GC4T5ZC Traditional Cache Mondo's NAT #395 - Nootka
Type: Traditional | Size: Small Small | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 2 out of 5
By: mondou2 @ | Hide Date: 11/16/2013 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 55.169 W105° 01.209 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Takes less than an hour  No Difficult climbing  Available at all times  Not Available during winter  Dangerous Animals  Short hike (less than 1km) 

Native American Tribe Series.


Nootka

A confederacy of twenty or more tribes of mountainous western Vancouver Island who all speak closely related dialects belonging to the Wakashan language family. They had a hunter-gatherer economy with extensive reliance upon fishing, including the hunting of whales. Well crafted dugout canoes were used to ply the ocean. The Sky and Thunder gods were important in their religious beliefs, as were the Wolf Spirits. At a certain point in their lives, Nootka boys were abducted by men impersonating Wolf Spirits. They were taken away and taught wolf songs and dances. In a mock battle before men of the tribe rescued their boys and drove away the Wolf Spirits. The Nootka also practiced the ritual giving away of wealth known as "potlatch," the word itself coming from the Nootka patchatl, "sharing." Today the Nootka live in 18 villages  scattered about western Vancouver.

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If you are going down the steep embankment, you have passed the cache. Look for UPW - unnatural pile of wood.

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11 Logs: Found it 11  

Found it 05/19/2019 By Tremarc
Thanks for the hide

Found it 02/26/2019 By DBsearching
Not too hard to find had to pry it up out of the ice.
Tftc

Found it 12/23/2018 By jacobboulder
Quick find with my dad. Getting some caches in Broomfield this nice winter day. SL. TFTC!

Find #4017

Found it 09/28/2018 By JohnWMacDonald
No

Found it 09/27/2018 By kalliemac
Don’t overthink it it’s really in plain sight don’t go down the ditch

Found it 07/24/2018 By Back Country Horsemen
Perhaps this cache had hopped out of its spot. I secured it a bit better. TFTC

Found it 06/11/2018 By makaylamarley
Awesome, our first find!!!

Found it 06/10/2018 By lmkatz1s
Easy one!

Found it 06/08/2018 By Ixnay66
No pen so I’ll have to come back to sign Log this weekend. Nice spot! I actually have a cache not far from here as well.

Found it 02/03/2018 By Zach103
tftc!

Found it 09/23/2017 By dustyriver
A fun find during a CITO event on this good Saturday. CITO - GC7BN2J - SL.TFTC - Best Wishes, DustyRiver