Everything You Know Is Wrong
The Firesign Theatre proves there is intelligent life on
other planets.
If there were only intelligent life around the caches placement.
To hear a little
bit of "Everything You Know Is Wrong"
copy and paste the following URL into the address bar of your browser:
http://montywolf.tripod.com/cgi-bin/sounds/everything.mp3
Sorry, Tripod won't allow remote downloads from their site via links.
CACHE NOTES
When I started tossing around possible
locations for the various caches that now make up this series, this location
took very little thought. After driving around for a couple of minutes,
there was no question where I was going to hide it. Don't think too hard
on it!
CACHE NOTES
The coordinates listed on the top of the
cache page is not the actual location of the cache.
This one is off the beaten track. I've
hidden the 4 or 5 Crazy Guys cache where I did for a couple of reasons:
1) It's my belief that caches beget caches. So, take an ammo can with you
and give me a reason to head out there.
2) The area needs a good cache since there are none presently.
3) I the final cache in this series deserved to hide in an area that is not
frequented by many adventurers.
You'll want to take the entire day to go
after this one because of ingress and egress. I suggest coming in from the
south as the view near the end is quite nice. However, you can do just as
well be going in from the north. There is also a road to come in from the
east. The trip will take you on a road that you would not want to bring
your Jaguar XK8 on, but any high clearance vehicle can handle the trip.
During the winter you may need 4 wheel drive in the high country. The road
out, or in depending on your method of approach will take you through a historic
mining district.
This is one in a series of caches based on
recordings by the Firesign Theatre.
There are 17 caches in all.
- 16 of them carry the clues that will lead you to “The
Firesign Theatre: 4 or 5 Crazy Guys”
- 15 of the 16 will have letters that need to be
converted to numbers
- 1 of the 16 will tell you how to convert the letters
into numbers
- You must find all 16 caches to find “The Firesign
Theatre: 4 or 5 Crazy Guys”
- You will need to be at least 5’7” to reach one of
the caches.
- The 15 “clue caches” are in Altoid’s Stip tins.
They contain logs and a letter written on the bottom. DO
NOT FORGET TO GET THE CODE!!
- The 16th cache is the “code-breaker
cache.” This one is an AOL CD tin with a web site
extension written on the base and lid. The web site is: http://montywolf.tripod.com
The extension will look like /website.extension
- The final leg of this series, “The Firesign Theatre:
4 or 5 Crazy Guys,” is in an ammo can.
I’m not telling you which cache is the AOL tin and
which caches are in the Altoids Strip tins as it would be rather easy to figure
out the location of “The Firesign Theatre: 4 or 5 Crazy Guys.” My
advice: Think Altoids Strip tins and don’t be surprised if you find an AOL
tin.
If you are traveling through the area don’t worry.
You can work these caches individually without the fear of “missing
something.”
The Firesign Theatre
The Firesign Theatre have won
three Grammy nominations, two of them for Best Comedy CDs in 1998 and 2001. Both
these works, "Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death" and "The
Bride of Firesign," take place on-the-air, combining a mastery of audio
production with the entertainment techniques of radio's historic "golden
age."
Firesign got its start on the
surprise "underground" hit, "Radio Free Oz" in 1966. Within
a few months, the "Oz" boys landed a record contract with Columbia and
began writing, producing and performing a series of LP's (currently reissued on
CD by laugh.com) that would strike the psychedelic funny bone of a generation.
By the time they sold out Carnegie Hall in 1974, they had gone past cult status
and were entering the language.
Favorite bits from Firesign's
1970 radio series were collected on the best-selling LP (later CD), "Dear
Friends." Collectors have scoured eBay for rare copies of the later
"Let's Eat!" series and many other unreleased radio shows and
broadcast performances. Long-time NPR listeners may remember Firesign's
unconventional "Campoon Chronicles" coverage of the 1980 Presidential
election for "Morning Edition."
The quartet may be seen
performing some of their classic sketches, including "Nick Danger" and
"High School Madness," on the recent Rhino DVD, "Weirdly
Cool." Some fifteen CDs, collecting their work from 1967 to 2001, are
currently in print, several of them on labels from Australia and the U.K.
You can learn more about the
Firesign Theatre at www.firesigntheatre.com.