THE GEOCACHES
You’re looking for a geocache the size of a shoebox, placed just off the trail. If you’re lucky you might see some trolls that may greet you here. This geocache is one of the many that have been placed for the 2023 West Bend $1,000 Cache Ba$h, with this year’s theme being Blast From the Past. There are 5 geocaches located here at Cedar Valley Retreat Center, all in close proximity to trails and placed with permission. Hours are from dawn to dusk. The management has asked that you please do not feed the trolls! Parking is available in the parking lot at N43 28.120 W88 18.265.
THE GROUNDS
Cedar Valley Retreat Center is a 100-acre private property with trails, ponds, a creek, woods, prairies, farmland, sculptures, and numerous buildings that host people and events, including retreats and many kinds of art workshops. As part of the United Church Camps Outdoor Ministry, they welcome people to stroll the grounds to enjoy the peace and quiet of the outdoors. Suggested route if you’re looking for all five caches is to start with the Old MacDonald Had a Farm cache just east of here at the farm and go in a “mostly” counter-clockwise direction, as shown on the helpful map presented below. Without the map it can be easy to get lost as there are numerous trails, some of which are not always marked. None of the caches are near the main buildings. Two of the caches are letterbox hybrids so that geocachers have directions on when and where to turn on the trails. Total distance if following the map to the geocaches is approximately 1.5 miles round trip.
Usually most visitors are requested to check in at the main lodge when walking the grounds (they’re friendly folks), but for those seeking the geocaches here they can go directly to the caches without checking in. Since it is private property please stay on the trails as much as possible.
A BIT OF TROLL TRIVIA
While trolls range in size from large to very tiny, their primary characteristics have always included their wild, crazy combed-up hair, their bulbous noses, big friendly eyes, and oversized ears. They’re so odd-looking that they’re adorably cute, and you can’t help but smile when you see one.
Troll Dolls, also known as Good Luck Trolls, are a type of plastic doll (you can call them, ahem, "action figures") with furry up-combed hair created by a Danish woodcutter named Thomas Dam. The trolls were first created in 1959 and became one of the United States' biggest toy fads in the early 1960s. They became briefly popular again throughout the 1970s to 1990s. Toll mania hit hard beginning in 2016 with a series of 3D computer-animated movies, and their popularity continues to this day. Have you discovered a troll… lately?
We hope you enjoy your walk at Cedar Valley!
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