Arachne's Nephew, Aristotle Traditional Cache
GSFirefly: The trees have been limbed. I may be able to replace this. I will check and see what the possibilities are.
Arachne's Nephew, Aristotle
-
Difficulty:
-
-
Terrain:
-
Size: 
(not chosen)
Please note Use of geocaching.com services is subject to the terms and conditions
in our disclaimer.
Enjoy this trail on foot, bicycle, horseback, x-c skis, snowshoes, but no motorized vehicles are permitted. There is no parking very close to this cache, but it's an easy walk from Red Fir Road.
Arachne was a girl who lived in Greece a long time ago. She was a very good weaver and spinner. She wove all sorts of beautiful pictures into her cloth, and people came from all around to see her beautiful cloth. But Arachne was arrogant.
She began telling people she was better at spinning and weaving than the goddess Athena was. Athena was also known as a good spinner and weaver.
Athena was mad that Arachne would say that, and she challenged Arachne to a weaving contest. The two of them set up their looms in the same room, and they wove from early in the morning until it got too dark to see. They compared what they had done.
Athena had woven a beautiful cloth showing the gods and goddesses sitting together on Mt. Olympus and doing good deeds for people. But Arachne thought she was so smart, she wove a cloth making fun of the gods and goddesses, showing them getting drunk and falling down and making a mess of things. Still it was clearly better weaving than Athena had done. When Athena saw it she was even more angry than she had been before. Even though Arachne's weaving was better, Athena didn't care. She pointed her finger at Arachne and suddenly Arachne's nose and ears shrank up, her hair all fell out, her arms and legs got long and skinny, and her whole body shrank until she was just a little tiny spider. (Arachne means spider in Greek). "You want to spin," cried Athena, go ahead and spin!"
Her descendants are spinning to this very day!
Her nephew Aristotle (there is more than one Aristotle, you know, and this one thinks he should be the famous one!) lives along the Old Farragut Railroad Trail in beautiful Athol, Idaho. When he saw how much fun some of his cousins were having as geocaches, he decided to join them. He holds a bright red bison, with an inner nano container. Bring writing instrument and tweezers.
Aristotle is a handsome guy, and pretty good-sized, for his kind. He is slightly north of the trail, in plain sight if you get the correct angle. He is winter-friendly, so all you winter equestrians, x-c skiers, and snow shoers should be able to meet and greet him.
Congratulations to SCHWEITZERGUY on the FTF!
Additional Hints
(No hints available.)
Treasures
You'll collect a digital Treasure from one of these collections when you find and log this geocache:
Loading Treasures