“OHIO SPIRIT
QUEST”
The Ohio Spirit Quest series of geocaches will
take you to a number of historic cemeteries built by Buckeye
Pioneers. This series is inspired by and a continuation of the
Indiana Spirit Quest caches created by Six Dog Team. In just over
three years, the SPIRIT QUEST has grown to over 550 caches, with
the hiding teams growing as well. The Ohio Spirit Quest has begun
to grow with ten current hides in one Northwest Ohio county, with
four current caching teams, three each with A Man and His
Dog... and one with A Woman and her Dog. Over 1,000 cachers have logged over 20,000 finds. One cache
machine found 111 ISQ caches in a single day (daylight hours only).
PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL OF POSTED CEMETERY HOURS,
TYPICALLY DAWN TO DUSK. ANY FIND LOGS INDICATING NIGHT CACHING WILL
BE DELETED WITHOUT NOTICE.
Come with us now for a
virtual tour of this old burial ground via this page, then go out
and find the cache!
Shiffler Cemetery (Photos by -Eleanor-)
OHIO SPIRIT QUEST
#010
”Shiffle on down the Lane"
This is our tenth hide across the border in
Ohio. Listen to what TMA has to say:
Welcome to Shiffler
Cemetery, Jefferson Township, Williams County,
Ohio.
This is a large, sprawling
cemetery, right off of US127, just north of Pulaski,
Ohio.
One person of note buried
here in Shiffler was William C. Miller. William was a leading
agriculturist in Williams county, and played a large part in the
area's development. A stunning veterans memorial is set on the east
side of the cemetery, south of center, shortly after you drive in.
Please take a moment to check it out.
Now, on to the cache. You need to find the plaque at stage one.
There are nine words on it. Add the number of letters in all the
words together. Multiply that sum by 2, and subtract thirty five.
Subtract that new number from the latitude listed. Take the sum of
all letters again, and multiply by 3, then subtract fifty three.
Add that new number to the longitude listed. That should get you to
the cache.
There might be an FTF Geocoin involved, I forget :)
TMA
Veterans Monument
The cache container is a camo'd regular
tupperware. -- BYOP. Plenty of parking. If you find a
fallen US flag, please stick it back in the ground. As always,
please be respectful, and cache in, trash out. Pray for our
Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, CoastGuardsmen and Airmen in harm's
way. All photos by -Eleanor-.
Placed by a member of:
"Ohio Spirit
Quest" is brought to you by the following fellows of
GEOOSQ*: The SixDogTeam, THE SHADOW,
The Moop Along, -Eleanor-. If you are interested in spreading
the quest to your neck of the woods AND WOULD LIKE TO JOIN
US, email The Moop Along with caching resume and at least 25
current notarized references.
*Grand Exalted Order of
the Ohio Spirit Quest
