Hercules Traditional Cache
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A camoflauged ammo can hidden in the Loch Raven Watershed area.
Easily accessed from the Cromwell Valley Park.
This cache is part of a series using the names and personalities
ascribed to ancient Greek and Roman gods and godesses to celebrate
various aspects of geocaching. This cache isn't one of the great
feats of Hercules, but will require good physical condition to hike
to the end of the Cromwell Valley Park trails and beyond into the
watershed area. You will walk through a mature forest and can enjoy
the quiet majesty of the huge poplars. In Greek mythology, Heracles
or Herakles was a divine hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene. He is
better known today by his Roman equivalent name - Hercules. He was
the greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity, the
ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae and a
champion of the Olympian order against chthonic monsters. The
Romans adopted the Greek version of his life and works.
Extraordinary strength, courage, and ingenuity were among his
characteristic attributes. Although not as clever as Odysseus,
Hercules used his wits on several occasions when his strength did
not suffice, such as when laboring for King Augeias, wrestling the
giant Antaeus, or tricking Atlas into taking the sky back onto his
shoulders. His iconographic attributes are the lion skin and the
club. These qualities did not prevent him from being regarded as a
playful figure who used games to relax from his labors and played a
great deal with children.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Bu, ubj gur zvtugl unir snyyra!