Pine Mountain Ridge Runner
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Well It has been a while since I made a real interesting cache hunt so I thought I would remedy the situation.
Let me know what you think. Check out the other attraction here later on at night.
This is a nice little stroll around that knob of ground South of Millican, Pine Mountain.
As your heading along the Highway 20 trying to locate the starting spot, you will be able to look up and see where your heading too.
If you hunted the “Where’s Red” cache, you will know what your looking for as waypoints. If not, your looking for cat food cans with letters in them.
There are 12 stops, including the first stop and the cache itself. This cache hunt is right at 15.0 miles as the crow flies and the waypoints are roughly level. Really roughly as you will see. Plan on being able to spend a lot of time out hiking and some time sitting as you will be driving some. Somewhere around eight hours should be enough. Remember the campground that you see. In case you need it.
There are some rough spots and it would be best to have a high clearance rig, but not needed as you will be able to hike or ride your bike over the rough sections of road, if you follow the road. Bushwhacking is perfectly acceptable.
You can get to the start on good roads and most of the waypoints are reasonably close to a track of some sort.
To get this cache started, Head for the coordinates posted at the head of the page. There is a nice little campground just before you get to the starting point.
There is a parking spot right near the starting point and one of the great views you will be seeing. If you look close enough and the air is clean enough, you will be able to see Fort Rock to the East of East Butte, Hager Mt. at Silver Lake and maybe even the North end of Winter Rim. The starting point is a set of stairs over the fence. If you cross over the fence and head for the rock outcropping, you will be able to see a few points of interest.
Remember them as you will be seeing them again. From really close up.
Now you need to head for the stairs. Your first waypoint is at: 216 feet at 300 degrees, magnetic, from those stairs, behind the "Old growth.”
All the waypoints are projections from one to the next.
In fact, I will give all the waypoints to you right here and now as well as a hint for each waypoint.
Nice guy that I am.
Waypoints with hints
Print this section out as you will need it in the brush.
All you will find in the brush are the cans.
From L1, Project a course of 177 degrees’ magnetic for 0.9 Miles.
Hint for next point: An old root wad with green Pine Tree in front. SE side.
From O, Project a course of 47 degrees’ magnetic for 3.20 Miles.
Hint for next point: Juniper tree, you’ll be really hip here. Underneath a limb.
From G, Project a course of 14 degrees’ magnetic for 1.10 Miles.
Hint for next point: Double butted Pine tree. Several in the area.
From S, Project a course of 273 degrees’ magnetic for 2.50 Miles.
Hint for next point: Large Pine Tree above old skid road.
From C, Project a course of 94 degrees’ magnetic for 1.40 Miles.
Hint for next point: A Large Pine Tree crowded against a boulder. East side.
From A, Project a course of 139 degrees’ magnetic for 0.83 Miles.
Hint for next point: Split Boulder below Rim East Side.
From L2, Project a course of 237 degrees’ magnetic for 1.40 Miles.
Hint for next point: 9” DBH Pine Tree in a stand of yellow bellies. North side.
From E, Project a course of 309 degrees’ magnetic for 0.70 Miles.
Hint for next point: Small Pine Tree with 20” DBH Pine below rock knob, North side and your first “L” can, not marked with a “2”.
From R, Project a course of 62 degrees’ magnetic for 0.90 Miles.
Hint for next point: Curl Leaf Mt. Mahogany on a point. SE side.
From &, Project a course of 303 degrees’ magnetic for 1.0 Miles.
Hint for next point: A Pine tree clump below rimrock. North side.
And for the hint for the cache itself, look for the school marm (forked) Pine Tree. Somewhere right close you will find an ammo can.
These numbers are as close as possible with the equipment that I have to work with. I hope. We will see I guess.
WOW! Is that simple or what? Not really it seems. I have tweaked it too many times.
You should know me better then that by now I would hope. The waypoints are not in this order, as the last ones were. Random selection. Whatever I pulled from the backpack was the way I put them out.
An example of a possible order is: L1 leads to O leads to R leads to & and so on and so forth.
That should keep you busy plotting out all the possible solutions. And some of the waypoints are disguised really well, some not.
You will need the above information with you out in the brush. All you will find out there are the cans.
The first finder will get a gift certificate of some sort to the Pine Tavern Restaurant - www.pinetavern.com.
Just send me the cords for the cache.
I guess at this point I should say that I saw lots of deer but also a lot of Cougar track's while I was placing the waypoints. I also found some old kills and a possible den spot so be careful and watch your backs.
Enjoy your tour of Pine Mountain.
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Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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