Sycolin Creek Cache Traditional Cache
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Park at N 39°03.831', W 077° 30.661'. The cache is located in Two Creeks Trail Area, a new 19-acre site located near mile marker 30, on the north side of the W&OD trail between Goose and Sycolin Creeks.
Before we begin, an important caveat: You may want to wear bug spray and/or remember to check yourself for ticks once you leave the park. Seriously. This place is full of them.
My trustworthy and never-complaining assistant Rigelkitty tagged along amid approaching thunderstorms to help me place this cache. The cache is a .50 cal ammo box and is at least 1/2 mile from the nearest parking area, so you'll have to walk a bit. Take your time; stop at the quarry overlook along the way.
Two Creeks Trail Area has two sets of trails, one for walking/horseback riding, and one for mountain biking. The walking trail is recommended to get to the cache. (There are posts to chain up bikes if you have them.)
On the way, you will pass along Goose Creek. In 1849, the Goose Creek and Little River Navigation Company attempted to make the creek navigable by turning it into a 20-mile canal. (The canal ran out of money during its construction, and facing competition from the railroad, eventually dissolved in 1857.)
Keep an eye out for deer as you make your way to the cache! They like to hang out in the underbrush, especially around dusk.
Original cache contents:
- Internet Puzzle Adventure
- United States Travel Trivia Book
- Nice pen
- Carrying handle thing
- AOL yo-yo
- Timon beanie baby
- Colored chalk
- Tiny skunk figurine
- Plastic lizard (for your computer monitor... it's a monitor lizard, get it?)
- Mardi Gras beads
- Spider Man squirter
- Freaky-looking binoculars
- Crayons (from the Crayola Factory in Easton, PA!)
- Cassette tape: Billboard Rock n Roll hits
- Cassette tape: Against All Odds soundtrack
- Cassette tape: Chopin Favorites
- Cassette tape: All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten
- Toy castle pieces
- Stimpy's head
The cache also includes a disposable camera. Take a picture of yourself/your cache-hunting group when you visit.
Please rehide the cache as well or better than you found it. Thanks!
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