Locally, there is at least one cacher who purports to be in
recovery after placing evil hides. And others have taken special
care to make sure people find their caches by using orange cones,
hummers, spare body parts, road kill, and pieces of bark to mark
where the cache is placed. I wondered what I could do to make sure
that my fellow cachers are able to find an ammo can hidden in the
woods. And then the answer came: its easy to miss things with
everyone trying to move fast to increase their numbers, so I simply
needed to place a container where you have to slow down.
I followed a trail from Deer Park in Fairfax to the cache
location. There are several different ways to get here, but I
turned right, across the bridge, near the reserved parking sign in
the lot. There are no tricks to it — it is not disguised as
something else, placed at the top of a power pole, or hidden down a
steep canyon where only a deer would go. It is just there, right
next to one of my favorite spots in on the trail, a perfect place
to sit with the dog or have a picnic. Bonus points™
(redeemable for first to find credits or Geocoin discoveries) are
awarded to everyone who practices their CIBO skills along the
way.
The cache was originally filled with in-theme items. I don't
expect you to know the theme, but please make sure that others will
enjoy what you leave as much as you enjoy what you take. And of
course, go lightly on the landscape and return everything as you
find it.