THE GAME: This is a fun game between the cachers of Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma! It was started by Oklahoma geocacher Darkmoon, who hid The Flag in the cache Capture the Flag I, and then challenged the Tulsa cachers to capture it and re-hide it in a new cache created by the finder in Tulsa County. All hides in Oklahoma City must be in Oklahoma County.
Once hidden in Tulsa, those from OKC will track it down and take it back to Oklahoma County, and the game continues. Please name your new cache a sequential name - Capture the Flag II and so on. If you find The Flag here in Tulsa County and do not want to create and maintain the next Capture the Flag cache in Oklahoma County, please leave it for someone else to find. The Flag should never be placed in any geocache other than the newest of the Capture the Flag caches of Oklahoma and Tulsa Counties.
Note: The Flag has already been taken from this cache and went moving back and forth as the game continued. Congratulations, mythreal, on being First To Find, as well as being the ones to Capture the Flag from this cache!
Special thanks goes to wzbt03 for this original idea!
THE CACHE: The cache container is a small ammo-box featuring a Darkmoon Stealth Paintjob and contains the logbook and pencil and a bag of regular trade items. It would be great if you would continue the theme of this particular cache by bringing American flag trade items. Although The Flag is now gone, the ammobox will remain and may be visited as a regular cache. It should be interesting for cachers to find all the locations in the series.
THE SITE: We recommend you park at 5801 South Union Avenue, found at coordinates N36 04.819 W096 00.640. Proceed to the cache coordinates listed above to find the first set of coordinates in this 3-stage multi-cache. Your roundtrip hike of 2/3 of a mile (1 km.) will treat you to a great view of Tulsa, and a good place to sing The Star-Spangled Banner. Your hike will take you through Bales Prairie, a lovely scrap of tallgrass prairie almost lost to development and dumping and ATV trails. The wildflowers are at their best in June.
THE HAZARDS: There could be mud if it has been raining or snowing. We recommend closed-toe shoes, and you might want to bring work gloves in case the copperheads are active. There could also be ticks or chiggers if the weather is warm, but we picked a route with very little poison ivy or thorns. During the summer, the prairie features a little wildflower called branching noseburn, which stings like nettles if you brush against it (yes, we do know someone who tried to identify it by odor and got a noseburn!) Be wary of geomuggles on four-wheelers.
Here are all the other caches in the original series:
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(You may also log this find here, on the Navicache.com website.)