Don't make this harder than it is; don't think, just do
A spoiler photo has been added to the gallery to solve stage one.
(The feet keep breaking on the men, you need the 1 man who tells distance, Follow the Hints in the poam well. This has been raised to a difficulty of 4.5.)
When the sun is shining, full and bright, this means GeoCaching is defiantly alright!
When night has come and is here to stay, GeoCachers, I ask you to please stay away!
So that you and the cache stay safe and sound, please look for this hide with no Muggles around!
To take or trade a travel bug is OK, but only take ones you can help on their way!
The instructions below are all written in verse, so you do not struggle, flounder or curse.
Before you take off and are on your way, there are a few warnings you must hear me say.
If you end in the woods you know you are right, careful of plants, animals and insects that bite.
Greenville County Parks and Recreation (Joey F.) wants a safe place to play, if problems with locals just walk away.
If anything happens tell of the event; Joey can be there for problems to help discourage and prevent.
This is a safe hunt and place to play, but do it in light and the muggles away.
Packing some gear is a needed thing; this is a list of items to bring.
A pen, tweezers and stamp book are things not to pass, bug spray and a bag for more help than trash.
Plastic glove, wipes, sanitizer and water that is cool, so you don’t have to rely on the box being full.
“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is!”
Shakespeare's Hamlet, 1602
How fragile is life is what Hamlet said; in his hands the skull of Yorick, his friend, now dead.
With life comes death and death comes life; this cache is meant to bring you no grief and no strife.
In the center of the path, a tree stands alone; proud and tall, a king on his throne.
From the front it is healthy, a beautiful view; the back will look different to me and to you.
The split in the tree is not minor or meek; it’s rotting inside, the odor is reek.
Use a light to reach into this place so bleak; a one gallon plastic, camo jar is the object you seek.
It is painted brown, dark green and black; in hopes this cache avoids a muggle attack.
At the base of the tree a camouflaged box as well, with items to remove the muck and the smell.
Why a large box, it peaks your suspicion, you must open the top to continue your mission.
When you see them come out, collect them in a pen, you are now looking at 100 Army men.
NOT FOR TRADE these items galore; you must look through them all as you need only four.
Flip each man over and don't be lack, for the bottom will show four numbers of black.
Straight, up the hill,
behind the tree is where you must stay, for this is only how you will be shown the way.
Making a straight line behind the tree, in the direction I'll tell you, you must align the first three.
The straight line you form will not go far, but straight back (facing the tree) it goes so you can't see your car.
Object number one is throwing something at the tree, for the next two placements the feet are the key.
Two and Three left foot, One and Two right, the third man has the treasure in sight.
You can look in the gallery of the picture as well, although one man is misplaced, this is easy as ... Heck!
Look at this man close, look at this man well, the binoculars in his hands have a story to tell.
You have the direction to follow so don't pitter, patter, the leader tells distance so his direction don't matter.
The Fourth is the leader, good followers you’ll make, for he will tell you how many feet you must take.
Set a GPS waypoint here keeping the map in sight; use the pointer to tell you the feet you’ve gone to the right.
His words are worth gold, now-a-days cash; his directions you followed led straight to the stash.
A camouflaged 2 quart bucket worked fine; be careful and look, some things there are mine.
A log is there to record your journey / precession, with another item give your best Hamlet impression.
Strike your best pose, give the camera a stare, you may even be the next Burton or Sir Olivier
Have your picture taken, as hamlet you'll be, post it to this cache for all to see.
With the rubber stamp & ink pad you know what to do, if you don’t have a stamp-book the blank cards are for you.
Of course the above four mentioned items must stay, but any swag and Travel Bugs may be taken away.
A good rule of caching that we must not drop; an item of equal or greater value you leave for the swap.
When departing the scene I ask a minute you stay, look around that all things are put back away.
You are done and are ready to leave in a flash, but make sure it is set so the next person's is an enjoyable cache.
I know this cache and verse went on for a while, I hope you walked away with a smiley and a smile.
We all crawl through dirt and from thorns take a lashing, but it is done for the fun, of Safe, Happy Caching!
He told the story below, it was very nice, the FTF must go to pikespice
He was right there too, as the story will tell, so second to find goes to OconeeBell
These two cachers raced for the FTF prize, the way they worked together makes both of them first and winners in my eyes!
You both did extremely well in order to fine this cache, your real prize and reminder is the bug & thorn induced rash.
GeoJoe
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