Challenge Trail - Advice Column Mystery Cache
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Challenge Trail - Advice Column
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CHALLENGE TRAIL
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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.
The cache IS NOT at the posted coordinates.
THE OAK TREE AND THE IVY by Eugene Field 1886
Fill in the missing words.
Count the number of letters in each word.
Add or subtract to determine the final coords.
A part of the story is given in each of the following challenge caches:
Advice Column - Alien Encounter - Busy Days
Coloring Book - Elements - Happy Birthday
PART A - CACHE
Find the cache and sign the log in the cache.
COORDS N 41° 50. A (-3) B (-4) C (-3) W 078° 38. D (-3) E (-2) F (-2)
WORDS laughing majestic moon tendrils whispered wonderment
1. In the greenwood stood a mighty oak. So "A" was he that all who came that way paused to admire his strength and beauty, and all the other trees of the greenwood acknowledged him to be their monarch.
2. Now it came to pass that the ivy loved the oak-tree, and inclining her graceful "B" where he stood, she crept about his feet and twined herself around his sturdy and knotted trunk. And the oak-tree pitied the ivy.
3. "Oho!" he cried, "C" boisterously, but good-naturedly,--"oho! so you love me, do you, little vine? Very well, then; play about my feet, and I will keep the storms from you and will tell you pretty stories about the clouds, the birds, and the stars."
4. The ivy marvelled greatly at the strange stories the oak-tree told; they were stories the oak-tree heard from the wind that loitered about his lofty head and "D" to the leaves of his topmost branches. Sometimes the story was about the great ocean in the East, sometimes of the broad prairies in the West, sometimes of the ice-king who lived in the North, and sometimes of the flower-queen who dwelt in the South. Then, too, the "E" told a story to the oak-tree every night,--or at least every night that she came to the greenwood, which was very often, for the greenwood is a very charming spot, as we all know. And the oak-tree repeated to the ivy every story the moon told and every song the stars sang.
5. "Pray, what are the winds saying now?" or "What song is that I hear?" the ivy would ask; and then the oak-tree would repeat the story or the song, and the ivy would listen in great "F".
PART B - CHALLENGE
Complete all the requirements to log a find and earn your smiley.
1. Find and log 30 caches that contain advice in the title.
For example, you could say: "My mother said Have a pleasant day".
2. 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.
3. Your cache events/placements do not count toward this goal.
4. 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 as follows:
GC4Y5RR C-N-C Challenge: Don't Take a Day Off
GCRC6M Dodge the Barrage
GCTDB9 Don't BLINK***
GC1T41C Don't forget to sign the log
GC155E4 Don't Get Bogged Down
GCAE4F "Don't Give up the Ship!"
GCYPQ4 Don't go near the Water
GC284N1 Don't Just Talk the Talk
GCVRPR Don't Park Here
GC3Q1M9 Don't Turn Around
GC3FCVK Enjoy The View
GC499CA "ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK"
GC2RZRE Face Your Fears
GC2XHBG Find This One In a "Jiffy"
GCJNZ7 Get to the Point
GC2TQG2 Get Walking Some (GWS) in McKean County!
GC9228 Hang in There!
GC26C93 Have A Pleasant Day
GC3VWT2 Kick Up Your Heels
GC314R8 Log it!
GC3DQKD Park N Cache
GC2683A Pull Me Up
GC3QMAQ Res-Q-Me #25 Glade VFD Sta. 57 Warren Co.
GCK3T1 Rock On
GC2X259 Slow Down Or You're Busted!!!
GCJRE6 Smile!
GC19GP7 Stack `em high!
GC4WN3G STOP AT THE T-BIRD
GC2X2HF Stroll Along Stroud's
GC3QQGD Take a Deep Breath
GC4BF5Y Take a hike at night
GC1CN32 Try And Save
GCB22C Walk the Block
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Haqre zbff-pbirerq ybt.
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