Please use the stated trailhead coordinates as your start point. The final coordinates are given as a waypoint.
Everyone, cacher or letterbox seeker, should use the letterbox instructions and photos when close to the final location. Using 2 GPSes on 2 days at different times of the day, I still had large differences in readings. The cache is less than 25 feet off the main trail.
This is a book cache. The books I originally placed in the cache are registered with Bookcrossing.com.
- you are free to take a book.
- leaving a book is optional.
- when you finish the book, please pass it on to someone else.
- come back for more books as often as you like.
- let me know when supplies run low, and I will add more books.
- books are in plastic bags for protection. Please leave the bags in the cache for future books.
- please leave nothing in the cache unless it is a book.
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Letterbox instructions:
- enter Squaxin (formerly Priest Point) Park.
- walk or drive past the Rose Garden and pavilion and then the parks maintenance buildings.
- continue uphill to a silver gate on you left.
- start down the trail marked "No horses or motor vehicles on trail."
- continue wandering past the parks soil/rock storage area. Here your pathway narrows.
- after almost a tenth of a mile you should notice a large erratic rock on your right
- continue on the foot path a quite a distance, a few tenths of a mile, ignoring all pathways heading downhill on your left.
- enjoy the many enormous cedar trees as you go. Think of the natives who first established the area. They stripped only small sections of the cedar bark for clothing, mats, and baskets and many other things. That allowed the trees to continue to live.
- cross a bridge-like structure which was a 2015 Eagle project built to prevent water from covering the trail at that point. *see photo
- continue to a bench which has a plastic covering. Lift it is you want to sit, and recover when you leave to keep the bench dry.
- go about 75 1-step paces; you should see a tree with a little cave on your left.
- take a few more steps to a large stump on your right, noticing just beyond that a small stump and a cut end of a log. *see photo
- walk between the small stump and cut log to the root ball about 20' off the path. *see photo
- the cache is behind the root ball.
You can return by reversing your route or just continue on the same trail to loop back to where you parked.
PLEASE re-hide the large container well to keep it safe.