Firebase C2 Traditional Cache
Hidden : 4/3/2005
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Standard .50cal ammo box painted primer brown

This cache is placed near the Holston High Knob Lookout Fire tower at 4170 ft elevation. Be prepared for a .68-mile hike and elevation change of about 400ft. Did I say… Come prepared? Yup !



 
“In Vietnam, for troops newly arrived in-country, VC and NVA seemed to be everywhere. You were never sure who was following you. Early units worked from many different bases. These included Camp Carroll (a large USMC Artillery fire support base), temporary bases near Wonder Beach and Fire Support Bases A3, A4 and C2. These latter three were part of the defunct MacNamara Line. A3 was an open area west of Highway 1 and quite close to the DMZ. It overlooked the site of the destroyed village of Gia Binh. A4 was also known as Con Thien (a Vietnamese village by that name had once been there) and, as the highest ground in the area, the French and then the USMC had occupied it. C2 was south of A4 and to the north of the populated village of Cam Lo and the Cam Lo resettlement village. These old bases were not nice places. Infested with rats, surrounded by unmarked and unmapped mine fields (some inside the perimeter wire) and both dry and dusty or hip deep in mud or sometimes both, they were not the ideal home away from home.”

From: 1st BN 61st INFANTRY
Credit given to 1st BN 61st INFANTRY Website

 

This C2 won’t have anything like that, although some would argue that.  Once you get up to the top where the tower is, check out the view and then find the large C2 on the west side of the tower.  Your not far from the cache now.

 

Access vie Panhandle Rd and park at N 36 27.604, W082 05.321. Do not block the gate. Forest Service and other authorized do sometimes need access to the road.


Please do not leave any food products or anything that smells like food (i.e. fruit scented items). Animals will find and destroy the cache if you do. Thanks.



FTF HONORS GO TO Rob Roy !!!



Great Smokey Mountain Geocaching Club


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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

vafvqr ubyybj ybt qbja uvyy sebz gbjre naq cbjre cbyr

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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