Morgan Pond Cache Traditional Cache
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Morgan Pond is located in Springfield, NH and is the fifth in our remote pond series.
Morgan Pond is the fifth in our remote pond series of caches. I had not been there in many years and was most pleased to find it still remote and un-used.
There are two ways to go to this cache and we took one way in and another out. I’m giving directions to out first as it was by far the easiest and most straight forward. Get off Rt. 89 at Exit 12 A and go east on Georges Mills Road for 1.4 miles. When Georges Mills Road dead-ends onto Rt. 114 go left for 1.8 miles to Bowman Road on the right. In .1 mile take a right onto Webster Pass. You are looking for an old woods road on the left that is .3 miles up and just after Webster Pass becomes a Class VI highway. We put a red flag on this road about 30 feet up the road on the left. Coords are 43 28.571N and 072 02.330 W. You will see places to park on the side of the road. Take this woods road most of the way to the cache then a trail. It is less than a mile and we came out in 45 minutes. There are some very muddy sections of this road so be prepared to go around them. Lots of moose prints.
If you want excitement, take the way we went in. Just up the road on the left is a trailhead for the Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway system. Coords are 48 28.468 N and 072 02.362 W. Follow this trail, which is blazed with white patches, for less than a half-mile. When you come to an ancient grown up roadway with stonewalls on each side and the trail makes a 90 degree turn to the right (south). Stop. Enter waypoint 43 28.504 N and 72 01.732 W into you GPS. This is the closest that the trail gets to the woods road mentioned above. You then have to bushwhack about 750 feet through slash, etc. This bushwhack is to the left. Once you intersect the woods road follow the directions above. This way took us about an hour.
The cache is well stocked with the usual goodies and two travel bugs that need to get out of here prior to winter. This cache should be accessable during the winter and would make an excellent x-country ski or snowshoe outing. There is a nice rock by the water to use for a picnic and someone has left a fire pit with grill. The cache in an ammo can is about 65 paces from the clearing.
FTF: flyingfisher
Additional Hints
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