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Post by SSO JOAT on May 28, 2011 22:48:50 GMT -9
Today I went up the old Wagon Trail by Keystone Canyon and found the 2 caches near the bridge. At the trail junction between the main wagon trail and the dike access trail, there is a cache container under the rock holding up the trail sign. Inside this is a Rite-in-the-Rain logbook that says, "Congratulations! You have found the Wagon Trail Treasure!" (See attached photo) There is no indications that this was a listed GC cache (no geocache-related items or markings and nothing in the log about GC). I did a name search and came up with nothing, though I'm not sure that the name search will recover archived caches (I believe you need the GC# to look at an archived cache listing). Does anyone know anything about this cache? It may just be a placement outside of GC.com or one that has never been listed anywhere online. Or it could be the remains of a long archived cache. The spot is cool, but it's a very short distance (maybe 100-150 feet) from a current and active multi-cache final (which is only about 40 feet from it's published coordinates). Curious minds want to know! ;D Attachments:
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Post by ladybugkids on May 29, 2011 17:33:47 GMT -9
Hi Scott:
Can you give the GC# for the multi? I panned both ends of Keystone and think I know which multi of which you speak, but I can't find anything.
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Post by SSO JOAT on May 29, 2011 18:55:33 GMT -9
The traditional on the nearby bridge is "Old Billy's Revenge" located at GCX2MJThe multi near the 'water diverting pile of rocks' trail junction is "Bear Creek Cache" under GC1RWCNYou've found them both in years past.
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Post by ladybugkids on May 29, 2011 19:55:05 GMT -9
That's what I thought.
There's nothing in the historical database. It's possible the cache owner was declined on a proximity issue, recycled the cache page, and never went back to pick up the container.
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Post by SSO JOAT on May 29, 2011 20:06:01 GMT -9
I should have snapped pix and paid more attention to the log entries as the book is full of them. But it was getting late and I needed to get to the bridge to find the real cache and get back to Valdez soon.
This container's log has more entries in it than both of the nearby caches do. I don't remember the date of the first entry, but it's been there for several years. I do remember that there were a lot of entries that were real names coupled with places from and date visited. It looked more like a visitor center logbook than a geocache log. Makes me wonder if there is something, somewhere that is pointing people to find this. Perhaps a letterbox style description of this "treasure" is posted at the trailhead or at the visitor center back in Valdez?
It was a rather interesting accidental find, that's for sure. If I wouldn't have stopped to fix the fallen down trail access sign, I wouldn't have found this mystery container. I wonder if some of the long-time Valdez cachers would have a backstory on this one?
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