Arachne's Grandson Arthur Traditional Cache
Hidden : 4/9/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Park and grab, with plenty of roadside parking. Great opportunity for CITO here. Might be handicachable. Marginally available in winter.

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!"

Arachne's descendants are spinning to this very day.

Her grandson Arthur lives north of Spirit Lake, Idaho. Like many of his relatives, he likes to be tucked away. He gets lonely, though. Some of his relatives have told him that they have found social contacts and friendly interaction by becoming geocaches. Arthur has decided to give the cache life a try. His opportunity was provided by the archival of a nearby cache.

Log a bison. Please be careful to put cache back as it was, replacing it carefully and hiding it well. The bison is not attached; just "snugged in there." You'll need a writing instrument and something - tweezers; safety pin; logroller - with which to extract the log from its inner container.

Congratulations to Schweitzerguy on the First to Find!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Boivbhf ybpngvba.

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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