Leaping Lions! It's Leap Year! Event Cache

This cache has been archived.

Guwisti: It's been a month and I believe everyone has logged. Even if you haven't you can still log after this is archived. Thanks again for attending this flashmob!

Some of you submitted your entry log with the incorrect date of when you attended the event. Normally I wouldn't point it out, however if you're wanting to fill up your calendar especially for Leap Year Day you might want to edit your log to reflect the 29th. Doesn't effect me either way, but will affect your statistics. :D

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Hidden : Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

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Happy Leap Year Day! For those of us new to caching in the last several years this is a great opportunity to fill in February 29th on our statistical calendars!

Join us for a flashmob event at the coordinates listed. It will probably be cold so it might be best to stay in our vehicles until just right at 6 p.m. If you do venture outside before this time do your best to look like muggles. When you see Pizzaboy2600 and myself emerge with our bright orange bucket then everyone should congregate at the Leaping Lion. Please bring a piece of paper with your name already on it to drop in the bucket. Schedule for the flash mob is listed below. It would be nice if if everyone could wear red petticoats, but even I know that’s next to impossible. SO, if everyone could wear a funky hat, or the strangest hat they have…or just any hat. I know I’ll be sporting my Sock Monkey hat and PB will wear his Domo hat. No dancing this time unless you just want to. Also please see the paragraph below and the schedule…if any unmarried women wish to propose there will be time for that. LOL! The sun sets at 6:13 in Fort Smith on this evening so it still should be light out.

And keep an eye out for PB’s eating and meeting event afterwards,GC3BNX4.

6:00 pm - Arrive at GZ (Drop your name in the bucket and mingle)
6:03 pm – Time for any unmarried women to propose (or more mingling) ;)
6:08 pm – Eat the required flashmob “meal” (most likely a hard candy)
6:10 pm – Get together for a group picture around the leaping lion
6:15 pm – Disperse immediately


On the British isles, it is a tradition that women may propose marriage only on leap years. While it has been claimed that the tradition was initiated by Saint Patrick or Brigid of Kildare in 5th century Ireland, this is dubious, as the tradition has not been attested before the 19th century. Supposedly, a 1288 law by Queen Margaret of Scotland (then age five and living in Norway), required that fines be levied if a marriage proposal was refused by the man; compensation ranged from a kiss to £1 to a silk gown, in order to soften the blow.[9] Because men felt that put them at too great a risk, the tradition was in some places tightened to restricting female proposals to the modern leap day, February 29, or to the medieval (bissextile) leap day, February 24.
According to Felten: "A play from the turn of the 17th century, 'The Maydes Metamorphosis,' has it that 'this is leape year/women wear breeches.' A few hundred years later, breeches wouldn't do at all: Women looking to take advantage of their opportunity to pitch woo were expected to wear a scarlet petticoat—fair warning, if you will."

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Yrncvat Yvba fgnghr ng Fghooyrsvryq Pragre ba gur pnzchf bs HNSF

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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