This is the third in a series of adventures for young geocachers.
The prize for completing this series is the “Great Bear Claw” necklace. To earn the necklace you must visit the first 6 caches and collect a piece of the necklace. You will also find a picture in the logbook that will help you solve the 7th and final cache [GC1ABQ8].
In this cache you will find the next two beads for your necklace.
Please take only one set of beads for your necklace. Let me know when supplies start to run low so that I can refill them.
[Continued from GC1RXZ0]
The Hunting of the Great Bear, Part 3
They walked, following their little dog. It kept lifting up its head, as if to look around with its four eyes. The trail was not easy to find.
"Brothers," the fattest and laziest hunter complained, "don't you think we should rest. We've been walking a long time." But his brothers paid no attention to him. Though they could see no tracks, they could feel the presence of the Nyah-gwaheh. They knew that if they did not soon find its trail, it would make its way behind them. Then they would be the hunted ones.
The fattest and laziest brother took out his pemmican pouch. At least he could eat while they walked along. He opened the pouch and shook out the food he had prepared so carefully by pounding together strips of meat and berries with maple sugar and then drying them in the sun. But instead of pemmican, pale squirming things fell out into his hands. The magic of the Nyah-gwaheh had changed the food into worms.
"Brothers," the fattest and laziest of the hunters shouted, "let's hurry up and catch that big bear! Look what it did to my pemmican. Now I'm getting angry."
Meanwhile, like a pale giant shadow, the Nyah-gwaheh was moving through the trees close to the hunters. Its mouth was open as it watched them and its huge teeth shone, its eyes flashed red. Soon it would be behind them and on their trail.
Just then, though, the little dog lifted its head and yelped. "Eh-heh!" the first brother called.
"Four-Eyes has found the trail," shouted the second brother.
"We have the track of the Nyah-gwaheh," said the third brother.
"Big Bear," the fattest and laziest one yelled, "we are after you, now!"
[The adventure continues... see GC1ABPK]