Introduction
This cache is located in the
Frances Hildreth Townes Forest, 543 acres of conservation land
owned by the New
England Forestry Foundation. NEFF is running a GeoChallenge
this year: the "official" cache goes live May 20th or so. I've
received permission to place several other caches in the forest to
support the GeoChallenge cache, as well as the
Frog Rock CITO that took place on May 6th. As we all know, the
more caches there are, the more cachers there are!
This cache is part of the Excelsior Loop (see below).
The Cache
The cache is hidden in plain sight. You do not need to look under
anything to find it. You do, however, must be looking from the
right direction to see it! And it is, of course, camouflaged rather
well if I do say so myself.
You will need to bring your own pencil but you won't need
tweezers for this one!
A Micro in the Woods????
I had the idea for this hide while working on
NEEDLE in a HAYSTACK, which as of this typing, I've still not
found. Until I did
Osprey Blind and tried Needle I had thought the idea of a micro
in the woods was, well, how should I put it, stupid. But I
enjoyed both of those caches and since I thought up this hide, why
not place it? I mean, it beats staying home and playing Solitaire,
right?
Hmmm, the black 6 goes on the red 7. Then put the red 8 on the
black 9, which lets you place the black 7 on the freshly placed 8.
Off you duff, go find the cache!
Parking Instructions
The designated parking lot is on the 2nd NH Turnpike about a
mile south of the intersection of the turnpike with the
Lyndeborough Road. From the intersection, travel south for about a
mile until you come to Frog Rock Road on your left, which is (of
course!) unmarked. This road is just past Hopkins Road on your
right. Look closely for Frog Rock Road since it is somewhat
overgrown and on a sharp curve of the turnpike. Do not park on Frog
Rock Road (it is a Class 6 fire road), but rather park just to the
south where there is an unpaved wide spot that will easily hold 4
cars.
The Excelsior Loop
Since this area is not very populated, not many cachers visit
the area and I thought that placing several caches here would
attract cachers to the NEFF cache. This idea grew into the
Excelsior Loop. The Loop consists of the following caches
done in this order:
From the Nash Rambler cache you can then hike to the NEFF cache
directly or return to the Frog Rock Road and find the NEFF cache
with the letterboxing clues. When you do the loop you'll have
completed: a traditional, a multi, a micro, a letterbox hybrid and
a puzzle plus the traditonal disguised as a puzzle!
Note: Early logs will be deleted.