This multicache will involve a short hike of about a mile round trip on the Harriskat Trail, starting from the Harris Center. Please park at the suggested parking coordinates. From the trailhead kiosk, follow the white blazes down a short hill, across a road (not busy but leash pets as required on Harris Center trails and watch your kids), across a tiny brook on stones, then uphill with the white blazes.
There is no cache hidden at the posted coordinates. There are three stages including the posted coordinates, which will lead you to meet these magical creatures, carved by wood carver Jack McWhorter. At each of the intermediate stages, you will have to answer a two-choice question which will lead you to the following stage. Please just observe these creatures and don't try to handle them; they are fragile.
The cache is a fairly large "small" container. There is an unactivated geocoin for a FTF prize (and no doubt this time of year for putting up with the mosquitoes which are now out). Bring bug spray during the summer months.
Stage 1, Posted Coordinates:
If you see a serpent or a spotted salamander, go to N42 58.670 W072 01.610. But if there is a moose, go to N42 58.690 W072 01.502.
Stage 2:
If you see a heron, go to N42 58.660 W072 01.502. If it is an owl, go to N42 58.661 W072 01.616.
Stage 3:
If a hippogriff is here, go to N42 58.645 W072 01.775. Otherwise, go to N42 58.649 W072 01.408.
I have permission from the Harris Center to hide caches on the land they manage, and have been doing it for a number of years.