O'Neil Trail To Eagle (OTTE)
You are about to embark on an epic five stage geocaching adventure across O'Neil Regional Park. Each site contains a geocache, your reward, for exploring the park. Each site was constructed, designed, built, and installed by myself and several volunteers over the span of a few weeks. In total, almost 500 man hours of planning went into this geocaching course to bring people to O'Neil Regional Park to explore and to have fun. I hope you enjoy your visit to O'Neil Regional Park. Happy Caching!
If you are new to geocaching, then welcome to the hobby! This course contains five different geocache sites. You can complete them in any order you want.
Because geocaching can be hard for new geocachers, I've designed this course so that everyone can find them. To do so, I needed a way to make sure the cache would not get stolen. For your connivence, the combination questions are listed on the bottom of each OTTE geocache webpage.
While geocaching in the park it is very important you obey all the signs. All the geocaches in this course are located in the Day Use only section of O'Neil Regional Park. Please do not attempt them after dark. Also, dogs ARE allowed in the park, but only on designated trails. Not all of these geocaches are dog friendly, so please pay close attention to the attribute section of each OTTE geocache on their individual webpage.
You are looking for elevated Trex® boxes, about 3-4 feet high, with padlocks. Inside contains the geocache, and goodies. There are two containers inside the boxes. Please do NOT take anything inside the small circular container as this is part of the geocache. You can trade with anything inside the larger container. Please trade equally. In order to obtain the combination, you must answer three questions at each site. These questions can be found the OTTE geocache webpage or the combination information flyer which will soon be available at the O'Neil Regional Park Nature Center.
Now go outdoors and enjoy O'Neil Regional Park! I use multi-million dollar satellites to find Tupperware containers in the woods. What's you're hobby?
Combination Questions:
Combination = ABCD
AB = the total number of letters and numbers in the dedication year. Your answer should be two digits long. Then subtract it by the number of individual plaques there are (not including the one on the cache).
C = The number of letters on the larger plaque in the first line before you reach the letter F. Do not count F towards your number. The answer will be prime.
D = On the smaller plaque, last line there are a few numbers from the Board of Supervisors Resolution. Count the number of numbers in this line.
Eagle Scout Project
Adam Margolis
Troop 787 from Mission Viejo, California
March 2015
Cache placed with permission with O'Neil Park Rangers
Contact Information for O'Neil Park: travis.martz@ocparks.com
Contact Information Regarding this cache: bluesnote@msn.com