Some Background
Many people have probably seen logs by Walkin’ Ed while caching. Others have probably tried (and a few succeeded) in beating him to a FTF. Walkin’ Ed began caching a little over 10 years ago. Things were different then. Park and grabs were rare. A cache hunt often required a nice walk in the woods and you were usually rewarded with a well stocked container, a nice view, or a place you didn't know existed. Cachers usually wrote stories in the log book and on-line. TFTC and TNLN hadn’t been invented yet. A big day of caching might have gotten you 10 finds but you likely had to drive 50 or more miles to earn those 10 smileys. These are the types of caches that Walkin’ Ed has usually enjoyed. He will still go after the park and grabs because he can’t help it but a nice long walk in the woods to an enjoyable place with a nice view can be more rewarding than finding a dozen caches before lunch. He also likes the thunk sound when opening and closing an ammo can.
This cache is hidden in honor of our Dad, Walkin’ Ed and his 10,000 and counting finds. This is not a park and grab.
You will walk over 7 miles round trip for this one.
Below is a puzzle where you will have to do some simple research into Ed’s log entries and some of his memorable and/or milestone caches and find numbers for questions 1-14 (clicking the links at each question will bring you to the appropriate log, or at least close to it). Use your answers to solve for WP1.
Solve for WP1:
WA° LK.INE DS° Ca.cHe
Question 1:
Silver mine was Walkin’ Ed’s first geocache but it took him nearly 18 months to log it as a find. Why was this? _ = W
Answer 1 if he did not get internet access until sometime in late 2003.
Answer 4 if he did not have a geocaching account until over a year after he made the find.
Answer 5 if he didn’t realize you had to log caches online and in the logbook.
Answer 8 if he didn’t realize that the strange box he found in the woods was a geocache.
Question 2:
While searching for Wilderness Island (no boat required) , Walkin’ Ed had an unfortunate incident with an animal at this cache. What type of animal resulted in this being an expensive caching day? _ = A
Answer 2 if Rabid Dog
Answer 1 if Angry Goose
Answer 0 if Rattlesnake
Answer 3 if a swarm of bees
Question 3:
When Walkin’ Ed finally found the final for New York’s Delorme Challenge he had some issues unlocking the lock that held the cache shut. What was he considering doing to get the lock opened? _ = L
Answer 1 if going to a hardware store and buying boltcutters to get the lock off
Answer 2 if smashing it with a rock from the nearby wall
Answer 0 if taking the cache home with him and sawing off the lock
Answer 4 if using a small blowtorch (which he happened to have in the car) to burn the lock off
Question 4:
Walkin’ Ed walked across a frozen lake with some other cachers to find Swimmin' Ed. How many FTF coins did Ed leave in the cache? _ = K
Question 5:
After making his way up and around some cliffs to get to Glory!!! Ed realized that there must have been a simpler way to get there based on something that he found near the cache. What did he find that made him draw this conclusion? _ = I
Answer 2 if an empty keg of beer
Answer 4 if a rusted out VW bug
Answer 6 if 3 – 55 gallon drums
Answer 5 if several lawn chairs
Question 6:
Black Rock Mtn letterbox hybrid cache was Walkin’ Ed’s first “official” find as it was the first cache he found after creating a geocaching account. What was his complaint about this cache? _ = N
Answer 2 if animals had chewed the lid.
Answer 4 if there was no pen in the container.
Answer 6 if the logbook was wet
Answer 7 if there was no stamp in the container.
Question 7:
Early in his caching career Walkin’ Ed often cached with an imaginary friend. His imaginary friend had a habit of taking all of the money from caches that they found together. If you look through many of Walkin’ Ed’s early logs you will see evidence of his friend taking all the money. What was Ed’s imaginary friend’s name? _ = E
Answer 1 if Butch Cassidy
Answer 0 if John Dillinger
Answer 2 if Patty Hearst
Answer 7 if D.B. Cooper
Question 8:
In the log for Hudson View Series - Emeline, Walkin’ Ed shows his age by describing how a relative of his never owned a car because he could walk, take a train, or take a ferry anywhere he wanted to go. What relative was Ed referring to? _ = D
Answer 3 if his great-great uncle
Answer 4 if his late cousin Ronald
Answer 5 if his great-grandfather
Answer 7 if his grandfather
Question 9:
To solve John Hart Tales Walkin’ Ed had to use a local library to do some research. Inside the librarian not only recognized Ed but she insisted that he had an overdue book from 1957 (Walkin’ Ed wasn’t even born in 1957)! How much did the librarian claim he owed for the book? _ = S
Answer 4 if $750
Answer 5 if only $10 because the library’s policy does not allow them to collect more than $10 on any single item
Answer 3 if an Arm and a Leg
Answer 6 if all the money that Dillinger took from the caches
Question 10:
Walkin’ Ed thought that he had found Stonehenge (jr.) before but couldn’t remember when. So he did the only logical thing: he made another trip out to the cache in order to check the logbook for the date so that he could log his find on-line. When he looked through the logbook what was he surprised to find? _ = C
Answer 1 if it was that he had never found the cache before
Answer 2 if it was that he had found the cache twice before
Answer 3 if it was that he had been FTF on the cache
Answer 4 if nothing. The log book was missing!
Question 11:
Jack Straw was Walkin’ Ed’s first FTF. Today, despite Ed not having the ability to receive text messages notifying him of new caches, over 5% of his cache finds have been FTFs. Rather than declaring that he found a blank logbook or that he was FTF, Ed referred to this cache as a certain type of cache. How many letters are in the word that Ed referred to this cache as?
_ = a
Question 12:
Klizich put out a tribute cache to Walkin’ Ed called Walkin' Ed's cache and someone or something left Ed a nice present less than 50 feet from the cache. What did they leave him?
_ = c
Answer 2 if a bowling ball sized TB
Answer 3 if a new GPSr
Answer 7 if a pile of poop
Answer 5 if a new pair of sneakers
Question 13:
Hi-Tor cache was probably Walkin’ Ed and his imaginary friend’s most lucrative cache but they did not trade evenly. What did they leave in place of the $1,000,002.35 that they took from the cache? _ = H
Answer 0 if an empty bottle of bubbles
Answer 1 if aTravel Bug
Answer 8 if a toy policeman
Answer 9 if nothing but footprints
Question 14:
Walkin’ Ed saw two types of animals while searching for Hollowed Ground. After seeing the two deer, what other animal did Ed see on the trail? _ = e
Answer 2 if a housecat
Answer 4 if a mountainlion
Answer 6 if a bear
Answer 8 if a capybara
Answer 0 if a frog
When you arrive at WP1 you will find a small lock-n-lock with a question inside it. Answer that question correctly and you will have the coordinates to the final cache container. As mentioned before, the final container is a platinum ammo box. No need to worry, the puzzle at WP1 is very simple and anyone should be able to solve it but having a printout of this cache page will help if you get stuck.
We are in the area 12-15 times per year. If maintenance is required between visits Walkin' Ed will provide maintenance. NYS Parks Permits GC118SF & GC119SF