 The Road Not Taken
A cache by LucyAmberAlex and TallNana Hidden: 7/21/2009
Size:  (Regular) Difficulty:  Terrain:  (1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)
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This cache has a poetic theme. The coordinates provided are for
Step-1 where you will find a micro with instructions. Final Cache
coordinates will be revealed when you solve the puzzle found at
Step-3. Each finder is invited to enter the name of his or her
favorite poem in the log. We hope you enjoy the puzzle and the hunt
as much as we enjoyed putting this cache together.
Please follow established trails most of the way to the cache.
Off-trail hiking is discouraged as it negatively impacts the
environment.
P.S. The posted photos for Step-1 and Step-2 are revealing.
Don't look unless you're having great difficulty finding them.
Original Contents:
FTF prize – a “signed” copy of the poet’s
poems
Log book and pen
20 laminated copies of the poem (take 1)
WV Litter is Ugly sticker
“Celebrate America” CD
American Flag
Leather coin purse
Plastic coin purse
2 Computer mouse pencil sharpeners
2 pencils
Snoopy stuffed toy
2 dominos
Small flashlight
The Home of the Brave button
Small playing cards
2 GI figurine fun toys
Siemens key chain
Charm pin
SWV Outdoors Club refrigerator magnet
Tales from Virtue Valley book from Chick-Fil-A®
Turbo Racecar (DK 7190 Bullund)
1940 Ford Matchbox
Geocache Site Placard (2)
Deweyz refrigerator magnet
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)
Fgrc-1: ebbg; oevat n snyfuyvtug(Decrypted Hints)
Find...
Step-1
Step-2
3 
3 
10 
1 
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Cache find counts are based on the last time the page generated.
 October 29, 2009 by LucyAmberAlex (402 found)
** Coordinates Changed From **
N 38° 13.994 W 081° 38.660
Distance From Old: 43 feet
Updated the coordinates
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 October 29, 2009 by LucyAmberAlex (402 found)
Checked out Step-1, Step-2, and Step-3 on this beautiful fall day. All is fine.
Updated the coordinates for Step-1 and posted photos for Step-1 and Step-2. The photos are revealing; don't look unless you're having difficulty finding them.
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September 1, 2009 by LucyAmberAlex (402 found)
Way to go WVAngler! I'm glad you enjoyed our efforts. I love your poems. Re my own fly fishing, I MUST learn to think like a fish!For those of you who hate the cold, hear "The Cremation of Sam McGee" in the poet's own words at (visit link) Now we need a poem about WV ticks and briers.
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September 1, 2009 by PilotJ (1399 found)
Well done, WVAngler!
Loved the poem. Guess we have never graduated to the deep thinking poems. We still like the rhymey ones that evoke an emotional empathy. Think we need to keep this one in our watch basket and experience some poetry again at this point in our lives. Thanks again LAA and Tall Nana. Great idea for a puzzle cache!
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 September 1, 2009 by WVangler (1199 found)
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one most traveled by,
And the bushwack to the cache shook all my muscles loose.Awesome hunt, awesome puzzle LAA. When it was taking you so long to hide that cache container you won at last fall's WWFM I knew you were up to no good (ha ha). Well thought out, well executed. Very fun. It was a beautiful day for a hike so today I decided to knock out the final stage after solving the stage 3 puzzle yesterday evening. I took a poem card, which I will keep in my cache bag as a memento from the hunt. First poem that comes to mind is "Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert Service. I have a lot of favorite fishing poems. I found this one so I thought this would describe me well... You wait a moment to settle your nerves
Then make your cast with a right hand curve
The fly settles down and the float looked good
But the trout refused it and there you stood
A dejected fly fisherman.
You looked things over and were not yet beat
Then changed flies again and were ready to repeat
The next try was poor because you rushed the cast
You hold your breath in solemn anticipation
You must be a fly fisherman!
The fly floats gently on its way to the trout
You know it will "take it" without a doubt.
You're all charged up and ready to strike
But the fly floats by because something's not right
You are still a fly fisherman.
You open your fly box and select a new fly
Then lengthen the tippet before the next try
Change your position to help with the cast
And hope you have made the right decision at last
Now you are a doubtful fly fisherman.
~by George W. Harvey, A Fly Fisherman
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Current Time: 2/9/2010 11:08:40 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) (7:08 AM GMT)
Last Updated: 10/29/2009 12:26:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time (7:26 PM GMT)
Rendered: From Database
Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum
