This cache is located at what some call Talaya Hill, while
others call it Picacho Peak, which literally means "Peak Peak." The
path is via the Dale
Ball Trails (click to download the pdf map) which wind through
the hillsides east of downtown Santa Fe.
We suggest you park in the lot at the intersection of Upper
Canyon Road and Cerro Gordo.
We chose this location due to the steep and perhaps arduous
climb which will hopefully cause you to find a resting spot and
spend some time enjoying the views and this cache.
Inside the ammo can are all the supplies needed to create a
Lucky Coin for the next geocacher(s) to take and a wooden box with
“Lucky Coins” for you to choose from.
Instructions:
- From the wooden box, pick a “Lucky Coin” for yourself.
- Share the lucky coin message you chose when you fill out the
online log for this cache
- If you brought a coin with you, open the large zip-lock bag
labeled "Create a Lucky Coin" and remove one of the small
bags with only a blank message paper inside. Put the coin you
brought in the bag and write you lucky message on the paper.
- If you did not bring a coin, choose one of the bags containing
a coin and a blank paper and write your lucky message on the
paper.
- Place the new Lucky Coin and message in the “Lucky Coin”
box.
Good Luck
coins
- In many countries it was believed that coins with holes in them
would bring good luck. This belief is similar to the superstition
linked to stones or pebbles which had holes, often called 'Adder
Stones' and were hung around the neck.
- Carrying a coin bearing the date of your birth is lucky.
- In Austria, any coin found during a rainstorm is especially
lucky, because it is said to have dropped from Heaven.
- Bathing with a penny wrapped in a washcloth brings good fortune
at Beltane (the Winter Solstice) in Celtic Mythology.
- Chinese Money Frogs or Toads, often with a coin in their
mouths, bring food, luck and prosperity.
- American silver 'Mercury' dimes, especially with a leap year
date, are especially lucky. Gamblers' use these dimes which depict
Mercury, the Roman god who ruled games of chance.
- In Spain, a bride places a silver coin from her father in one
shoe and a gold coin from her mother in the other. This will ensure
that she will never want for anything.
- In England, silver coins were placed in Christmas puddings and
birthday cakes to bring good luck and wealth. A variation on this
custom was to have each family member add a coin to the pudding
bowl, making a wish as they did so. If their coin turned up in
their bowl then their wish was sure to come true.
- In ancient Rome 'good luck' coins were in common circulation.
'Votive pieces'were struck by new emperors, promising peace for a
set number of years. Citizens would hold such coins in their hand
when making a wish or petitioning the gods.
- Another English custom is throwing of coins from a bridge onto
a boulder that lies below the water level of the river. Getting the
coin to stay on the rock gives the thrower 'good luck'.
