The U.S. Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) maintains over 100 miles of trails in the
White Mountains Recreation Area. The route to "Lunch
Rock" may be traversed by skiing, skijoring,
snowshoeing, mushing, and snowmachine in the winter and on
foot, mountain bike, or ATV weighing less than 1500 pounds
GVW in the summer. Please respect the motorized and
nonmotorized designations in the White Mountains National
Recreation Area. Be prepared for subzero temperatures
and blowing snow in the winter months and a very healthy
mosquito population in the spring and summer months.
The trailhead is oftentimes 10 to 20 degrees warmer but
windier than the Fairbanks airport during the
winter.
The most direct trailhead access is
from the Wickersham
Creek Trailhead at Milepost 28 of the Elliot Highway.
Sign in at the trailhead and proceed east on the Wickersham Dome
Trail approximately four miles to Lunch Rock. Enjoy the views
of the White
Mountains Range and Beaver Creek
National Wild and Scenic River drainage to the northeast,
and the Alaska Range to the south, and have fun looking for the
cache. You may continue on to the Lee's Cabin Fever Reliever
Cache another 2.3 miles further on, or return to the
trailhead.
The original cache contents include
log book with pencils and pen, hand and foot warmers, toilet paper,
waterproof match holder and fire starters (bring your own ignition
source), flashlight with batteries, geocaching.com compass zipper
pull, 5-in-1 survival tool, emergency blanket, two Alaska key
chains, fish necklace, flower pin, dancing bear pin, moose pin,
green and orange lightsticks, sunscreen, mini first aid kit,
Tylenol, Alaska magnet, and a Fairbanks, Alaska patch. The
cache also contains a camera to capture cachers' images.
Please take your photo and leave the camera in the
cache.
Many thanks to BLM Alaska's Northern Field
Office for supporting geocaching as an approved
recreational activity on BLM lands.
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