🏆 EVERY GEOCACHER’S AN FTF! 🏆

THIS GEOCACHE IS NOT AT THE POSTED COORDINATES. YOU MUST ANSWER STAGE ONE TO FIND THE FINAL COORDS WHICH YOU CAN DO BEFORE YOU LEAVE. see below.  Congratulations to FTF hunter Cummins6061 for being the FTF of the FTFs. Great work! 

Every cacher who finds this cache CAN claim FTF honors! Add it to your FTF list and use it for great status!  As an added bonus, there’s a special collectible souvenir waiting for you! ⬆️

🎉 CONGRATULATIONS… YOU’RE FTF! 🎉

Yep. YOU.

Because technically, this is the First Time YOU Found It! 😜   So forget about who got here first. This cache is all about celebrating YOUR personal FTF!

🎁 A LITTLE FTF TREASURE

There is an un activated FTF souvenir inside for the first FTF of this FTF Geocache's FTF Logs. (grins)

Please DO NOT take the cache container itself.
The container is part of the game — the souvenir is yours!

🕵️‍♀️ A LITTLE STEALTH, PLEASE…

Permission has been granted by the landowner, Cristi Schwinn.  Please be respectful of the property and the surrounding area.
Keep an eye out for muggles and use your best geocaching stealth!

Please park on the nearby road and hike in to the cache from there.

NOW STAGE ONE: YOU MUST ANSWER THIS SIMPLE QUESTION TO GAIN THE FINAL COORDINATES TO FIND, SIGN THE LOG AND CLAIM YOUR FTF PRIZE. 

🏆 Stage 1. The “Official Rules” Question

Normally, FTF means First to Find. But this cache has been approved to have a special rule. What makes YOU eligible to claim FTF?

A. You arrived before everyone else
B. Nobody else has logged the cache
C. It’s your first time finding this cache
D. You bribed the CO with pasties ( traditional rutabaga of course. )

Please submit the capital letter of your answer to the checker... HERE to receive the final GZ coords.

You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.

Stage 2:  And if you find it?

🎉 Congratulations! YOU'RE FTF! 🎉  Because today is the First Time YOU Found It.

🥇 THE OFFICIAL “EVERYONE’S FTF” HOW TO CLAIM RULES

To officially claim this geocache as FTF your log SHOULD:

1. Start with {FTF} including the brackets - followed by the time you logged your find.

2. Include at least three happy faces. 😁😜😈
(Because FTFs are supposed to be fun!)

3. Proudly declare your FIRST TO FIND status!

4. Explain WHY you deserve FTF honors. Be creative!

Some perfectly legitimate examples:

🏆 FTF after the snow melted
🏆 FTF cuz I'm darn good and people like me
🏆 FTF for an out-of-state cacher
🏆 FTF while wearing shorts in the UP
🏆 FTF after getting lost from parking
🏆 FTF because everyone else was too chicken to look
The more ridiculous your reason, the better. 😂  ::--:: I encourage finders to rate and highlight the previouse finders log when you read a funny one.  

📜 THE HISTORY OF THIS HIDE

Every good geocache has a story… and this one has a family tree!

This hide is part of a little geocaching lineage that has traveled quite a distance. The idea came from my Chicago friend Mamasita99andProfjim, who shared their cache GCBVE9Z with me and inspired me to create my own version. But they weren't the original creators either! Their cache was inspired by Acme_Wildcachers, who created GC519P4 in Wisconsin. And that cache traced its roots all the way back to a Florida cache: GC1A5NP. I am proud to add my grecache to this list.  So what started in Florida traveled to Wisconsin, then to Chicago, and now…

⬆️ IT HAS MADE ITS WAY TO THE U.P.! ⬆️

I decided to put my own Yooper spin on the idea and turn it into a two-stage mystery that you can solve from the comfort of home before ever heading to GZ.

So...  you're not just finding a cache… You're becoming part of an exclusive FTF Geocache family — a geocaching bloodline passed from cacher to cacher, hide to hide, and adventure to adventure.