Note this is a *4 star* terrain, per Geocaching.com's recommended
terrain judgement guide.
WARNING! - There will be mud. There will be water hazards. If it's
been rainy, they'll be that much worse. There'll be brush and
undergrowth to battle through. Come prepared, or come back in
December when those hazards have been iced over.
This cache is part of the
Geo-Opoly series. It is both a puzzle cache and a night cache
(flashlight required). Solve the puzzle to find your starting
point, then start looking for "eyes" (there should be 2 at each
point). The total adventure will take you no more than 0.15 miles
from your car, but this is no park & grab. The difficulty is
due to the puzzle/night/underbrush combination, not due to the
final hiding location itself. Beware the water hazard.Once you find
3 eyes together, it's time to look for the cache. If you come while
there's snow on the ground, please make sure to leave lots of
misleading tracks so it's just as much fun for the next cacher.
Rolling The Dice - A Monopoly Journal:
Turn 1: Out $150 on the first turn. At least the math was
easy.
Turn 2: Lost another $150 when I had to pay the three other people
$50.
Turn 3: Decided to opt out of a property purchase to avoid spending
$150 three turns in a row.
Turn 4: Finally bought a property for $220. Made blue grass joke
but nobody laughed.
Turn 5: Spent $150 on a bad property. It would have been a set of
sorts had I bought the other one earlier.
Turn 6a: Rolled doubles to land on rrgoinpostal's property and had
to fish out $26 rent.
Turn 6b: The second roll got me my second Chance card and I dumped
$400 into buying Boardwalk.
Turn 7: Passed Go and overshot Chance. Spent half my $200 on a
property I'll never use.
Turn 8a: Doubles took me to visit mtnelson. Joked that next turn
he'll be $50 poorer.
Turn 8b: Another set of doubles landed me on JohnnyCacheMN's
property, for which I was "charged" $20. It's my own fault
really.
Turn 8c: As I reached for a Chance card mazzmn and n1driver
gleefully reminded me that I had rolled doubles 3 times and had to
go visit mtnelson again.
Turn 9: Wasted my roll. Probably should have just paid the $50
fine.
Initial contents:
FTF cache prize in Chance format
Go Fish cards
temporary tattoos
Thanks to puzzle guru n1driver for his work on making our Journal
slightly less stupifying. You can use
Geochecker.com to check your answer
9/29/2009 update! While we waited for leaf-out to do our spring
maintenance, since then the brush has grown about 3 feet taller,
obscuring many of the reflectors. We tried doing maintenance, but
ran out of tacks and time to completely fix the portion out in the
open. If you want to start halfway through, we did verify that the
last portion of the reflector trail and cache were still in fine
shape. To start halfway through, take the dice rolling answer you
verified with Geochecker and add:
+ N 00 00.066
+ W 00 00.015