Important Notice:
I will be temporarily disabling this geocache due to Forest closures in the area, beginning May 1 2025, to support critical forest restoration efforts. The 34,600-acre closure will last at least one year.
The closure will affect several major access points and recreation areas, including Horse Butte Trailhead, Coyote Butte OHV area, Bessie Butte Trailhead, Boyd Cave, and popular rock pits used for recreational shooting within the project area.
The closure will restrict all access, including day use and overnight camping, while crews operate heavy machinery, conduct prescribed burns, and clean up hazardous materials. The work, aims to reduce wildfire risk and restore damaged habitats in the wildland-urban interface near Bend.
*Need a Large Geocache for a challenge?
I've got you covered.
**Hate Puzzles? Even better, This one is at the posted coordinates.
***Dislike hiking in the woods, through the sagebrush and cheat grass?
You can follow the short trail it will get you almost all the way there.
****Work smarter not harder.
Unless you are like the Fishers, Bend Cache Collectors or Markellie, then you can start over at Conastoga or even better Rickard Road and enjoy your hike,go ahead bring the dogs.
*****Rehide it as well or better than you found it, for the next geocacher.