After logging Gumball Rally last week, this was the last of Badlands nine Bemis puzzle caches left on my unfound list. I figured it might be easier to find when the snow melts, but after finally "guessing" the right numbers I was anxious to get this one in the books.
At GZ I dug all around a suspect spot but didn't find anything. I extended my search radius and dug and scraped around several other places, but it was not possible to excavate every possible spot. Realizing I might not find this today 😟 one last time I followed my GPSr to zero out, and it took me back to the same place I started at. I scraped and dug at the area inside of the host that I had earlier scraped around, even though there was some thorny vegetation growing out of the frozen ground and debris. I was able to remove a couple small pieces of tree bark and then I saw it, a narrow band of a flat surface (in my favorite color, ammo can green)😎 completely encased in its surroundings. I knew it would take more than sticks and stones to extract it. I had a small hand shovel in the car. As I was walking back to get it I noticed a car parked behind mine, with the lights on. I thought for sure I was busted,💀 but when I told him that it was my car in front of him (in case he was wondering) he said, with a laptop in his lap, that he just pulled in here for a peaceful place to work. Phew! 👍
So I took the shovel and went back to unearth the ammo box, but as I was chopping and digging around the ammo can I poked a big hole right through it!😮 It shattered like glass, and GUESS what...it was a nicely painted Lock & Lock! There was just a log book inside. I knew I had some cache containers in the car, as I was out on a maintenance run today, (except for this one cache.)
So I took the logbook back to the car and signed in. Then I took a medium sized camoed pill bottle, and rolled up the logbook tight enough to just barely fit inside. I went back to GZ and put the pill bottle inside the frozen lidless L&L, and covered it back up with much more tree stuff than was there before, but much easier to find and get to. I'm sorry for smashing the cache. The pill bottle will be fine for now. But you might need a tweezers (or pliers) to get the logbook out.😉