Challenge Trail - Animals Mystery Cache
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Cache removed ... retrieved or missing or relocated elsewhere by critters ... NOT available to log.
Challenge Trail - Animals
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CHALLENGE TRAIL
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Complete the Challenge Trail and earn a prize. See profile.
THIS IS A CHALLENGE CACHE.
You must read the cache page for requirements to log this cache.
Failure to follow the listed rules WILL result in your log being deleted.
Enjoy the journey as well as the destination.
PART A - COORDINATES
Have fun solving the riddles to determine the cache coordinates.
The posted coords are for the trail -and- the solved coords are for the nearby cache.
4 1 º 1____ 2____. 3____ 4____ 5____ N
0 7 8 º 6____ 7____. 8____ 9____ 10____W
RIDDLES
1. How many skunks does it take to stink up a house?
2. If a crocodile makes shoes, what does a banana make?
3. What do you get if you cross Bambi with a ghost?
4. What do you call a crying Camel?
5. What did the buffalo say to his son when he went away on a trip?
6. What's a good job for an octopus?
7. What is a sheep's favorite game?
8. Where did the turtle get a new shell?
9. Why don't anteaters ever get sick?
10. Why do male deer need braces?
ANSWERS
3 A humpback wail!
5 A phew!
4 Baa-dminton!
1 Bamboo!
8 Because they have buck teeth!
9 Because they're full of ant-ibodies!
7 Bi-son!
3 From the hard-wear store!
7 Slippers!
4 The army!
PART B - CACHE
Find the cache and sign the log in the cache.
PART C - CHALLENGE
Complete all the requirements to log a find and earn your smiley.
1. Find and log an animal cache for each letter of the alphabet.
-The animal does not need to be the first word.
-The animal cannot be embedded in another word.
-Animals may be real or mythical.
FOUR LETTERS
Whether you are caching in the woods or in the city, we all have encountered animals during our adventures. You may substitute up to FOUR letters with caches where you have encountered an animal and told of that special encounter in your log.
2. Log alphabetically. If the animal is not the first word, use the animal first and then the cache name.
3. You are not required to find this cache container on the same day you fulfilled the challenge requirements. You may find this cache prior to qualifying. Just sign the log and write a note on the cache page. Then when you qualify, you may claim a find for this cache.
4. Cache hides/placements do not count toward this goal. Only finds are valid.
5. You do not need to obtain permission from the cache owner before logging this find. Your log/bookmark/screenshot confirms that you have fulfilled the requirements.
My logs show completion of the challenge as follows:
Alpaca GC34HJ5 - Beaver GC1CWZH - Crow GC17570 - Deer GC1C731 - Eagles GC2MY32 - Fish GC18VYX - Grouse GC3YTJQ - Horse GC16C02 - I Special Encounter - Jaybird GC2R71P - Kitty GC14ZX8 - Lizard GC1X61K - Moose GC14V5E - Nightingale GC57YJH - Owl GC27ZPY - Pig GC107EA - Quail GC1QCHP - Raven GC284NZ - Sasquatch GC1J4KP - Turtle GC163X4 - U Special Encounter - Vixen GC2285D - Waterfowl GC1E204 - X Special Encounter - Yak GCW1XB - Z Special Encounter
SPECIAL ENCOUNTER - BUG - Island Paradise GC1477M
While retrieving the cache .... it moved! Cache and critter grew wings.
SPECIAL ENCOUNTER - DEER - TMHCR #079WV GC4771N
We spent a delightful day caching the Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management area. We were treated with eye candy at this site watching three deer waving their white flags as they ran down the road.
SPECIAL ENCOUNTER - ELK - AGT-Elk-Distant Bugle GC167AV
[Thank you for bringing us here. Last week a friend and I arrived after dark and were unable to locate the cache. However, I had the most awesome experience.] I rested under the tree and felt totally safe, enfolded by the energy of this sacred tree. I understood how protected the wildlife are when they bed down for the night under God's earthly canopies. [I returned today and easily found the cache. On the way down the mountain, saw three cows and one calf cross the road. On the opposite side stood a majestic bull. Two awesome experiences at one cache site!]
SPECIAL ENCOUNTER - HORSE - AGT-Forest-Horses Don't Fly?? GC16C02
What majestic animals! They show such serene strength as they graze -or- soaring spirit as they run, with manes and tails catching the wind.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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Fznyy ebhaq terra pbagnvare. OLBC
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