Take a walk or ride thru the parks: Rest Stop #4 Traditional Cache
Take a walk or ride thru the parks: Rest Stop #4
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Have you ever taken a long road trip and made frequent stops along the way at rest areas to refresh yourself and stretch? The “Take a walk or ride thru the parks” series of caches provides you with an opportunity to walk or bicycle on path ways around Lake Arlington and neighboring parks and to pause at a few Rest Stops along the way to sit awhile and enjoy the scenery, enjoy a drink from a water fountain (in season), get rid of any trash you may be carrying, have a picnic lunch, and, of course, look for a hidden geocache.
Most of the Rest Stops in this series of caches have trees and bushes, benches and/or tables, a trash container, and a water fountain (except one) for your convenience. Two have a bike rack and one even has a porta-potty (seasonal) within about 200 feet. However, besides providing you with these common “rest” amenities they also provide opportunity to hide a cache.
Just to keep it interesting, there is one “undeveloped” rest stop, RS #5, with no amenities and one scenic/informative rest stop, RS #0, which provides for a scenic and informative pause in your
walk / ride around the lake.
No bushwacking is involved in pursuing this series of caches. All walking is along paved paths and the Rest Stops are adjacent to the path except two which require an easy walk down a gentle grassy slope or over a generally flat grassy area. However, just like the heavy automobile traffic we encounter on the highways at times, there will be a lot of pedestrian and bicycle traffic on the path during certain times of the day. So please use stealth tactics when searching for a cache if there are lots of muggles out. You won’t have to be a contortionist or perform any unnatural acrobatics while searching. All the caches can be easily and covertly reached with simple natural body motions – bending over, sitting, arm extension, kneeling, etc. The benches and/or tables at the Rest Stops provide a comfortable place to fill out the log. All the caches contain only a paper log so please bring your own pencil.
If you feel adventuresome after finding the Rest Stop series of caches and would like to do some “off-path” caching, follow the path around to the North side of the lake where you will find the forested natural areas which at last count contain 5 caches concealed in the natural settings. There are easy and hard ways to access these caches and I will leave that up to you --- good luck.
FYI night cachers – posted closing time of the parks is 11 PM.
I hope you have a pleasant and successful path trip and enjoy the Rest Stops along the way.
May the Lord bless your day.
dcachfinder
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Rest Stop #4 is at the NE corner of the main path encircling Lake Arlington.
It features a bench, a water fountain (seasonal), a trash container, and a bike rack for the bicyclers.
Looking towards the lake from the rest stop you can observe the full south shore and also take in an expansive diagonal view of Lake Arlington. Frequently you will see waterfowl landing, taking off, or swimming in a line on the water. At times you may see fish jumping out of the water (spawning season), kayakers, and sail boaters in the distance.
At the lakeshore very close to this rest stop you can observe one of the feeder pipes that supply water to the lake. It has a large iron grate at the pipe opening to control debris flow.
On the opposite side of the rest stop is an open field running into a forested area where in late afternoon you may see deer feeding on grass in the field at the edge of the forest.
The cache hidden at his rest stop is a nano container – sorry, but I did have to include a little more challenging cache in the series.
You may find a decoy cache hidden here.
If you do, please put it back where you found it and continue your search.
A plus hint -- the nano will not be on the same structure as you found the decoy.
So you will have eliminated that possibility.
When searching for the cache, be aware of potential muggle eyes from the path from both directions especially during high path traffic times because the cache location is in view from the path.
So ………
Use STEALTH when searching, retrieving, and returning this cache to preserve its integrity and hidden identity from muggles.
Since the cache container is a nano, it would be a very good idea to bring along the proper ToTT for handling the log and putting it back in the container.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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