Just Hit The High Points: Greenwood County Multi-Cache
Badd Companie: This cache will soon be replaced by a newer model that is less susceptable to cud-chewing muggles and pasture burnings.
Just Hit The High Points: Greenwood County
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A short,scenic tour of northwestern Greenwood County visiting a high point of Greenwood County.
Just Hit the High Points is our goal with this cache. In fact, there are multiple potential high points in Greenwood County between 1660 and 1670 feet above sea level.
To help give perspective, consider a small gully washer dumping an inch of rain on the high point. Some of it flows down into Fall River where it will exit this county at 875 feet above sea level. It has already dropped almost half the distance it will ultimately fall before entering the Gulf at the mouth of the Mississippi in Louisiana. All that in Greenwood County. No wonder they call it Fall River! Or, if you prefer it is like an eighty story building going across the county from the high to the low (or climbing 800 steps, so let your truck do the work for you). Can't say Greenwood County is flat!
The first stage of the multi is designed to start you up the right road to the final and help you appreciate the climbing involved. This first stage is a Badd Companie brick with the co-ordinates for the second stage of this cache AND FOR ITS SISTER CACHE in Chase County. Unlike some of my more infamous bricks, this one is easy to find. It is part of a cairn of rocks by itself near the road. There are a lot of rocks nearby, but this pile is off by itself!
After writing down whatever co-ordinates you need (and your truck will thank you for any reduction in wear and tear that you give it), head up hill toward the final. Near the summit, you should see a tower. Set it as a goal because it is near the high point of Greenwood County. You are climbing up out of the Fall River watershed. Ahead of you, beyond the cache, you would enter the Verdigres drainage.
The final is past the fence beyond the tower in open range land. I had a lot of fun going over cattle guards in setting this up. It is a SASO 362 approved ammo box loaded with goodies.
The approach to this cache is a little tough to see on the map, but I think if you head east on a county road from Cassoday for about 15 miles (to N 38 02.577 W 96 20.466) and then turn north, you will be well positioned for an assault on the summit. The idea is to get onto and then over the ridge extending southeast from the summit of Chase County. This is east of the main summit of Texaco Hill. Or, you can come up over the top of Chase and down to here and then up to Greenwood (Kind of sounds like climbing Shavano by going over the top of Tabeguache)
This cache is intended to be easy. They are two's only because of the work your vehicle will do, not the amount of difficulty you will encouter (however, careless and inattentive driving could raise the level a lot). Four wheel drive is not necessary except in muddy conditions. Low water bridges may be encountered so don't drive through dangerous water. A low rider probably won't make it, don't know about a standard passenger car, my two wheel drive Ford Ranger had no problems.
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