LEAVE THE STAMP IN THE CONTAINER--IT IS NOT A TRADE ITEM!
The cache container is NOT at the listed coordinates!
Ma and Pa and the three girls were hiking on one of the trails in Roche-A-Cri State Park. Not too far into their hike, they stopped at a brown marker, where Mary observed, "This sign post has the picture of a hiker on it. Let's see if we can find any more. We'll count this one as number one." As they went down the trail, Carrie sighed, "When will we see another sign? I'm getting tired." "Look, Carrie!" shouted Laura. "I see another brown sign just ahead! That would be a second one. Maybe we can count five, since there are five of us!" So they kept on walking until they had counted a total of five of the brown sign posts.
Not far beyond the fifth brown hiking sign (which they had to look on the back side of to see the hiker), Mary and Laura looked off into the woods to the right of the trail. "What are you girls looking for?" asked Ma and Pa. "Maybe there's a letterbox in there," they replied. Carrie said that she just wanted to sit on that little bench on the side of the trail up ahead, and she also noticed another brown post there. "Come on, Carrie, " said Laura. "That's too far ahead. And besides, that would be sign post #6, and there are only five of us."
Carrie just sat on the bench and said she didn't want to go into the woods, and maybe the letterbox was in a stump right near the trail. "No, Carrie. It's over here a bit, and I think it might be hidden in a big pine tree!" exclaimed Mary, as she started looking under some green-needled branches. The adventurous Laura was already ahead of Mary and Ma in the woods (Pa had stayed back with Carrie), and started looking at the base of every oak tree she could spot until she came to a pair of smaller ones that had some old logs and wood pieces around them below a big arched tree that had snapped off and fallen nearby but not to the ground there. "This would be a perfect spot for a letterbox. Come help me search!" she said.
Who made the letterbox find? Who do you think???!!!
This cache is in Roche-A-Cri State Park. A current Wisconsin State Parks sticker (hourly, daily, or yearly) is required for all parked vehicles. The park is closed to non-campers from 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. Do not hunt for this cache during those hours.
Starting on January 1, 2013, hunting and trapping has been allowed in certain areas of Wisconsin state parks during certain hunting seasons. To see what the dates are and which areas are open to hunting in Roche-A-Cri State Park, click on the "Related Link" below the D/T star ratings at the top left of this cache page. Then scroll down for the link for this state park.
The Geocache Notification Form has been submitted to Park Manager Joe Stecker-Kochanski of the Wisconsin DNR. Geocaches placed on Wisconsin Department of Natural Resource managed lands require permission by means of a notification form. Please print out a paper copy of the notification form, fill in all required information, then submit it to the land manager. The DNR Notification form and land manager information can be obtained by looking at this page on the WGA website.
Permission to follow the story directions in this letterbox hybrid through the Roche-A-Cri Woods State Natural Area has been granted by Thomas A. Meyer of the Wisconsin DNR. The container is NOT located within the SNA boundaries.