Trip to OZ - the Wizard of OZ Traditional Cache
barondriver: Putting this string out as new since they hadn't been found since 2016. Replaced two and verified one that was there.
Trip to OZ - the Wizard of OZ
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Click on the Wizard's picture to review the movie!
Your task is much easier than getting the Wicked Witch's broomstick!
I do suggest that you spend the time to do this prior to your trip to find the Witches..or you will be making another trip back..hint..hint
Along the old Rail Road Track bed..This is Number Eight of Eight of a Wizard of Oz Series...yep..I'm done with these 
PLEASE PARK ONLY ON THE EAST SIDE BY THE ROAD CLOSED SIGN! DO NOT PARK ON OR DRIVE DOWN THE DIRT ROAD ON THE NORTHSIDE!! THE ROAD ON THE WESTSIDE IS A PRIVATE DRIVE.
You might want to bring along the hiking stick. Some PI..uneven terrain..Weeds and gravel and probably a Tick and Spider haven in the summer
The Wizard is one of the characters in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Unseen for most of the novel, he is the ruler of the Land of Oz and highly venerated by his subjects. Believing he is the only man capable of solving their problems, Dorothy Gale and her friends travel to the Emerald City, the capital of Oz, to meet him. Oz is very reluctant to meet them, but eventually they are granted an audience. Every time the Wizard appears in a different form, once as a giant head, once as a beautiful fairy, once as ball of fire, and once as a horrible monster.
Eventually, it is revealed that Oz is actually none of these things, but rather a kind, ordinary, man from Omaha, Nebraska, who has been using a lot of elaborate magic tricks and props to make himself seem "great and powerful." Working as a magician for a circus, he wrote OZ on the side of his hot air balloon for promotional purposes. One day his balloon sailed into the Land of Oz, and found himself worshipped as a great sorcerer. As Oz had no leadership at the time, he became Supreme Ruler of the kingdom, and did his best to sustain the myth.
He leaves Oz at the end of the novel, again in a hot air balloon. After the Wizard's departure, the Scarecrow is briefly enthroned, until the rightful hereditary ruler of Oz, Princess Ozma, is freed from the witch Mombi at the end of The Marvelous Land of Oz.
In Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Oz explains that his real name is Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkel Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs. To shorten this name, he used only his initials (O.Z.P.I.N.H.E.A.D.), but since they spell out the word pinhead, he shortened his name further and called himself "Oz".
In the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, The Wizard's character is similar to that found in the earlier books: a bumbling "humbug." He was played by actor Frank Morgan. The same actor also played several other roles in the movie; including Professor Marvel, the mysterious traveling fortuneteller that Dorothy meets in Kansas, the Doorman at the Emerald City, the Guard at the Gates to Oz's Castle and the Coachman. His face was also presumably used as the projected image of the Wizard. Like Dorothy, the Wizard hails from Kansas, proudly stating that he is "an old Kansas man myself, born and bred in the heart of the Western Wilderness." In the film, the Wizard is seen only as a floating head and as a human, not in any of the other shapes that he appears in in the book.
The Wizard's balloon in the movie has the name Omaha on it, reflecting that the Wizard originated from Omaha, Nebraska, just as in the book.
Container is a Camoed Ammobox (btw..these are getting hard to comeby) with a logbook and trade items.
Please Do NOT post a picture of the geocache or give away the hiding technique..let's keep it fun!! Thanks!
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