“La dent du Turc” GC1PP6C GEOCACHE OF THE WEEK – April 18, 2011

View from near grounds zero of GC1PP6C

La dent du Turc” GC1PP6C translates into English as “Turk’s Tooth.” The rugged rock ridge erupts from the French countryside. Franky84 hide the cache some 400 meters above sea-level back in 2009. The difficulty 2, terrain 5 geocache has already garnered 9 Geocaching.com Favorite Points.

Relaxing after logging a smiley

The cache page is written in both French and English and warns adventurers about the terrain.  There’s also some advice. Franky84 writes, “If you’ve never been up there. Try this cache! You will never forget it.” More than 30 people have logged a “Found it” on La dent du Turc.

Geocachers use their log entries to thank the cache owner for taking them to a new vista. One geocacher writes, “This was a great challenge for me. And I made it to the top . Thanks for this great cache.”

This Geocache of the Week was chosen from suggestions on the Geocaching.com Facebook page.

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Ground zero for "La dent du Turc"