About the Series
The Greater Palmer Fall Foliage Tour is a collection of four
caches: a
traditional cache (Fox Hill, Palmer), a
multi cache (Devil's Peak, West Warren), a
letterbox hybrid (Mt. Dumplin, Palmer), and a
puzzle cache (Swift River, Belchertown). You will need to track
down the first three caches and collect some numbers from them to
find the puzzle cache. If you are First to Find on the puzzle
cache, you will become the proud owner of an unactivated 2007 Podcacher
Geocoin
This series could be subtitled "Revenge of Dosido's Muggled
Caches" as the 4 locations have all held caches that we placed, and
were subsequently muggled.
As fall is my favorite season, all of these locations are
fantastic spots to view and enjoy the fantastic colors of New
England!
The Letterbox Hybrid
This cache is a letterbox hybrid, which means that you have the
option of finding the cache using your GPSr, or by following
written prose/clues and find it letterbox style.
This cache is atop Mt. Dumplin in Palmer proper. Mt. Dumplin was
home to our aptly named
Mt. Dumplin Lookout cache, as well as the recently archived
What Can You See From Here?
The Muggle Story
Our Mt. Dumplin Lookout cache was stolen by a muggle, and
Trialsrider found that a note was left
taunting us, and challenging us to find it somewhere on Mt.
Dumplin. I gamely looked, but did not find it. JeepersCreepers also
had a multi cache here that had the initial stages disappear.
Cache Info
Since this is a letterbox hybrid, the cache contains a stamp as
well as a logbook. Feel free to stamp in, but do not take the stamp
or the stamp pad, those are there for the letterboxers to use!
The cache is a medium size lock-n-lock that we stole from
Xiadog, and while not her usual ammo can canvas, the cache was
decorated by Alexa. There is a collection of kids items to trade
for, as well as a unactivated micro benchmark geocoin for the First
to Find.
The walk is about 1.2 miles roundtrip, but the views are well
worth the hike!
Please rehide well, as the top of Mt. Dumplin is frequented
often by visitors! Good Luck!
Remember that hunting season starts soon - wear your blaze
orange when out caching!
One of the views from Mt. Dumplin