ccrider2000's Golden Ammo Can Traditional Cache
ccrider2000's Golden Ammo Can
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Easy walk in Ridgecrest Park - please observe park hours. Hundreds
of muggles will be nearby during baseball games, and some nearby
houses look over the cache location, so stealth is required. FTF
hounds - don't bother, ccrider2000 is FTF by prior notification.
Feel free to be a STF hound though!
The first time I emailed with ccrider2000, it was because they gave
me a headache. From reading through the logs of their
"Headache" cache, they've
given many of YOU some headaches too!
At the time of our first few emails, there weren't many caches in
or near downtown Rochester. That has changed significantly, with
ccrider2000 adding nine (count 'em, nine) new geocaches
withing walking distance of our downtown offices, six of them in
May and June. That alone has put a big smile on my face (as well as
a bunch of smileys on the goecaching map for me!) I even added one
of my own as a tribute to
"Headache" ...
"Chapped Lips".
Something else that has put a smile on my face is that mom "L" and
I have gone out on a whole bunch of "lunch runs" together, grabbing
a few geocaches on each of several lunch hours. One of my most
favorite geocaching experiences ever was a "lunch run" with "L"
doing the "Nick, Sue, Fred, and
the Beaver" multi. By chance, we met up with the artist for
the statues in the park near the cache location, Pepsy
Kettavong. Pepsy already knew dad "K" and mom "L" from school, and
he invited us into his studio to give us an impromptu, personalized
tour of his works in progress. It was very awesome.
I also have been living vicariously through ccrider2000, watching
their finds climb steadily from 700+, then to 800+, and beyond,
until just last week they were sitting at 989. Luckily, I had just
picked up an ammo can over Thanksgiving in Pennsylvania, and I had
just barely enough gold paint left in the spray can. So as I
scrambled out of the "3rd
Annual Rochester Area Family Event" this past Sunday, and saw
them sitting at the door, I chuckled to myself on hearing the news
of their 1000th find - I probably still had gold spray paint on my
hand!
The cache itself is a .30 cal ammo can painted shiny gold. It is
stocked with lots of goodies - pretty much all kids toys (some new,
some not). It can be found in a pretty typical geo-spot - please
re-hide as good or better than you found it. Shiny gold looks good
to muggles! There were some prickers around when I hid it, and
I bet the area is loaded with prickers in season, so be
careful.
First to find prizes:
For the first to find family, a couple of nice big lammys.
For the first to find person who likes to hide nanos, a ready-to-go
magnetic nano cache with log strip. Guaranteed NOT to stick
magnetically to park benches that get up and leave.
For the first to find child under 12, an unactivated "Cache Kids,
Wild About Geoaching" trackable geocoin.
For the first to find golfer, a box of brand spanking new golf
balls. (I couldn't fit the golf balls in the ammo can, so they will
be placed in the "Headache" cache mentioned above. ;-)
For second to find, there is a lammy.
I hope that you all enjoy this cache; please join me in sending
your congratulations to ccrider2000, and wish them luck for the
next 1000!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Vg'f n tbyq nzzb pna. P'zba, lbh qba'g arrq n uvag.
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