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Update 28 June, 2011: The following things have been updated to make the cache safer and more family friendly: the cache is upgraded to an ammo can, parking coordinates have been added and swag has been refreshed. There is no need to stop on the highway or walk on the highway to retrieve the cache.
This cache is an ammo can representing Billy Goat Gruff #3. The cache is a very short walk from available parking but there is some thorn bushes so finding this cache in shorts will likely result in a couple of scratches.
This cache is set out as part of a series based on the fable of the Three Billy Goats Gruff. Each of the caches put out is based on a character in the fable. If you don't know the story, feel free to read on.
THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF
Far to the north there is a long and narrow country called Norway. Dark forests, moonlit lakes, deep fjords and mighty snow-capped mountains make the country beautiful and mysterious. I say mysterious because all over Norway live strange and interesting people called Trolls. Following is the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff. The version here is adapted from a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their Norske Folkeeventyr.
Once upon a time there were three billy goats who were to go up to the hillside to make themselves fat. The name of all three was "Gruff."
On the way up was a bridge over a cascading stream they had to cross; and under the bridge lived a great ugly troll with eyes as big as saucers and a nose as long as a poker.
So first of all came the youngest Billy Goat Gruff to cross the bridge.
"Trip, trap, trip, trap! " went the bridge.
"Who's that tripping over my bridge?" roared the troll .
"Oh, it is only I, the tiniest Billy Goat Gruff and I'm going up to the hillside to make myself fat," said the billy goat, with such a small voice.
"Now, I'm coming to gobble you up," said the troll.
"Oh, no! Pray don't take me. I'm too little, that I am," said the billy goat. "Wait a bit till the second Billy Goat Gruff comes. He's much bigger."
"Well, be off with you," said the troll.
A little while after came the second Billy Goat Gruff to cross the bridge.
Trip, trap, trip, trap, trip, trap, went the bridge.
"Who's that tripping over my bridge?" roared the troll.
"Oh, it's the second Billy Goat Gruff, and I'm going up to the hillside to make myself fat," said the billy goat, who hadn't such a small voice.
"Now I'm coming to gobble you up," said the troll.
"Oh, no! Don't take me. Wait a little till the big Billy Goat Gruff comes. He's much bigger."
"Very well! Be off with you," said the troll.
But just then up came the big Billy Goat Gruff .
Trip, trap, trip, trap, trip, trap! went the bridge, for the billy goat was so heavy that the bridge creaked and groaned under him.
"Who's that tramping over my bridge?" roared the troll.
"It's I! The big Billy Goat Gruff ," said the billy goat, who had an ugly hoarse voice of his own.
"Now I 'm coming to gobble you up," roared the troll.
Well, come along! I've got two spears,
And I'll poke your eyeballs out at your ears;
I've got besides two curling-stones,
And I'll crush you to bits, body and bones.
That was what the big billy goat said. And then he flew at the troll, and poked his eyes out with his horns, and crushed him to bits, body and bones, and tossed him out into the cascade, and after that he went up to the hillside. There the billy goats got so fat they were scarcely able to walk home again. And if the fat hasn't fallen off them, why, they're still fat; and so, snip, snap, snout - this tale's told out.
* congrats crazypunk & clicsparky on your FTF! *
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