Find the solution to each question and fill in the answer-numbers.
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A) You're driving along a highway to attend a geocaching event in Harrisburg and you see an overturned Fed Ex truck in the other lane. What should you do?
4 - Pull over in a safe manner and call 911. Look around to try to tell the 911 operator what you can see.
6 - Keep driving to get out of the way. Speed up so you don't get caught at the scene and to get to the event to sign in first.
8 - Stop immediately to go help because time is of the essence. Because your car is still in the road, lots more people will stop to help, too.
B) The CITO event was planned quickly so the trash would get picked up before the predicted snow would fall tomorrow, but the temperature seems to be falling today and it's getting windy. Some of the crew didn't bring warm enough coats and one of the litter-pickers is feeling chilly, tired, and irritable. Then he begins to shiver. What should you do?
3 - Everyone should go for an invigorating swim. Play marco-polo and try some synchronized moves.
9 - Build a bonfire out of all the litter. If the trees catch fire, Smokey Bear will come and hug the hypothermia victim to get him warm.
0 - Take him back to the public restroom that you had just passed. The heater is on in there and you'll be out of the wind. Have him drink some water and eat something.
C) After replacing a cache that had been really difficult to retrieve from the lush vegetation, you notice that the vegetation reminds you of the saying, "leaves of three, let it be." There are also small white berries on the plants. What should you do?
1 - Collect some of the plants with pretty berries. They're organic and will make a nice table centerpiece for the upcoming geocaching event.
4 - Wash your exposed skin with soap and water within 20 minutes. Realize the poison oils can be on your clothes and caching dog, too, so wash them carefully.
7 - Start scratching right away. You touched the plants already, so pull them all out to protect all the future cachers. Throw them into a cave to keep them from photosynthesizing.
D) You altered your bike route to find a lamppost cache, and when you reach under the skirt, a yellow-jacket defends the cache and stings your pinky finger. What should you do?
2 - Wave your hands about, consider amputation, and mark the cache as, "needs archived."
8 - Move away from the area, if there is a stinger in your pinky finger, scrape it out with a credit card or knife. If you carry an epi-pen for such an occasion, use it. Apply ice to the pinky finger.
5 - Yell loudly at the insect, suck on your pinky finger, and grab that cache to get the log signed.
E) You are hiking to a cache in the woods near the Creation Festival on a hot and humid summer day. You didn't think it would be too long of a hike, but your GPS unit keeps leading you in circles. You start sweating a lot more than usual, you get a headache, and your legs are cramping up. What should you do?
3 - Ignore what your body is telling you and keep searching for the cache. It can't be that much farther. Mind over matter.
0 - Find a nice sunny spot for a good work-out session. If you're sweating a lot, it must be a great time for you to lose some extra weight. Push yourself to your limit!
5 - Take a break in the shade. Drink water slowly to keep yourself hydrated. If you don't feel better, try for this cache on a cooler day. If you feel all right after the rest, keep drinking and resting on the way to the cache.
F) You and a caching friend are going for a 5/5 cache, and it's across the water on an island. You planned to paddle to the cache in a kayak. Your friend, an accomplished swimmer, dons a swimsuit and starts across the water. "Aaaah," screams your friend, suddenly struggling back to shore. "Golly, I've been stung a jellyfish! Aaaah!" Your friend looks at you and grimaces. What should you do?
6 - Have your friend relax and lie down. Flush the stung area with salt water, diluted ammonia, rubbing alcohol, or vinegar. Get help.
9 - Promise to avenge your friend's eventual death as you cross the water. Sign your friend's name in the log, too, and think of your shared happy times rather than your current separation and pain.
2 - If at all possible, capture the exact jellyfish that stung your friend for identification purposes. Hold it over your writhing friend and teach it a lesson. Say, "Just look at what you've done."
G) You cannot sleep, so you decide to go find that cache in the woods that you've been meaning to log. You know the trail so you start off without a flashlight. You trip over something across the trail. You realize that it must be a snake, because it bites your arm when you land on it. It rattles its tail as it slithers away from you. What should you do?
3 - Snakes like darkness, so getting out your flashlight will only anger it, causing it to strike again. Speak to the snake in Parseltongue to calm it and ask it for help. Try to charm the snake if you don't know Parseltongue. Do not move at all to avoid upsetting the snake and hope that someone will look for you in the morning.
8 - Jump around and shake your bitten arm vigorously to shake out the poison. Do not stop even if you get tired. Your spirit is your only hope.
9 - Stay calm and move away from the snake. Call for help. Loosely sling your bitten arm and try not to move it. Start to walk slowly to the trailhead if you have no immediate reaction.
H) How many of the following should be done before a cache trip:
- Take water
- Disconnect phone service so you won't be disturbed
- Tell someone where you're going and when you'll return
- Lighten your load - leave heavy water in the car
- Study a map of the area you'll visit
- Load new games onto your cell phone
- Read the cache page to know what to expect
- Make sure your cache bag contains a compass, first aid kit, and spare batteries
- Call the maintenance man to provide fresh batteries for your GPS unit
- Check the weather forecast
- Drink lots of alcohol to heighten your senses
- Take a buddy
I) A new cache is published, so you rush into the woods to find it. Your GPS unit points you off a trail into a jagger bush and you think you see an ammo can in the middle of it, so you charge into the bush. Your efforts are met with several scrapes. What should you do?
2 - Rub mud into your cuts to stop the bleeding so bears don't smell you. Use your chainsaw to cut down the jagger bushes for future cachers.
7 - Rinse the cuts with water and cover them with a bandage to keep out germs.
5 - Lay down on the trail and call out until someone comes to help you. After all, other cachers must be on their way to the new cache. Losing even the slightest bit of blood means that you cannot safely walk out of the woods without help.
J) While ascending to a 5/5 treetop cache in the woods, one of the group slipped and descended rather quickly. His hands have gotten rope burns and he's yelling something about his lower leg being broken. What should you do?
5 - Speak calmly to him. Pour cool water on his hands and cover them with clean cloth. Try to immobilize the hurt leg with two splints which reach above his knee and below his foot, tying the splints with four binding ties. Carry him out carefully without jarring his leg.
9 - Encourage him to get right back up that rope, so he'll get his confidence back.
7 - Call him names and run toward home. If he doesn't chase you, carry him out piggy-back style and bounce a lot to make his journey more fun.
K) You are out with a group of cachers, heading out to find a new cache together. You spot the cache in a stump the same moment that another cacher starts toward the stump. You hurry over so you can be the first one to sign the log, but trip over a tree root in your haste. Your ankle is hurt, but you can still walk on it for several steps. What should you do?
1 - Make the other cachers carry you out and give you any food, water, and money that they brought with them. You are hurt, so the world should pay for it.
8 - Study your foot, because this is the last time you will ever see it. Carefully amputate your foot above the ankle but below the knee. Use direct pressure to stop the bleeding. If it's towel day, use your towel to cover the stump. Bury your foot in the woods.
0 - Leave your boot on to support the injury and wrap your ankle and boot with a triangular bandage. That way you will still be able to walk back to your car.
L) You are about to do a cemetery cache because it's an easy cache near your home and you want to get it off your "nearest-to-home" list. Last week, someone was struck by lightning at this cemetery and is now there long-term. It was clear when you left your car, but a dark, anvil-shaped cloud entered the area and it started to rain. You hear thunder in the distance. What should you do?
2 - Rapidly retreat to your car or a building to sit out the storm. If you are too isolated to get inside, crouch down.
8 - Feel comfortable in this cemetery because lightning never strikes the same place twice. Act like a DJ and sing loudly in the rain as you knock this cache off your list.
0 - Avoid lightning strike by climbing the tallest tree you can find. Even if you are struck, you might gain super-caching powers or a Harry Potter scar.
M) Five miles into the woods, your group finds the cache, signs the log, and sits down to eat some apples. You take off your new socks and boots and notice that the spot on your foot that felt a little warm is now a giant blister. What should you do?
7 - Put both socks on the blistered foot, so one foot has two socks and the other has none for the hike back to the cars.
0 - Order some Papa John's Pizza and when it's delivered, hitch a ride with the delivery driver to get out of the woods.
3 - Use the moleskin in your first-aid kit to protect the blister, then wrap with a bandage before putting your boots back on.
N) You're wearing blaze orange while hiking in state game lands to find a multi cache that some friends from Estonia recommended. After finding the cache, you realize that it was a nice hike with lots of song birds, flowers, and butterflies. You also notice a tick-butt sticking out of your arm. What should you do?
3 - Name the tick and keep him as a pet. Post a note to the cache page to ask if anyone else found his brothers or sisters so you can adopt them, too.
1 - Use a tick tool or tweezers to gently grasp the tick close to the arm skin and pull him out. If he could have been there for 24 hours, call a doctor.
6 - Do the hokey-pokey and turn yourself around. Shake your arm and yell loudly at the tick.
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