King Cake
Cachers Event
Please join us to
share some King Cake, an old fashioned
picnic, cacher's stories, games with prizes and
more!
This celebration will
take place in the Bonne Carre Spillway on February 4th
starting at 11:00 a.m.
Camping is temporarily
unavailable according to St. Charles Parish Parks & Recreation.
You can use this
link for information about the spillway area and normal
camping regulations. The event will be
located near the boat launch at Airline Drive and the East
Spillway Levee. Here is a phone number for St. Charles Parish
Parks & Recreation (985)783-5090 if you want to talk to parish
officials about camping and this area.
A Bar-B-Que pit or two will
be available, please bring your meat or veggies of choice.
Just find space on the grill, slap it on, and watch it cook.
We will coordinate, by note responses, items like potato salad
(Gator Girl claims to have a killer), baked beans, and other old
fashioned picnic essentials.
There is a great mountain
bike trail near the meeting area, that as a result of a great deal
of work by the New Orleans Metro Area Mountain Bike Organization
(NOMAMBO), is
surprisingly navigable for about 5 miles (loop). The great
force of Hurricane Katrina rendered this trail to a maze of broken
trees and impassable until it was cleared of obstacles. There
are several very
memorable caches
on this trail and in the spillway area.
There is also a waterway that can be used to find some of the
caches if you don't have a mountain bike or inclination to hike the
trail. If you use a bike to traverse the tail, please make
sure that you have a good helmet so that your brains don't get
scrambled. If you plan to use the waterways, please make sure
that you use a life jacket.
There are a few Port-O-Lets
at the site but there is no potable water. Please bring your
own drinks and chairs. We could use a few tables if you have
one.
King Cake Cacher's
CLOO Game
If you care to play the King
Cake Cacher's CLOO Game then
download this Excel file for a scorecard with
instructions.
Instructions: There has been
a murder in the Cacher's Community. There are 3 caches for Suspect,
Weapon, and Place (total of 9 caches). Each cache contains 1 king
cake baby. If the cache reveals the correct CLOO, the baby in the
cache will be gold. The other six babies will be flesh colored.
Your mission is to find one correct suspect, weapon, and place.
Detach your answer from the scorecard and deliver to LACampers by
3:00 p.m. Feb 4th with the correct answer.
You can start before the
event if you wish or there will be copies of the instructions with
coordinates on the day of the event. There will be a drawing
from the cards turned in with the correct answer. Prizes will be
awarded as names are pulled until all prizes have been
awarded. The murder victim and CLOO story line will also be
revealed at that time. This is a temporary CLOO game that
will be dismantled after the 4th so some of the stages are closer
than 528 feet. One stage of the game will remain as a
permanent cache and will be called "I don't Have a Clue".
Good luck with your search.
All characters and events in
this CLOO game are strictly fictional and any semblance to reality
is merely coincidental.
GG's Pocket
Cache
There will be an anonymous
predetermined cacher at the event that will be designated as
"Pocket Cacher". When you greet someone it is perfectly
acceptable to inquire "are you the Pocket Cacher"? The
"Pocket Cacher" will have a log book in his/her pocket. This person
will not readily identify themselves without someone asking nor do
others who have already figured it out reveal the identity of the
"Pocket Cacher". Once you identify the "Pocket Cacher" - you can
sign the log, and log it on the event page to get another 'smiley'
icon. What you are doing is claiming the event TWICE - once for
attending and once for the pocket cache. You MUST log it twice to
receive credit!!!
Please be respectful of the
"Pocket Cacher", whomever that person may be. This has been
rumored to involve a "grope and hope", just keep in mind that this
person could be someone's son or daughter! AND, for extra
credit - all those who correctly identify the mystery cacher will
be able to view Gator Girl's new FINLAND geocoin.
King
Cake Cachers CLOO Game Story
If you
have successfully completed the King Cake Cachers CLOO Game then
you know that Mausdad used the Laserlock 2006X3 in
Lafreniere
Park
to
commit the murder. The part that you
don’t know is that the victim was poor 30/90. Here’s how the story
goes:
For
years 30/90 has diligently worked on his caching
skills. He has been continuously
frustrated in attempting to find Mausdad’s caches as
evidenced by the following logs from 30/90’s actual finds and
attempts at Lafreniere Park.
DUCK
VANE (2.5
Star)
April 27,
2004by
30/90(182 found)
Another lunch time find with bloodhound. One
well hidden puppy.....SL. TNX.
30/90
GROWING OLDER, BUT NOT UP!
(3.5
Star)
November
6, 2004 by
30/90(182 found)
Without question, the dirtiest, foulest,
vilest, cruelest, most heartless, mean spirited, coarsest,
abrasive, ill intended, erstwhile, inconsiderate, aggravating,
annoying and elusive one I've come upon in a while. That said, I
wish I was so creative. I ran into one of Maus' elementary school
teachers the other day, and she told me that he was often guilty of
"wasting time and annoying others." Finders of this one will be
able to relate.
"Now, I'm going to
strangle you."
May 15,
2005by
30/90(182 found)
OOOH, Maus!! Does that mean you're gonna
finally put out the cache? If you do, why not drop by "Sheltered
Life" and "3 Blind Mauser" and drop off a couple at those,
too!!
I think you're starting to
get the hang'a this game!!
30/90
Gimme
Shelter (2.5
Star)
January
22, 2005by
30/90(182
found)
Well, get out of the way,
maus........I don't want to hit you with the towel I'm fixin' to
throw in on this one. I think I've put in more visits to this one
than any cache I've ever chased. Went again this week
..............twice......both times, I couldn't have made the grab
if I knew where the darn thing was. I think there are muggles there
in the middle of the night. I thought Regatta was going to be
muggle intense, but this one puts Regatta to
shame.
I'm
done.........
3 BLIND
MAUSER (4
star)
June 5,
2005by
30/90(182
found)
I've
been chasing this one since October of last year. I've cussed Maus
on this one more times than I can count. But, with the exception of
Gimme Shelter, I've gotten'em all in Lafreniere.
To me, this one totally
dispells the notion that full size caches enhance the fun of the
hunt. "Impishly evil!"
DAVE
(2
Star)
June 5,
2005by
30/90(182 found)
Maus said to make this one and 3-Blind Mauser
a "two-fer." So I did. It's so much easier to find'em when he
actually puts'em out!!
Seriously, this one ranks
right up there with the best Maus has ever put out. This one has it
all.......Great hide, great clue, really creative container, really
creative camo, great coords and I have a feeling it's gonna be very
permanent. It's caches like these that really make me feel like a
total amateur.
Well done, Maus. I can
think of none better that you've done. I hope you put this one on
the La. Lagniappe Board. SL. TFTH.
NUTRIA
EGG?(2
Star)
July 28,
2005by
mausdad (459 found)
yep it's out--i am HOWEVER
in the process of communicating with the .com site about a new and
separate rating system--think it COULD be in the interest of the
entire caching community!! a "special" 30/90 "cfs" rating system
where automatically anything above a one star would be rated a 5
and designated as such just for his
benefit!
[
view this log on a
separate page]
July 28,
2005by
30/90 (182 found)
Did you put it out
yet?
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So you’re wondering, how
did it happen that Mausdad could do such a dastardly thing to a
great friend like 30/90? Detective
Heidi Cachere wondered the same thing when she started her
investigation into this great mystery.
Here’s how the series of events led to 30/90’s demise according to
the investigation results of Det. Cachere:
Most Louisiana Geocachers
know of the legendary discovery one fateful day by 30/90 as he was
surfing the internet. There it was the
latest in GPSr technology the Laserlock! It promised to bring the accuracy of Geocaching to
new levels and 30/90 was the first to discover this great
breakthrough in technology. The Beta
version was anything but a breakthrough as it was met with many
frustrations of vaporizing caches, bringing out the National Guard
to investigate mysterious flickering lights of the night, fires in
the most remote areas, power outages...
But finally there it
was…the release of the Laserlock 2006X3! This version of the machine brought 30/90 to new
heights in caching skills. Suddenly the
4 or even 5 star caches that had eluded 30/90 for so many years
were now not only in sight but were becoming a remarkable certainty
for him. News spread far and wide about
30/90s new prowess in finding the most difficult of
caches.
Then
one fateful day 30/90 decided to make it a grand slam
of Lafreniere
Park
and find that most
elusive cache hidden by Mausdad.
As he set out to make the grab of “Gimme Shelter” he was most
confident in finally closing out this major frustration in
his life.
Well I’m sure you’re
wondering, where does Mausdad come back into the
picture? Well most cachers would be
surprised to find out that Mausdad was anything but happy over
30/90’s sudden prowess of finding his most elusive 4 and 5 star
caches. In actuality he was insanely jealous and had for years
gloated over the fact that he had so frustrated
30/90.
…So
back to this fateful day in Lafreniere
Park. As 30/90 so carefully set up his Laserlock
2006X3 and got all three angles locked in precisely, there it
was…the laser was zeroed in on the cache and displayed the
container as clear as day. Well …
30/90 didn’t realize that he was being stalked by
Mausdad. As he made his approach
to finally close out this most elusive crown jewel, Mausdad
flipped the switch on the LL to “Super Search” despite the
clear warnings about the laser intensity. Then suddenly a Gaussian transverse
irradiance profile of 25,000 units suddenly vaporized poor
30/90. Sadly, 30/90 had mastered
Geocaching’s “Decryption Key Language” and could be heard
screaming, “ab Znhf ab”.
Etched on 30/90’s head
stone.
30/90 Lost in his own backyard!
C.F.S.
Epilogue:
All of the area’s greatest of cachers were devastated by the
news of 30/90’s demise. Since
30/90 had been “vaporized” into the most elemental molecules,
there was no body to display.
Since there was no body to display there could be no
funeral. At last the group met to
memorialize 30/90 and Gatorgrl could be heard as she fought
back the tears: “I guess it’s just as well that he was
vaporized, he probably would have gotten lost on the way to
his own funeral”.