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The baddest of all Badd things has happened. Badd Companie has a birthday, and its a Badd One.
This cache is all about birthdays. I have them, you have them, we all have them, and they add up rather quickly. However, having them beats the alternative.
On this my 29th birthday, (several times over), I put this miserable substitute for a SASo 362 ammo box cache in my favorite park (four caches there) to snag birthday cards. This area has a lot of deer paths to follow to the cache and I saw over ten deer while setting it up. The original contents are birthday and other cards in ziplock bags and the usual log book and stolen pen in a ziplog bag. It also has a first to find prize, a coin from My Favorite Year (it is also the year in the movie of the same name). I found the Gemini Travel Bug under the seat of the geotruck so I am putting it back into circulation. I'll add some more birthday stuff later. If you trade items, please make sure they are birthday related. The cards will stay dry if you put them in the ziplocks. A card for a card is a great trade. Likewise "landmark" birthday napkins, party favors, whistles, noise makers. But no candy, candles, or birthday cakes. Birthday cakes should be left at my house instead.
Also, if you know someone who is having a birthday soon, you could leave him or her a card here and we promise we won't take it (just e-mail them the co-ordinates) As an example of this, early finders of this cache may spot a card to one of the most celebrated cachers of this area thanking him for his assistance in helping me find a difficult cache.
Unlike my other Swanson caches, I wore shorts to set this one up. It has almost no poison ivy. Just a nice grassy walk of less than .25 miles with a lot of seeds stuck in my socks when I tried a shortcut coming back. It does involve a gimmick however. The co-ordinates are not quite right on, so I have made it a reverse projection cache.
Look closely at the co-ordinates: they contain a hint of sorts. (He's not 37, 97, 28 or 42) Now imagine a circle with a diameter equal to my new age (the real one, not 39). The cache should be very close to the circle. As an additional clue, the cache is at a heading approximately my new age from the center of the circle (where 0 is north, 45 is northeast, my new age is a little past there, and 90 is east) but it is in reverse. Standing at the cache, the co-ordinates are that far in that direction. (My first senior moment occurs in setting up a cache, no less).
Even without the projection, you can probably find the cache without too much difficulty. It's not like I am turning 150 (where the cache would be 75 feet from the co-ordinates). The "magic landmark" co-ordinates are too out in the open. OR, ignore all the mumbo-jumbo, stand at the magic co-ordinates look around in a circle and pick out likely spots. It won't take long.
At last, I have replaced the miserable substitute with a genuine Saso 362 approved (but not warrantied) Ammo Box. Amazingly, no one had found it during the miserable substitute phase, BUT AT LEAST THE GRASS HAS BEEN MOWED SO THERE IS NO PROBLEM GETTING THERE. In fact, it reminds me of my backyard, a little tall but not bad. Kind of like a meadow.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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