***Please be gentle with the container. It cannot be replaced if broken.***
FINDERS: Please take care to return the container to its home completely and securely. I'd like this one to last! Thanks!
Access this cache from the Indian Creek Trail only. The trail opens 1/2 hour before sunrise and closes 1/2 hour after sunset, so plan your time accordingly.
BYOP. Please return the log container to its proper spot after signing. Also PLEASE PLEASE replace the container by putting the holder back in the white round tube exactly like you found it.
The notoriously curious and clever raccoon.
From Wikipedia. Only a few studies have been undertaken to determine the mental abilities of raccoons, most of them based on the animal's sense of touch. In a study by the ethologist H. B. Davis in 1908, raccoons were able to open 11 of 13 complex locks in fewer than 10 tries and had no problems repeating the action when the locks were rearranged or turned upside down. Davis concluded they understood the abstract principles of the locking mechanisms and their learning speed was equivalent to that of rhesus macaques.[67] Studies in 1963, 1973, 1975 and 1992 concentrated on raccoon memory showed they can remember the solutions to tasks for up to three years.[7] In a study by B. Pohl in 1992, raccoons were able to instantly differentiate between identical and different symbols three years after the short initial learning phase.[7] Stanislas Dehaene reports in his book The Number Sense raccoons can distinguish boxes containing two or four grapes from those containing three.[68]
For this cache you are going to need to get inside the mind of a raccoon. Put on your black mask, focus, and then channel your inner ring-tail. Be clever, be sly, be a hunter. Explore curiously and get that cache!
