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This cache is for trading pogs.
About Pogs (Information from Wikipedia.org):
Pogs is a game that was popular from the early-to-mid-1990s. The word "pog" also refers to the discs used to play the game. The name originates from POG, a brand of juice made from passionfruit, orange and guava; the use of the POG bottle caps to play the game pre-dated the game's commercialization. The game of pogs originated in Hawaii in the 1920s, and returned to popularity when the Canada Games Company reintroduced them to the public in the 1990s.
Pogs became so popular in the 1990s that hundreds of types of pogs were manufactured, covering a wide array of toys, cartoons, movies, games, sports and images of famous people on the front of the pogs. The popularity of the game spawned knockoffs, such as "Slammer Whammers," a similar game released under a different brand name. The pog craze has since tapered off, but pogs can sometimes still be found on eBay and in game and card stores. During the early 1990s, a national pog tournament was held every February 7 in honor of the game's inventor's birthday.
Sources describe the game of pogs as originating in the 1920s or early 1930s in Hawaii. Dairy farmers would play the game with milk caps. Blossom Galbiso, a teacher at Waialua Elementary School on the north shore of Oahu, is credited with reviving the game in 1991. She began using the milkcaps in her classroom and applied the game of pog to her mathematics curriculum. This was the beginning of international popularity for the game.
How to play
1. Find a good surface to play on.
Anywhere smooth and flat is a good place for a game. If you're playing on a really hard surface (like a concrete playground), it's a good idea to put the stack on top of something else. That way, if you miss, you won't chip your slammer. You can buy special mats for this - but a school book works fine!
2. Decide who goes first.
There are different ways to do this. You can toss a slammer like flipping a coin. Or you can see who has the most of one kind of cap, for example you may want to choose who starts by counting up Skulls or Poisons. Or you can get everyone to pick a cap with their eyes closed and see who chooses the one with the highest number or points value.
3. Stack the caps.
Make a stack of caps to play with by putting the caps on top of each other. Each player must donate the same number of caps to the stack to make it fair. It is traditional to stack the caps face up, but I would recommend to stack them face down. This means that when the slammer hits the stack, it will not damage the picture on the face of the cap. Roughly twelve caps altogether makes a good stack. Not enough caps and the game will be over too quickly. Too many caps make it hard to get the all important 'thwack' when you slam, and instead of flipping, the stack just collapses. Experiment with different stack sizes until you find the size that is right for you. Don't put too many caps in a stack.
4. Whack the stack.
The first player throws the slammer at the stack and - thwack!- sends caps flying everywhere. Well, at least that's the idea. If a player does miss the stack, it counts as a go anyway. There are many different methods of throwing the slammer.
5. Score and restack.
All the caps that land face up go to the player. The rest are restacked face down as before and the next player has a go with the slammer. This cycle continues until all the caps have been flipped over and won.
6. Who's the winner?
The player with the most caps at the end of the game is the winner. Remember if you're not playing for keeps to give the other player their caps back.
About Buse Lake Provincial Park (information from BC Parks website):
Buse Lake Provincial Park (228 hectares in area) is a favourite location for birders and naturalists. The lake is known for shorebirds, with some relatively rare species such as American avocets, which are attracted to the rich alkaline shoreline.
The top of Buse Hill offers expansive views of surrounding landscapes of the Thompson Basin. The hike to the top of the hill from the south is relatively short, but quite steep. The north facing terrain above Buse Lake rises steeply through forested slopes to a high cliff face, topped by rocky summits. The 200 meter high cliff formations include an impressive detached rock tower. The steeply sloping terrain on the south side of the park drops down into upper grassland habits on adjacent grazing lease lands.
Local rockhound enthusiasts have collected blue opal from the area immediately adjacent to the park, lying southwest of Buse Lake. While most of the rock hounding activity occurs outside of the park, there is some interest in using the park. Rock hounding activities in the park are confined to low impact rock chipping and surface collecting. The Park exhibits some of the diversity of rock types found in the Robbins Range, which originate from Cenozoic (Upper Triassic), Mesozoic and Paleozoic eras. The lower portions are comprised of volcanics and the upper slopes are a complex array of basalts, breccia, schists and conglomerates.
There are bees by the cache. watch out if you are allergic or scared by them.
Directions to the cache:
Buse Lake Park is located approximately 20 km southeast of Kamloops. From Barnhartvale road, turn on Campbell Range Road, then East on Robbins Range Road. Park at N 50 36.061 W 120 02.228.
The coordinates at the top of the page will take you to a large dead tree near the cache. From this tree, look NW and you will see two tall stumps. Walk to the second stump. From that stump, walk 11 meters to the W and you will be at another big stump. From that stump, walk about 15 meters NW to a small clearing. Look for a “?” (question mark) on the ground made out of rocks. The cache is about 11 meters away from the “?” Did we STUMP you? The cache is a 450 ml plastic container and, when placed, contained 19 pogs, a pencil and log book.
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