11/6/19 Gygantasaurus has gone into hibernation (my storage shed) for the winter. Don't bother looking for this Big Guy until next spring. A tiny micro is in it's place. Starting tomorrow (11/7/19) Robinson Timber will be working in these woods. This is the start of the USFS Big Jack East project. Watch for heavy equipment.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Colossus Containerus
Class: Hydus Humungus
Order: Gynormus Rotundoria
Family: Ugottobekiddingus Alpineboblia*
Genus: Absurdus Sizus
Species: Gygantasaurus Cacheia
This is the prehistoric ancestor to Camouflageus Cacheia (GC20E02). These creatures were just a wee bit larger a hundred million years ago. As the Yin and Yang of caches, where Camouflageus Cacheia is so tiny and so very hard to see (much less, capture), Gygantasaurus Cacheia is quite the opposite. (Sorry….the biggest size I could check was “large”). IMPORTANT: Approach this from the north (downhill side) near the long, bent over (horizontal) fir tree…look for a red ribbon that marks the little path to the center of the bushy thicket. Any wagers on how long this cache will survive, given it’s location, size, and the rather high muggle factor close to the road? Could be a few days, but I’m going to be optimistic and lay my bet at approximately 3.14159265358 years, possibly divided by ”r” squared. After a few idle minutes of toying with expansive detailed algorithms, the odds of it’s demise have been calculated, by my eight year old son, as follows:
1. 23%…..A cacher drops a cookie in it and a mama bear and her cubs shred it all into confetti.
2. 19%…..Another big snowy winter flattens it like a pancake.
3. 16%…..A sharp eyed muggle spies it and lugs it home because he’s too cheap to buy a similar container, as his got smashed last winter by a snowplow, and then sells the contents on ebay.
4. 11%…..A cacher drops a cookie in it and a family of raccoons ransacks it, “just for fun”.
5. 9%…..A sharp eyed do-gooder spies it, and tidies up the forest.
6. 8%…..A forest fire rages through and all that is left is a smoldering heap of petrochemicals.
7. 6%….Some sharp eyed tweenagers vandalize it, “just for fun”.
8. 5%…..A cacher drops a cookie in it and the field mice gnaw into it and find a perfect new home.
9. 2%…..Aliens land nearby, return the container and contents to their home planet Zerka for further analysis.
10. 1%…..A cacher drops a cookie in it and……….
Please do not move the cache. Inside is a large bucket for smaller items, and inside that is a smaller container for even smaller items, including the log book. By the way, the lid is not a monster frisbee (I guess that would be #11 on the list…if there were any “%’s” remaining).