This is the sixth 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 last 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 GC5N1PE]
The Hunting of the Great Bear, Part 6
Just then their little dog yipped twice.
"The great bear!" said the second hunter. "Look!"
The hunters looked. There, where they had piled the bones of their feast the Great Bear was coming back to life and rising to its feet. As they watched, it began to run again, the small dog close on its heels.
"Follow me," shouted the first brother. Grabbing up their spears, the four hunters again began to chase the great bear across the skies.
So it was, the old people say, and so it still is. Each autumn the hunters chase the great bear across the skies and kill it. Then, as they cut it up for their meal, the blood falls down from the heavens and colors the leaves of the maple trees scarlet. They cook the bear and the fat dripping from their fires turns the grass white.
If you look carefully into the skies as the seasons change, you can read that story. The great bear is the square shape some call the bowl of the Big Dipper. The hunters and their small dog (which you can just barely see) are close behind, the dipper's handle.
When autumn comes and that constellation turns upside down, the old people say. "Ah, the lazy hunter has killed the bear." But as the moons pass and the sky moves once more towards spring, the bear slowly rises back on its feet and the chase begins again.
This concludes the story of Hunting the Great Bear. If you have completed all six parts and collected the necessary information, you are now ready to complete your quest at GC1ABQ8. Good luck.