Later, Dude Letterbox Hybrid
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A large (50 Cal.) ammo can about .17 miles from highway 87 just north of milepost 285. Level walk in open meadow-like setting except for last few yards. Suitable for all ages and abilities and for animal companions. At 6900 feet, may be difficult in winter.
The Letterbox Hybrid should have been named Dirtyneck Tank but I didn't know how to carve a stamp depicting a dirty neck. It is, however, located in Dirtyneck Canyon and more specifically at Dirtyneck Tank. The dam creating the tank has been breeched and may be repaired, but "later, Dude" Stock tanks are small earthen ponds usually created by ranchers. Their primary purpose is to provide water for livestock and wildlife. They are designed to capture runoff water from rain and/or snowmelt. They are constructed by scooping out a shallow basin in a drainage and forming a low earthen dam. The average water depth in these stock tanks is usually no more than 3 or 4 feet and in years of low rainfall, these stock tanks can dry up. They are easily breeched, especially if they fill to overflowing. Parking is alongside state route 87 just at a gate through the right-of-way fence. The road is closed but open to foot traffic. Please practice "Leave no trace." This is a Letterbox Hybrid geocache. It functions just like any other geocache and has exchange items and a log. Signing the geocache log is all that is required to claim full credit for the find. The cache also contains the paraphernalia for Letterboxing, which entails exchanging rubber stamp images instead of exchange items. Participating in this aspect of a hybrid geocache is purely voluntary. Letterboxing activity requires that the letterbox contain a rubber stamp and something to accept the impression of rubber stamps. The finder also needs to have a personal rubber stamp, an ink pad and something in which to record stamp images. The finder thus develops a collection of impressions from the stamps in the various letterboxes found and each letterbox develops a collection of impressions from the finders. The stamps can be hand- made or commercial. If you have the items you need for Letterbox Hybrids, you also have the items needed to participate in finding free standing Letterboxes. More information is available at www.letterboxing.org
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