Gimme Dat Ding: HippoMaMa's 1K Cache Mystery Cache
Gimme Dat Ding: HippoMaMa's 1K Cache
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Difficulty:
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Terrain:
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Size: 
(micro)
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The coordinates above will not lead you to the cache, but
they will take you to the entrance of the park where it is
hidden.
In early September of 2008, a new geocacher in northeast Ohio who
had chosen the caching name HippoMaMa, found her very first
cache. Soon she was hitting the trails looking for
Tupperware and film cans wherever she could find
them. Although she sometimes cached alone or with family
members, she most often teamed up with her favorite caching partner
for many memorable and fun-filled caching adventures.
HippoMaMa was very determined to complete my 70’s One-Hit
Wonders caching series so that she could find a CD filled with
great music from the 1970’s. One of her favorite
songs from that time period was “Gimme Dat Ding”, which
in fact was a one-hit wonder for the Pipkins. It’s
also a phrase that many cachers have probably used when searching
for a particularly difficult cache – “Just gimme dat
ding already!!”
In February of 2010, HippoMama finally reached that magical
milestone when she found her 1,000th
cache. It definitely didn’t come easy, as she had
spent many a frigid morning, afternoon, and evening hunting for
caches in the gusting winds and the deep snow of January and early
February in northeast Ohio. Trust me, I was there for a
few of them, and it was cold!
As a tribute to the tenacity and perseverance she displayed while
in quest of her 1K milestone, I offer this humble
cache. In order to find it and log it, you will have to
do some research to find out a little bit about the cacher known as
HippoMaMa.
The cache can be found at the following coordinates:
N 41° 29.ABC W
081°20.DEF
You will need to answer the questions below to determine the
correct number for each of the letters above. All
answers can be found on the geocaching website, either on various
cache pages, HippoMaMa's profile, travelbug pages, or on her
favorite caching partner's profile.
A. What was the very first cache find that HippoMaMa
ever logged?
0) “ZEP”
6) “HippoMaMa Finds some
Tupperware”
7) "I’m Hip!"
2) “LowerFoxValley”
B. Which of the following geocachers is
HippoMaMa’s favorite caching partner?
5) Baergababe
1) Loftongal
9) Thometootsie
6) Vizquelvixen
C. HippoMaMa’s first cache hide and first
travelbug were both tributes to a wonderful woman, whom she
affectionately referred to as “Weeble”. Who
was the Weeble?
8) HippoMaMa’s MaMa
6) HippoMaMa’s first grade
teacher
1) HippoMaMa’s neighbor
4) HippoMaMa’s MaMa’s MaMa
D. HippoMaMa’s 800th cache find was
very special for her because it was the final cache in a series of
caches placed near the old Geauga Lake Park. When
HippoMama was younger, she worked at Geauga Lake as a member of
which group?
3) The Wild
Angels
5) The Fun Bunch
2) The Geauga Laker Girls
6) The Funland Floozies
E. Although HippoMaMa is quite intelligent, she is
sometimes confused by signs or directions which might have more
than one meaning. While out caching one day, HippoMaMa
saw a street sign that said “No
Outlet”. What did she think the sign
meant?
7) The street
was a dead end
0) There were no shopping malls in the
area
6) None of the people on the street had
power
4) There were no public restrooms
available
F. For her 1,000th cache, HippoMaMa
traveled outside of Ohio with her favorite caching partner for a
very special and memorable find. What location did they
choose to commemorate their 1,000th finds?
9) Bloomington, MN
6) Cooperstown, NY
4) Washington, D.C.
8) Las Vegas, NV
You may check your answers using the geochecker link below.
The cache is a camo'ed beach safe hidden in a patch of woods that
separates the soccer field from the baseball field. It
should be fairly easy to access from the soccer field side, but
there will be a slight incline very near the
cache. Please use caution as it can be slippery at any
time of year. The park closes at dusk.
Although it is listed as a micro, there may be room in the cache
for some very small trinkets or coins. Please bring your
own pen or pencil to sign the log, and be sure to congratulate
HippoMaMa on her 1K milestone!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Ubj'f vg unatva'??