Fools Gold Traditional Cache
AdventureFacilitator: missing/stolen
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A Cache with a story to tell.
This Cache is a quick find and is at a nice little location. Just park in the Mount Helena Trail head parking lot and you can get to it in about 5 min. Also this cache is an important one to us. There is a story here that you can either read about or just get the coordinates and go. But for those of you who want the story, read on...
Here is my proposal story:
I took Sarah into town and to Taco Bell for some late night food. I told her that it was cute because this is how our dates used to be, while we were there I tried to find a hot sauce packet that said “will you marry me” because we had seen it before and had joked about it. As I was unable to find one, I realized that I was going to have to rough it. The plan for after taco bell was to find a couple of geocaches and go home. I had told her earlier in the evening that it looked like someone had posted a new one earlier that day and that it would be cool if we were the first to find it. But … unknown to her, I was the one that had hidden the “new” one a couple days previous.
We Started off with trying to find a “Decoy” geocache near the one I had hid, and were unable to find it. It was a cold evening so I suggested that that we do just one more and then head home, and she agreed.
So we park at the Mount Helena trail head and proceed up to the next cache. She made a joke about parking on the other side so that instead of walking a quarter mile, we could walk a mile and a half. This joke was referencing a mishap I had made on a geocache earlier that month. She asked me what the geocache was called, and thinking on my feet I told her it was called “Fools Gold” since it was April Fools Day. I had hid the cache at the bottom of a shallow mining pit/indentation, so I told her that the hint was “Miners were here before you.”
She was the first to spot the geocache, and shrieked with glee as she started to dig it up. She picked it up and before she opened it, I had gotten down on one knee and had the ring out, from my pocket. As her back was turned to me she was unable to see me and the ring. She shook the geocache and proclaimed that it “felt empty” and that “maybe not much is in it.” Then she opened it. Inside she saw a whole stack of photos of the two of us and a ring box, she stared confused for a millisecond, then with mouth open and tears welling in her eyes she looked back at me and saw the ring.
I then tell her how much she means to me and ask her if she will marry me…. She replies with an enthusiastic “Heck Yes!” We then sit and go through the photos from our past few years together while we over look the city lights.
Needless to say I had not actually “posted” this geocache online, because I needed to make sure that she was “First to Find.” We’re very happy to be engaged and I was happy to have been able to surprise her. It was also fun to have everyone she told that day go “Ha ha, April Fools!” and then watch the flow of text messages and phone calls that she had to send to convince them that it was in fact the real deal.
I hope you enjoy this cache and I hope that you liked my story. Have fun out there!
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