THE LISTED COORDINATES ARE
BOGUS. To find the cache, you've got to turn your attention
southward and put your thinking cap on.
AND 
We're bringing a little of TEXAS right here to Washington!
This is a two-stage Washington geocache working in tandem with a
two-stage Texas geocache. To find Stage 1, you must learn a few
things about our neighbors to the south. To find Stage 2, you must
partner with them online.
In order to find this cache, you need to answer the quiz
below about Texas.
The Quiz
1. What is the state capital?
2. What is the state tree?
3. What is the state bird?
4. What is the state flower?
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 46° 04. (#
of letters answer 1) (# of letters in answer 2+2) (# of
letters in answer 3-2)
The Stage 1 longitude is: W 118° 18.
(# of letters in answer 4-8) (# of letters in answer
5-9) (# of letters in answer 6-5)
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 Washington second stage,
the latitude is for the second stage in Texas.
All right, Washington- now it's time to team up with your fellow
geocachers in the south. 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 Texas 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 Texas. Hopefully,
someone in Texas who needs a Washington 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 Texas 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 Cache in Walla Walla click
here:
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 Texas goodies, sent directly from our caching
counterparts. In order to keep the cache fully loaded -- please
try and bring Washington items to trade, so that we can keep
their cache loaded with just as much cool stuff from The Evergreen
State! There is a ziploc bag for placing your Washington items
into; please do not remove any items from that bag- only take the
(very cool) Texas 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!]