Columbia City's seaport dreams Traditional Cache

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brodiebunch: The sun has set on our three remaining geocaches.

We live 30 miles away so it's no longer feasible to maintain these geocaches.

These geocaches have all good long lives, 13 to 14 years old.

We may someday own a cache near our home.

Right now its best for us to be geocache finders than geocache owners.

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Hidden : 9/10/2004
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Dreams of grandeur in SE Seattle.....

Before Lake Washington was lowered nine feet in 1917, Genesee Park was known as Wetmore Slough and extended on to Rainier Avenue and the little town of Columbia City.

Residents of Columbia City once hoped to make their town into an important seaport by dredging the slough to allow the passage of ships. The departing waters left only marshlands and little islands, with hardly enough water to sail a toy boat.

The far end of the slough was completely filled in about 1920. In 1947, when the city purchased the property, the city began a "sanitary fill" between Genesee and Lake Washington Blvd. This fill was composed mostly of garbage and was anything but sanitary. It attracted flocks of seagulls and hordes of rats for almost two decades.

After 1957, it also attracted hordes of hydroplane fans, who parked their cars there and went off to watch the annual Gold Cup races from the new Stan Sayres hydro pits.

Seattle voters approved the area as a park in 1960, but development did not begin until after 1968. Genesee is among the many parks built on foundations of recycled garbage.

The cache is off a trail that runs along the eastern edge of the park. A geo trail leads east from main trail near some exercise bars. There is some tree cover that may hinder GPS readings, so please post any coordinate variations. Gloves and/or long sleeves strongly suggested. Please re-hide it well. In late July/early August the park fills up with RV's for the Hydroplane races.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ghpxrq haqrearngu n cvrpr bs pbapergr.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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