Which Watershed is Which?
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Easy straight forward Multi, no big puzzles to solve just gathering information. You wont even have to get out of the car until you get to the final.You wont get wet, unless its raining, no thorns and no slopes, steep or otherwise. Just a nice leisurely drive around historic Waterford.
The coordinates listed are not for the Cache itself, but for the first phase of a three step multi cache crossing you from The Great Lakes watershed to the Mississippi Watershed. This area was important to the French, British and American supply lines at various times in our history.The coords for the final are N 41 57.XXX W 080 01.YYY.
At the First step, you will find on the Northwest corner a small white SR marker, Reverse the numbers on Line 2 of the marker side facing south (the number is different on north side) and replace YYY. Be advised that one of the roads is an extremely busy one but you should be able to drive by and get the info you need.
On your way to the second stop, be sure to stop at coords N 41 58.730 W 080 02.593 and see where Elk Creek flows northwesterly from the wetlands to the southeast. Elk Creek flows into Lake Erie more that 30 miles from this point. This is the first road crossing and you can see the stream here does not even warrant a guardrail, if it did there would be a cache there! Now continue to coords N 41 57.866 W 080 02.065. At this location please note the address of the house on the east side of the road. Take the last 3 numbers of the address on the green reflective placard on the mailbox and replace XXX for the final. Again you can get this without stopping.
Continue a little further south and watch to the east until you see the water that feeds both Elk Creek and Trout Run, that runs southerly into Lake LeBeouf and ultimately into LeBeouf and French Creeks, and the Allegheny, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. This area is quite unique in as much as that divide of both watersheds are so close.
Now to the final, it is a micro hidden in the usual way along a quiet dirt country road. All stops are within 2 miles of the final, well at least as the crow flies and total journey is less than 5 miles There is absolutely no reason to go onto any private land, posted or otherwise. In fact the only time you will need to leave your vehicle is to sign the log, make sure you BYOP!
Thanks and hope you enjoy our first hide!
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