| This cache won Gold Awards for Outstanding Cache Hike and Outstanding Multi-Stage during the 3rd Annual Hidey Awards on February 6, 2010. Thanks to all visitors for showing their appreciation and for casting their vote. |
This could be a three- or seven-stage multi-cache, depending on whether this is your lucky day or not. It could be an 8 km or a 15 km hike and could take less than 2 or over 3 hours. We have hidden several camouflaged caches in the park. Each is the size of a pill bottle or larger and contains a small toy animal (or picture) and two numbers needed to determine the latitude and longitude of the final stage. You do not have to visit the given six stages in any particular order. Your goal is to find two animals of the same
taxonomic class and add their numbers to come up with the coordinates for the final stage. Only decimal minutes are given; assume 36 and 76 degrees for north latitude and west longitude, respectively. At any stage, if you think you got a matching pair, you may skip the remaining stages. The final cache is a camouflaged container with logbook and pen.
VA State Parks Geocaching Permit on file with Park Ranger Office
P.S.: Kids, please don't trade the animals or you'll ruin the game!