a mountain all day and when he got to the top he rode an avalanche down! When he built his cabin in the Yosemite Valley he had a little stream running through it!
John Muir wanted to keep the Yosemite Valley wild. People where moving in and cutting giant redwoods down for housing and grazing livestock which was destroying the land. He knew if he didn’t do something the valley would be lost. So he wrote to President Theodore Roosevelt and asked for help to protect these areas. He accepted and they visited and camped in Muir’s favorite places. Roosevelt saw the need to protect this wilderness and with Muir’s help they created five national parks and sixteen national monuments.
John Muir’s contributions to society are many. He founded the Sierra Club and wrote many books that you can still read today. Many things where named after him like Muir Woods National Monument, hiking trails, plenty of plants and animals, schools, roads and towns, glaciers, and even a planet! John Muir fought for preservation and because of him, to this day, there are 63 national parks, and 129 national monuments.
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”
- John Muir
This cache is a large camouflaged container that you can access off of Old Mill Trail and Beaver Lake Trail. From the cache locaion you'll have a nice view of the Beaver Lake Dam. The cache includes a John Muir quarter and a giant redwood pinecone for the first to find. There is also a box of famous John Muir quotes: Please take one! No trade required. Please rehide as found and hopefully you learned something new! HAPPY CACHING!!!
Huge Thanks to Goplayoutside for helping me to get this cache published and congratulations for the well deserved first to find!
This cache is located within Pocahontas State Park and placed with permission of Park Management in accordance of Virginia DCR's Geocaching & Letterboxing Guidelines. Parking fees apply, day searching only, please CITO and Leave No Trace.