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Glen's Footbridge Traditional Cache

Hidden : 4/5/2006
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Plenty of parking here. Area can be mushy at times. Keep a watch on small children. It is best not to climb on the footbridge. The property owner has given permission to place the cache here. Please be respectful of his generosity.

Back in the early 1990', a group of us started what has now become known as "The Thurday Hikers". Fluffy was one of the original members.

A few years later Glen Cantrell joined the group. Glen and his family, grew up in what is now the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Specifically, in the Greenbriar area not too far from here.

If you ever had the privilige to hike in the Smoky's with Glen, you would come away with a wealth of knowledge about the area and how the people lived "back when".

Back in 1996, Glen built this footbridge so we could easily get across to the parking area because we were going to build a cabin rental business there. You see Glen had once worked in the trail maintenance dept. for the Great Smoky Mtns. He hand hewn it just like they used to do when they built the ones in the Park.

Time has taken it's toll on the footbridge, but it is still usable and on any given day you may see Glen sitting over in his "tool shed" peering out at you while you look for the cache.

If you see him out, give him a wave. If you have time, sit down and talk with him about days gone by. I promise you will come away with a better understanding of how things were in these mountains pre-National Park




If you are caching for a team that consists of more than one geocaching account you must write the names of each cacher with their own account on the log sheet or I will delete your log. I hate to be this way but we have had a problem with this lately. If your team name is for one account only then the team name is fine. Thanks for following the cache rules. Happy Caching.

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Decryption Key

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