Last Frontier Council BSA Treasures: Alumni Multi-Cache
OleKim: I've made the difficult choice to archive this cache. Constant turnover at the museum has made it nearly impossible to keep this running as a multi-stage cache. I made them a poster with the information on it; I even created cards with the coordinates to the final stage so that the office only had to hand one to the inquiring geocacher. Nothing appears to work. The final straw came when museum staff arbitrarily began telling people this cache was no longer in play without notifying me.
I attempted to convert this one to a single-stage cache, but geocaching.com does not list that as an option. As a result, I'm pulling the plug on it. The container will remain in place until it disappears. If anyone wants to go ahead and seek it out, here are the coordinates for Stage III: N 35° 32.414 W 098° 40.229.
I do encourage cachers to make the effort to visit the museum. General Stafford's career was amazing; the displays are worth it!
Last Frontier Council BSA Treasures: Alumni
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This is a three-stage cache that highlights a famous alumnus of the Boy Scouts of America. Scouting celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2010. During that century, it has helped millions of youth become successes in all walks of life. It's an effort that will continue for the next 100 years.
Who were once Scouts? President Gerald Ford; adventurer Steve Fossett; actors Henry Fonda, Harrison Ford and Jimmy Stewart; Microsoft Founder Bill Gates; Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton; generals William Westmoreland and Tommy Franks; professional baseball player Albert Belle; directors Steven Spielberg and David Lynch; former Secretaries of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Robert McNamara; “Dirty Jobs” TV host Mike Rowe; governors Michael Dukakis, Lamar Alexander and Rick Perry; billionaire Ross Perot; NBA player Mark Madsen; CIA director Robert Gates; drag racing founder Don Garlits; Olympic athlete Willie Banks; NFL quarterback John Beck; and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Literally dozens of astronauts were also Scouts at one time, including Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon; Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell; and the Oklahoman to whom this cache is dedicated.
The posted coordinates will take you to a location in eastern Weatherford along historic Route 66. At this site, you will find a sign. Follow the directions posted on the sign and it will take you to Stage II.
When you arrive at Stage II, go inside. Tours are available 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and 1-5 p.m. on Sunday. Please be aware that there is an admission fee ... but it's worth it! Tour the museum and find the exhibit with our hero's Boy Scout scarf. The narrative tells the Scout rank he earned. Once you know it, go to the museum front desk, tell staff you’re a geocacher and give his Scout rank. He will give you the coordinates for Stage III. (NOTE: If you don't want to spend the time touring the museum, or if you don't want to spring for the admission charge, you can find out this information on the Internet if you're a good sleuth.)
The D/T rating on this cache is based on Stage III. Be prepared to do some mild bushwacking. The cache contains a postcard that can be completed and sent to Last Frontier Council headquarters in Oklahoma City. It offers a chance to win a rare 2010 Scouting geocoin. One coin will be given away monthly as long as supplies last. This cache marked the official release of my "Just Travelin' with Tom" TB.
And now, a little about our alumni...
He was among the group of astronauts selected by NASA in 1962 for projects Gemini and Apollo. In 1965, he piloted Gemini VI to the first rendezvous in space. In 1966 he commanded Gemini IX and performed a demonstration of an early rendezvous that would be used in the Apollo missions. He commanded the first flight of the lunar module above the moon during Apollo 10, which set the stage for the actual moon landing by Apollo 11 in 1969. He logged his last space flight as commander of the Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975, a joint space flight culminating in the first meeting in space between U.S. astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts.
He is cited in the Guinness Book of World Records for highest speed ever attained by man, when Apollo 10 attained 24,791 mph on re-entry. In all, he logged 507 hours and 43 minutes in space flight and has flown 127 different types of aircraft and four different types of spacecraft.
The "Get in the Game!" committee of the Last Frontier Council is hiding four other Treasures of Scouting caches around western Oklahoma. Other caches highlight Cub Scouting, Volunteering, Boy Scouting and Venturing. We challenge you to find all of them!
We also challenge you to volunteer to help a Scout, whether it is as a Cubmaster, Scoutmaster, Den leader -- or maybe simply as an involved parent. Geocaching has been selected as a Boy Scout merit badge. Volunteer to become a merit badge counselor and teach a boy how to geocache!
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