Official Stuff
This cache is located in Sandy Creek Park. As of 5/1/21, there is current a $2/person fee to enter the park. Please obey posted park hours (They vary by season and are available online or posted at the gate). DO NOT HUNT OUTSIDE OF POSTED HOURS. Additionally, please make sure we follow all park rules, including:
- Please respect the property and Leave No Trace.
- Park only in designated areas. Do NOT park on the sides of roads or in non-designated parking.
- Please do not park on the dam.
- Please do not enter the water at the dam.
- Please don’t climb on the rocks at the bottom of the dam or enter dangerous areas.
- Please do not dig in the park as no caches are buried.
- Please respect the property and Leave No Trace (Yes-- we said this twice).
Thank you for being respectful of this beautiful park!
The Series
Do you love mystery caches? Do you love D/T (Difficulty/Terrain) ratings? if so, we have a GREAT series for you!!!
The Jackson County Agritourism Geo-Trail 81 series (JCAT-81) has been placed for YOU! We do have to fess up that the series isn’t actually in Jackson County, but it’s a stone’s throw away and an awesome set of caches. If you complete all 81, you will have completed an entire D/T grid. Total fizzy awesomeness!
The majority of the caches are hidden in Sandy Creek Park. There is an entrance fee of $2 per person to enter. Current park hours are Tuesday to Sunday, 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, closed on Mondays. (Note: Hours can change-- please check with the park before making your trip plans)
The caches are hidden in a variety of containers and styles. The puzzles will help build your puzzle-solving skills. Be on the lookout for some JCAT-81 Puzzle-Solving events where we will help you solve some of the tougher ones.
This series is a collaborative effort of “The Puzzle Posse”! The Puzzle Posse consists of Bragger407, GeoMonkeyTiger!, LaFavorite Cacher, and poeanne.
This Cache
This cache is rated a 3.5/2.0. A short bit off the trail, watch out for thorns, poisonous plants, and ticks!!
This Puzzle
(This puzzle brought to you by GeoMonkeyTiger!)
The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates!
Eggs or Chickens? Which came first? Many think you could not grow chickens first, but could it be another theory?
“It likely could come down to ovals”, says famous Canadian Chicken Authority (CCA), Hans Grubor. Expanding on an Albanian case –via careful barnyard simulations in laboratory conditions, certain carbon atoms curiously could exhibit extraordinary changes to mirror ovarian oval forms.
Echoing Canadian Grubor, Edward Chilton can confirm this theory. Carbon atoms can be coaxed into clear round forms, which can then morph into familiar oval “cocoons”. Once this “egg” is coaxed into form, it is not but a small jump to our familiar form of today.
But are conflicting ideas in circulation? Not surprisingly – yes! Can a chick be born without its familiar cover? There many who posit that It is!
Three Columbian scientists (Ruiz, Smith, and Davison) can consistently push for a wildly radical change in thought. Carbon, cocoons – they do NOT consider these important. Contrary, many think additional study is of warrant.
Instead, a concentration of colloids in creation of carbon crystals could push shell creation first. Thus follows that it must be eggs first!!
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