This cache is one of series dedicated to the Green Man. Each
cache portrays a different rendition of this whimsical legend,
which dates back to the Middle Ages, if not before. Each cache will
be placed in an area that evokes in us a feeling of playfulness.
Quite frankly, it’s visiting places like this that makes us want to
be geocachers.
The Green Man is a legendary spirit that inhabits forests, an
emblem of the ever-renewing cycle of life. From Wikipedia:
“Superficially the Green Man would appear to be pagan, perhaps a
fertility figure or a nature spirit, similar to the woodwose (the
wild man of the woods), and yet he frequently appears, carved in
wood or stone, in churches, chapels, abbeys and cathedrals, where
examples found dating from the 11th century through to the 20th
century.”
The Green Man appears frequently in literature, too. He is
Puck/Robin Goodfellow in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,”
he is the Green Knight in the Arthurian legend “Sir Gawain and the
Green Night,” and in more modern times, he is Peter Pan. We are
enthralled by his legend, and we hope you will be enthralled with
these caches.
In the winter, you must have cross-country skis or
snowshoes to access this cache. No walking and no dogs are allowed
on the ski trails. The cache should be accessible until there are
three feet of snow on the ground. You will need to go “off-trail”
for a short distance to get to the cache, but you will be hidden
from view at the cache site.
Click
here to download a pdf file of the park trail map.
In the summer, you can drive to and park within a few hundred
feet of the cache.