THE LISTED COORDINATES ARE
BOGUS. To find the cache, you've got to turn your attention
northward and put your thinking cap on.
AND 
We're bringing a little of Washington right here to Austin, Texas!
This is a two-stage Texas geocache working in tandem with a
two-stage Washington geocache. To find Stage 1, you must learn a
few things about our neighbors to the north. To find Stage 2, you
must partner with them online.
In order to find this cache, you need to answer the quiz
below about Washington State.
The Quiz
1. What is the state capital?
2. What is the state tree?
3. What is the state bird? (hint, American
is NOT in the answer, answer is 2 words)
4. What is the state fruit?
5. What is the state song?
6. What is the state fish?
The Coordinates
OK, now here's how you turn these answers into your Stage 1
coordinates:
use the key below:
The Stage 1 latitude is N 30° 14. (#
of letters in answer 1 minus 7) (# of letters in answer 2
minus 7) (# of letters in answer 3 minus 7)
The Stage 1 longitude is: W 097° 54. (# of
letters in answer 4) (# of letters in answer 5 minus
12) (# of letters in answer 6 minus 10)
To Verify the FIRST STAGE COORDINATES to the TEXAS CACHE:
The Stage 1 cache is a redirector containing only one piece of
information- the longitude and latitude of Stage 2. Just one
problem: While the longitude is for the Texas second stage, the
latitude is for the second stage in Washington.
All right, Texans- now it's time to team up with your fellow
geocachers in the north. You're going to have to trade latitudes to
find Stage 2. Here's how you do it:
1. Take a look below for notes anyone in Washington may have posted
to this website requesting a partner to exchange latitudes with. If
you find someone, click on their user name to get to their profile
page, then email them via geocaching.com and arrange the trade
between yourselves.
2. If you fail to find any such notes, you can post one yourself on
our counterpart cache page in Washington. Hopefully,
someone in Washington who needs an Texan partner will read your
note and contact you via geocaching.com. You may have to wait a bit
for this, of course.
3. If you've waited more than three weeks without finding a
partner, please contact the Washington cache owner, and she will
give you the second-stage latitude. (Of course, we could give you
the number ourselves, but that wouldn't be in keeping with the
spirit of this 'partner' geocache!)
To Verify the FINAL COORDINATES to the TEXAS CACHE:
Please do not post premature "found it!" notes. If you post a
"found it!" note before completing Stage 2, your note will be
deleted (after fair warning, of course).
Also, please remove any partner-seeking notes you post on the
Washington cache page after you've found a partner. Otherwise,
you'll keep getting contacted, and folks up there will be
frustrated by the clutter of old notes. Whenever we find outdated
notes on these two cache pages, we will remove them.
Finally, please don't post any coordinates on either of these cache
pages. Posts that include coordinates will be deleted as soon as
they are discovered. The cache is a standard ammo can, stocked full
of all kinds of Washington goodies, sent directly from our caching
counterparts. In order to keep the cache fully loaded -- please
try and bring TEXAS (or Austin) items to trade, so that we can
keep their cache loaded with just as much cool stuff from the Lone
Star State! There is a ziploc bag for placing your Texas items
into; please do not remove any items from that bag- only take the
(very cool) Washington items in trade.
Please also take care to replace it (and its camo) exactly as you
found it, so that we can avoid detection.
Initial contents of the Washington
cache include:
key chains, stickers,
postcards, playing cards, magnets, whistles, etc.
Initial contents of the Texas
cache
key chains, stickers,
postcards, magnets, etc.
[Please give credit to the
idea behind the creation of this cache to TEXAS GAL, where ever she
may be, we miss you, darlin, and would love to have you back in
Texas soon!]