You're looking for a beach tube wrapped in cloth camo tape.
(Yeah, I used the good stuff!) But the point is not to just find
the cache. You have a much bigger mission! The fate of the universe
is in your hands!
Do you recognize the thing in the following picture? (No, not
the quarter. The other thing. No, not my kitchen counter. The
little black thing.)
Good. I thought you might. I really don't like those
things...and I'm being rather mild in my terminology there. (And if
you're one of the lucky ones who haven't encountered one of those
things yet, well, congratulations!) The cache you're looking for
contains (originally) 17 of those things. (And actually, they
appear to be slightly larger knock-offs of the original. (Okay, so
I'm cheap.)) When you find the cache, you can just sign the log and
return the cache to its original location if you wish. However, you
might have more fun if you take one of those insidiously evil
things with you.
The following picture illustrates an example of something
absolutely horrible that you could do with it.
But why oh why would you want to do something evil like
that?
The following pictures illustrate the preferred thing to
do with that despicable thing that you took with you. First, we
have the BEFORE picture:
Here's the AFTER picture:
Isn't that just a really great improvement?
The following picture shows an alternative tool that could be
applied to that thing.
But wait. There's more fun! You don't get to just walk up and
grab that SICK thing's parent (i.e., the cache this page is about).
It's up in a tree! (Well, I think it used to be a tree.) Now, why
would I do THAT, you ask? Well, for one thing, I recently got a
neat new toy that makes dealing with things hanging in trees fairly
simple, AND I WANTED TO PLAY WITH IT!
But just think about those little tiny things sitting in that
container up there. Think about how EVIL they have to be to be
small enough for me to have been able to fit 17 of them in there.
Do you think it's possible to hang a container with 17 ammo boxes
up in a tree? Of course not. Nice easy to see things like ammo
boxes just don't go in trees very well, especially in bulk
quantities. (Okay, nevermind the vision that just flashed through
my mind of certain weisenheimers haulling a 50 gallon drum up a
tree.) Doesn't the thought of those things being compatible with
being stored en mass in a tree want to make you DO SOMETHING to
them? Like CRUSH THE LIVING CRUD OUT OF THEM? Don't
you want to just OBLITERATE those evil things from the face of the
planet? Well, please just do it with one of them and let others
share in the fun.
Please try to put the cache back where it was. You don't really
need any neat toys or special tools to access the cache. There are
natural ones around that you can use. (I tested it with stuff that
I found there. And out of deference to people without fancy toys, I
didn't put it back up quite as high as I had it originally.)
However you get to it, BE CAREFUL! You may want to avoid having it
fall on you.
If you've done my other cache (GC12HQV) along this trail, you
should already know that the Buckeye Trails bike path runs parallel
to it, and both share a common parking lot on Old Springfield. As
with that other cache, this one's best accessed from the hiking
trail, not the bike path. (The trail begins near the center
of the gravel parking lot.) This one involves less of a walk than
that other one but there's a little bushwhacking, at least during
the warmer months. I found a good place to leave the trail to be
just before the creek. (But as it turns out, a straight beeline
from the parking lot may be as easy or easier.) The trip to the
cache area, and the area itself, could be muddy at times. (But it
wasn't too bad today). It may even be totally flooded out at times.
I didn't notice any poison ivy or ticks, but I wouldn't be
surprised if they're there.
And as with that other one during my first attempt to place it,
my electronic playmate was being a dingbat again with this one. The
posted coordinates are the ones she liked most of the time during
testing.
There's no pen/pencil/chalk/crayon/etc. in the container.
Please let me know if the cache looks like it's running low on
the little buggers.
Now then. I am aware that I may have just unleashed a monster.
I'm sure there are those of you who can't imagine why anyone would
have any feelings but immense love for those "cute" little things.
If you really insist on treating the thing you took as a
cache (and I use that term lightly), I have ONE requirement. Just
so the rest of us can know what the blazes we're looking for,
your cache description MUST indicate that the container came
from THIS cache! If you don't give that indication, well,
I'll...I'll...well, I might just get so mean that I'll come back
here and delete your found log for this cache! But I'll definitely
be really annoyed with you and pout for a long time!
Now, get off the computer and get out there and have a
frolicking great time! And if you get a neat result after totally
destroying that thing, post a picture!