Orb Weaver Spider Traditional Cache
Scruffy Smiley: It's been a good run. Thanks for 2 years of reading logs and watching spiders!
Scruffy Smiley
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There are 8 legs (micro caches) hidden on 8 different hiking trails within McDowell Nature Preserve. The bottom of each cache container has a number etched on it which will be needed to find the spiders body (final cache).
Orb-weaver spider
From Wikipedia
The orb-weaver spiders (family Araneidae) are the builders of spiral wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens, fields and forests. Their common name is taken from the round shape of this typical web. Orb-weavers have eight similar eyes, legs hairy or spiny and no stridulating organs. The family is cosmopolitan, including many well-known large or brightly colored garden spiders. There are more than 2,800 species in over 160 genera worldwide, making this the third largest family of spiders known (behind Salticidae and Linyphiidae).
This cache is just 1 leg of “8 Legged Freak”.
There are 8 legs (micro caches) hidden on 8 different hiking trails within McDowell Nature Preserve. The bottom of each cache container has a number etched on it which will be needed to find the spiders body (final cache).
This cache series was inspired by my families love for the movie “Eight Legged Freaks”, as well as all horror movies everywhere.
We spent weeks hiking the trails picking just the right spots. All the legs are within eye sight of the trails, except the final which is a little harder to get to in keeping with the challenge. This one has several letter boxes near it that we found looking for the right spot.
Additional Hints
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Fvyire Ovfba ghor nggnpurq gb n gerr ol n oynpx mvc gvr. Arne Oebja Cbfg.
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