Note: In winter, do not walk or snowshoe on any groomed ski trails. While not necessary to search for this cache, a trail pass is needed to ski on the ski trails in the winter and to ride on the bike trails at all other times of the year. Hiking and snowshoeing do not require trail passes.
The cache is not at the listed coordinates!
You might end up getting wet if you go there.
The final is located within the boundaries of Hartman Creek State Park.
All park rules and fees apply.
Do not hunt this cache between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
When we camp at Hartman Creek State Park,
we sit around our fire as the campground settles down for the night.
It gets quieter. It gets darker.
At some point, as the fire dwindles to orange coals,
we decide it’s time to turn in, so we head to the shower building one more time.
There are electric lights on in the building as we approach the clearing,
but other than that, we see only the orange glow from the campfires,
the hissing yellow-white from the camp lanterns,
and the occasional guiding beam of a flashlight or two.
Then we look up. There are stars everywhere!
They are so bright and close! And they are all ours...
Below is simple sudoku puzzle. There's nothing very hard about it... You don't even have to be a sudoku star to figure this one out. However, at some point in your solve, you will have to make a decision. If you were doing a normal sudoku puzzle, you would say, “This isn’t solveable!” But remember: this is a puzzle for a geocache. It’s not a normal sudoku. You are not going for a solve but for the coordinates. Use your geosense. Think about what you need to do. Make a decision. Once you have done that, you will have the numbers you need AND you will have solved the sudoku puzzle in the process! After you have filled in the grid, take the numbers you have put in the boxes containing letters, and substitute them for the corresponding letters to find the final coordinates here:
N 44 AB.CDE W 089 FG.HJK
The Geocache Notification Form has been submitted to Park Manager Michael D. Bergum 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.