Bill & Gary's Tribute Cache - Inwood Multi-Cache

I'm testing a new concept with my caches with a high difficultly rating. I always provide hints with my caches as I want you to find it. Some of my hints may be a bit cryptic (especially the higher difficultly caches) but there's one there. To help everyone to find my caches I've written a program that will monitor an email account. When an email arrives this program will look for the GC number in the subject. It will search a database for that GC number. If it's found then an email will be sent to the sender. This email will provide what I call "Progressive Hints".

What "Progressive Hints" means is that in the body of the email you will see a vague hint. Then if you scroll down you'll see another hint that's more helpful. There will be several hints until the last one which will be a dead give away. Scroll down as far as you needed to. This will hopefully reduce the number of trips needed. If you have a phone that can send and receive emails you'll most likely only need one trip. This is being tested as of Sept. 27, 2011. If you have problems with the emails, please contact me through my profile.

Now the rules:
1.) Use the email address of hints@tmrl.net.
2.) In the subject, just type the GC number such as GC26VDR. Use uppercase. No other text allowed or you'll get an email that explains the GC number you sent was not found.
3.) The program that is running this program could be turned off at times. This means no replies until it's turn back on. Emails will be checked for every 10 minutes (or less). So if after 10 minutes you don't get a reply, then you're on your own.

Bill & Gary are two employees from Stony Creek Metropark that decided to place some very challenging and unique caches beginning in May 2002. These caches were multi caches with anywhere from 4 to 9 stages and generally required a full days work to complete. Just check out these caches to see some of the logs for these unforgettable caches:

This cache is my attempt to honor Bill & Gary. Their caches gained popularity rapidly as each year went on. Their clever hides challenged cachers from across the state. I hope you will enjoy finding this cache and that it can compare to a Bill & Gary's hide.

When I started caching in 2004 with my son, we tried to find the first stage of their 3rd cache. We didn't find it and to our regrets never went back to try again. The next year we did complete their cache and were truly impressed. I've described their caches as five two stage caches wrapped up into one. The "Bill & Gary's Tribute" caches that I'm placing will all follow the format of:

1st Stage: A small lock-n-lock with a business card that will provide you with the waypoint and a hint for the 2nd stage and a hint for the final. Please take a single card per group.

2nd Stage: A brass disk with the waypoint for the final.

Final: A regular size container.

Please be careful when looking for any of these caches. Be respectful of the area. There will be no need to tear apart the landscape. Replace each stage as you found it so the fun (or torture) will be the same for the next cacher.

Please remember to "Cache In and Trash Out".

“This cache is located within Stony Creek Metropark Metropark. A Metroparks permit is required: $5 daily pass, $25 annual pass, $15 Seniors. For general information please call 810-227-2757 or 800-47-PARKS, or visit www.metroparks.com. All park rules and regulations apply. Park in parking lots only. Check the Metroparks website for park hours.”