Layton Place

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Hidden On: 27 Mar 2003
Waypoint (Landmark): N022B8
Open Cache:  Non-commercial use only
Cache type:  Multi-Part
Cache size:   Normal

Difficulty:  (moderate)
Terrain:  (moderate)

Misc:

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Clues:    decode

• Clue 1 
  vafvqr ng pbasyhrapr bs gjb ragenapr ghaaryf

• Clue 2 
  fghzc raq bs ubyybj ybt irel pybfr gb qenvantr qvgpu>

Being from Miami any chance to explore the wonderful sights of PA is a treasure and this one did not disappoint. The caves are SO cool! The hike to the final was long, but enjoyable with good company. Definitely got in my exercise for the day. A bike would've been perfect, but alas, it just won't fit in the overhead bin of my regular Embraer jet. Like geogirty said, the resting place of the final is decomposing and going back to the land, but the ammo can itself is in great shape. Hope more people go for this one. It is worth it. Thanks for the memorable day!
[Modified 2009-10-05 10:34:31]

Spectacular Fall day, perfect for the Layton Place adventure.There are places that you would never imagine existed, were it not for caching. This is one of those seldom seen places. I have crossed the bridge and tunnel, amazing on their own but had no clue about the cliffs and caves above them. I was out with Lj and gladeslvr and we carefully made our way into the unknown. Found the first stage without too much trouble, coming out we ran into an old couple, probably in their late 60's climbing up the cliffs from the bike parking area in cowboy boots and high heels. We went back to show them the caves and found Ljs car keys laying on the trail. Sometimes you just have to accept things, and not question why(?)...Walked the 2.5 miles up to the final stage,with Lois pushing Scruff the dog in a baby stroller, we must have looked rather surreal. She and the dog hung back and glades and I went on to find the cache. Hadn't read the clue which might have helped. Seems time and nature had swallowed the ammo can into its decomposing mouth. I don't know how we found it.. we just did. Cache is in great shape. Sealed it back into its little tomb to sleep another three years. Thanks for a great hide and a great time. Last dated entry was October 20, 2006
[Modified 2009-10-05 19:20:57]

  Cliffs, Caves and Cowboys
  Ashes to ashes,dust to dust

Another quality QuestMaster hide! I had a little difficulty at stage #1, and it wasn't because I forgot my flashlight! You know you're in trouble when you find the sticker for the cache container first! After another 10 minutes of searching, I found the pipe and the 35mm container lying in the open in the middle of the floor. Fortunately, whoever discovered stage #1 left it there and even better, they left the coordinates for stage #2. Based on the clue, I put it back where I thought it should be. Then I hopped on my bike and found stage #2 with ease. Thanks for a cool cache!!!

Wow, what a cool cache! Definitely somewhat of a challenge. I decided to use some common sense and a flashlight to find stage one, didn't feel like using a pick and shovel. It still took me a while to figure it out. Very good hide on stage one. Had to use the clue because of poor GPS reception. Spent a good bit of time just looking around at the area of the first stage. Very interesting.
Then it was time to head for the final stage. I took Quest Master's advice and brought my bike along to make the trek to the final stage. Nice ride. Didn't need the clue for this one, the GPSr took me right to it! I took a glowstick and left a little magic eight ball and a moo cow! I signed the log and rehid the cache as I found it.

This one ranks right up there with QM's Sand Quarry cache on my list of favorites so far! Quest Master, thanks for taking me to yet another interesting area! I really enjoyed this one!

JimBat finally found it. After a DNF for no flashlight and 2 DNFs for a baby deer laying at the final stage I finally was able to finish this one off today. Found stage 1 two weeks ago. Really cool place that I never knew was there. I must of been across Layton Bridge a hundred times and never knew stage 1 was there. Even lots of the locals I talked to dont know about it. Please follow Questmasters advice on how to get up to it and what items to bring to help you find it or you'll probably be logging a DNF like I did my first time. Today I started at Dawson and rode my bike down river to the cache site. Really neat campground nearby for the bikers to spend the night. The cache was well hidden and it looked so natural I looked right at it and kept walking by it the first time before doing a circle and coming back to it. The baby deer Ive been seeing was laying only 25 feet from the cache. Today it wasnt there luckily. Took dollar and left shark tales game. TFTC
[Modified 2007-08-19 12:43:18]

Well, this cache started last week with 3SpyKids on Friday 9/9. We found stage I at 4:30 pm, taking the suggested route up. We absolutely LOVED the location, QM! We were delayed though in continuing on that day because we came across a campsite with a smouldering fire beyond its pit, creeping up the hillside. My wife, Kathy and I agreed that the right thing to do was to call 911 and report the fire. So, I did that, and I gave them the coordinates of the fire. We hiked back down to meet them, because you know how much kids LOVE fire trucks. The Perryopolis firefighters arrived and I took them up THE HARD WAY. He fire broomed it and they left. Snapped a photo. So, we finished it today, at 3:55 pm. This was a long hike, the GPS said 1.2 mi, but it was 2.2 mi on the YRT. Never knew about the campsite on the YRT. The cache was kind of empty, so I took an angel zipper pull for Serena and I stocked the cache with Play-Doh, a glow stick and a big superball. I also dropped off a TB in the cache and gave the other one I had to 3SpyKids. TFTC QM. Yes, Kathy, you beat me... Don't forget to log your first TB!

Found with Kel-Star it was a great time out. We over shot the final by over a mile where busy with girl talk.

3rd of 4 finds today for the whole Nellsnake crew on a crisp and clear autumn day. We headed up to this spot after visiting Virgin Run Lake. We really enjoyed the first stage area and took our time finding the best approach to the spot. It appears that the locals really enjoy this area too. Nellsnake Mom unfortunately slipped and suffered an ankle sprain on the way back trying to get back down to the jeep trail, which took her out of commission for the rest of the day. The kids kept her company in the car while I took a nice jog along the YRT to and from the final stage, which I was able to find fairly quickly once the GPSr settled. I then jogged back to the car--45 min total round trip time. TNLN. Thanks, QM!

And so, several weeks after my abortive first attempt I have a second go at it. At stage 1, I have my flashlight this time and find it on my second circut. I might have been able to find it two weeks ago with my flashing light if I was looking in the right place. Of course, only after finding it do I realize that there was an encrypted hint. If I had the hint back then I probably could have found it without the flashlight.

At Stage 2 I am unable to pin it down. My GPSr says 80ft in that direction. When I move halfway there it says it's still 80ft away. Move another 40 and it says it's somewhere else. I give up and decide to try again on my way back.

I log Little Falls (GC2A35), ride my bike almost down to Ohiopile and come back late in the afternoon.

If you recall my first log, I found a dismembered deer carcass on the jeep trail on my way to Stage 1. Well, my search for Stage 2 brings me to another carcass. This one's a little more recent and stinking up a storm.

I find the cache about 50ft from the carcass (still close enough to smell). I was about to take the three plastic army men to match the two I snagged from Little Falls but I just had to have the Mojo JoJo toy. I left the two army men that I had (so now the cache has a complete squad of five) and also left my Tea Brick travel bug in honor of George Washington. When you move the Tea Brick, log some piece of Colonial or Revolutionary War history.

On the way back, I made the half-mile detour up Layton Road to see Washington's Grist Mill. The gate was locked so I lurked outside the fence and snagged a few pictures.

This log is the second of three that began with The Cedar Creek Gorge Cache. If you haven't just come from there, you might want to catch up at http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=14055

In fact, it did start back at Cedar Creek. After not finding that cache (for the second time), I went to set my goto for this one, only to realize that I hadn't loaded this relatively new cache into my GPSr. I called my wife on the cell phone to have her go to the site and read the coordinates. She wasn't happy. Not so much because I had interupted her getting dressed but, when she read the cache description she said 'This sounds neat', opening up the whole can of worms that come with my being able to geocache much more often than she does. I spend the 10 miles from Cedar Creek to Layton in a sour mood.

I arrive and begin the climb up the described Jeep Trail, a steep climb for my bike. I can see enough up the hill to guess that a road or path runs the crest of the hill and continue to follow the Jeep trail, hoping that they will connect up. I come across the dessicated and scavenger-scattered remains of a deer. Little more that a scattering of fur and bones.

By the time I get to the power-line cut, I figure that the jeep trail isn't going to connect up and so climb the hill here, hauling my bike because I'm uncomfortable with leaving it behind. The view from the top is very nice. And there is a trail along the crest. I ride my bike back towards the waypoint. Advise: People on foot probably don't have to go as far as I did before turning up the hill. Heck, I should have been on foot.

At the end is a redneck campsite in desparate need of a Trash Out. With my bike, I'm in no position to do that. I find the so-called safe and sane way down except that, mid way down I place my hand on a tree to steady myself and am attacked by some green insect that bites really hard. It draws blood from my finger and leaves a nasty welt. Shortly thereafter, I loose my footing and fall. Nothing life threatening but I received a nasty bruise and brush burn on my. . . let's say the back of my leg. Advise: use a hiking-type stick to help.

So, I finally get down the the place I believe I'm supposed to be only to realize that I left my headlamp in the car. My alternative is to use the LED bike flasher I left attached to my CamelBak pack. I do my search in momentary increments of dim red light spaced 3/4 of a second apart. Not very effective and ultimately unsuccessful.

I'm 0 for 2. And, on top of that, I'm probably going to be riding (or have already ridden by) the location of Stage 2. And, I'll be doing it again after I get down to Connelsville to add insult to injury. Well, I still have a chance at Little Falls. The story continues at http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC2A35