This is a gas saver for the trail system behind Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital. It is a pill container. GPS reception was pretty bad, so you might have to use your geocaching sense. The cache is hidden off the ground and should be ok even when there is snow.
The challenge is to please hide another cache in this trail system. It would be awesome if we could fill this area with caches, so we can get many smileys in one hike, and we can save the polar bears by using less gas. So if you can, please hide another cache here. If you can't that 's ok too, but I am hoping a bunch of cachers will help me fill this trail system with fabulous caches.
Now for the family stories part. When my 84yo mother (Oma) was visiting from the Netherlands, we hiked here a number of times. While she was here, she shared many family stories with the Oggettes. One of them is when she went to camp.
She was like six years old, and always had been a sickly kid. One day her mother told her "Today we are going on a train ride!" Oma was very excited because she had never been on a train. So they rode the train and arrived at some kind of camp, many miles away. This is when her mother told her "This is where you will be for the next six weeks. Have a great time! See you in six weeks. Be good!" Turns out it was a camp for sickly children and Oma hated the food and the warm milk she had to drink was horrible. It always had a skin on top and she hated it.
In this day and age it's hard to imagine that anyone would do that to a child. Not preparing the child at all, but just dropping them off at camp and saying "good luck!".
Listening to stories like that I wondered what family stories other cachers would have to share. When you log this cache, if you want, please share one of your family's stories.