There's room enough to park a vehicle at the entrance of the pit
(off Glen Road in MacLellan's Brook) There are several ways (of
varying difficulty levels) of getting to the cache site, but you
DO NOT need to climb the cliffs, nor would we recommend it.
If you're getting your hands involved getting up to the cache,
you're trying too hard and putting yourself in unnecessary
danger.
The best route to the cache starts with that very obvious trail
to your left as soon as you enter the pit proper. Climb to the
second plateau (the trail to it is also obvious), and then
cross over to the other side. After a rather steep jaunt uphill
through some small trees (no bushwhacking), you'll be upon the
cache site in no time. You'll have to push a few branches out of
the way near the cache.
The cache is a small, flat, transparent container. It's on the
ground in a stand of young evergreen trees. Due to its small size,
and the very infrequent traffic around this cache, it is NOT ideal
for trackables (travel bugs, geocoins, etc.) Please, there are many
high-traffic caches in New Glasgow that see far more cachers than
this one, put your bugs there - their owners will thank you! To
travel bug owners, we'll try to grab any bug that lands here ASAP
and send it on it's way via a nearby higher traffic cache.
Although this cache is there all year round, finding it in
winter will be next to impossible.
Once found, please stash it back exactly where you
found it (we've had no end of problems with this in the past), with
the lid tightly sealed, and right side up.
By the way... It's only 155m above sea level, but the view from
the top of the pit (about 30-40m from the cache) offers a view of
all five towns of Pictou County, binoculars are a must! The view at
night is just as impressive, but if you try this one at night,
please take care around the edges of the plateaus... each
one is a 20m drop straight down.
Finally, this cache is well known to a few muggle kids/teens
in the area, but they only seem to enjoy signing the logbook
from time to time.
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This cache page was last updated May 9th, 2011. Please make sure
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