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1) Cowan Paddle Traditional Cache

Hidden : 9/2/2022
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Welcome to Cowan Lake State Park.  For more information on the park

https://ohiodnr.gov/go-and-do/plan-a-visit/find-a-property/cowan-lake-state-park

Park Hours: 6am to 11pm daily. Visitors are permitted to actively engage in legitimate recreational activities outside these hours. If you have questions, call the park office.

Park Office: (937) 382-1096; 8am to 5pm Monday-Friday

Nature Center: Winter Hours: Thursday 10am to 2pm, Friday 2pm to 6pm, and Saturday 10am to 6pm

 

 

This set of geocaches require to special pieces of equipment.  The caches are accessible only by boat.   They were placed by kayak.  The hides are 15x95mm centrifuge tubes.  The logs will generally need to be extracted with tweezers, hemostat, or something like needle nose plyers.

There are a number of places to put in on the lake for no fee.   Waypoints are listed.

The distance around the lake as about 9 miles.

The caches were placed when the lake was at summer pool.  Only a trinkle of water was running over the spillway.  The caches should be accessible when the water is maybe a foot below the spillway or a foot above the spillway.  A place to park and observe the spillway is listed as a waypoint.

Hint Nomenclature:

PMD=Pull me down  The cache might be a little beyond your reach, but the limb is thin enough to be pulled down by a reachable end

SYC= sycamore tree

Often, I can't Identify tree so I just describe them best I can. (If you are a tree person - let me know about any cache and I'll update my hints.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

yrnare fueho

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)