Description: This Cache is placed as part of the 2025 Taconic Region Geocaching Challenge. The NYS Parks Saratoga-Capital Region and the Central Region will be hosting a similar challenge. Find 45 challenge caches in the Taconic Region and stamp your passport to earn a trackable geo-coin. Ten caches found in the Sara-Cap, Central, or Thousand Island Region Challenge can be used toward the Taconic Challenge. This cache contains a unique stamp which must stay with the cache. Use this stamp to mark your passport. This stamp is NOT a trade item.
Please visit the Taconic Region webpage to print your passport.
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About this Cache: This is a field puzzle cache. You must use the clues and tools provided to determine the combination to the lock and access the logbook and stamp.
Angus MacGyver has returned! He was here at the end of April, but then was called away for a secret mission (so secret he couldn't even tell the Taconic State Parks people that he left!). Or maybe he was so traumatized by his last mission that he buried himself (with the help of a local critter) under a mound of dirt until he could recouperate. Regardless, he is here and ready to be found.
To fix something without benefit of tools or a manual is call “to MacGyver a solution”, after the television show in which Richard Dean Anderson disarmed nuclear bombs with paper clips. You will have to do your best MacGyver impersonation to determine what items will help you find the combination to the lock.
You are looking for an ammo can along the orange DT trail.