Large Marge Traditional Geocache
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Presented for your consideration:
A wood in a park in suburban Minneapolis. To the casual passerby this wood looks like any other---trees mixed with brush and tall grass, off a biking/walking path and near open fields.
However, the wood is far from ordinary. In the middle of it is something odd---something the biker, the dog walker, the mom with a stroller, wouldn’t notice.
If you are curious enough you can leave the paved path and walk down a wide grass track. Over there, through the brush, through the trees, is the oddity: a sunken oval ditch surrounding a copse of trees and brambles. Viewed from the air it looks like a South Sea coral atoll (except of course there are no palm trees or coral reef or sea---we are in Minnesota, after all). It’s a grassy atoll, a Midwestern island of mystery.
Why is it there? Is it the remnants of some farm building? An impact crater from space junk that fell out of the depths of space? A Druid circle for a mysterious rite held at midnight on the summer solstice in a cloud of mosquitoes? A path worn into the earth by an inebriated ATV driver trying to do a very large donut?
No one knows. What we do know is that it hides a huge cache. A positively enormous, wonderful, fabulous cache so huge it has its own name--Large Marge. It contains not tiny bits of paper or miniscule toys, but truly huge treasure, swag that would make any explorer’s heart swell with joy. This treasure cache is protected by brambles and brush, so only the most determined and bold will reach it. This cache is not for the faint of heart!
If you are such an explorer, full of determination and drive, and you can fight your way through the wilds of Brooklyn Park, you will be well rewarded. And perhaps, when you contemplate your hard-won treasure, you will come up with an explanation for the existence of the mysterious Grassy Atoll.
Congratulatons to JJ and seeitingitdifferent for the FTF
Note to cachers with children. This cache has been known to contain many large toys. Please replace whatever you take with something the next child who finds it will be just as excited to find.
Additional Hints
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Vg'f ynetr.