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[cheezehead]

Someday, I’m gonna go find this cache, thou I have no clue where it is.
But this made me laugh.

DGDK found 52-Pickup – WWF #13 (Superior Falls) (Traditional Cache) at 7/4/2009

Log Date: 7/4/2009
Picked a great day to do this one. Morning was cool, no flies or skeeters. Didn’t park in the right place, so I scrambled up the first little ridge, and just followed the natural flow of terrain until I got to a spot where I was just 180 feet or so from the cache. The only thing between me and the smiley was a huge ravine. Fortuanately it was only a detour of a hundred feet or so until I was up the other side. It took about 10 minutes of searching before I came up with the smiley.

On the bushwhack back I found some bear scat. I gave it a little nudge with the walking stick and determined that it was pretty fresh. Walked on another 75 feet or so and found the bear about 100 feet up ahead looking like it was trying to decide whether to have me for lunch or not.

My rattled brain tried to come up with what I learned from the Boy Scouts about bear encounters, but after I calmed down a little I remembered that I was never in the Boy Scouts. Then I had to ask (being a Man Vs Wild fan), what would Bear Grylls do? So, I put my arms up in the air, waved them like I just didn’t care, and screamed out “Hey Boo-boo, how about we find ourselves a pic-a-nic basket?” in my best Yogi voice.

Apparently the bear decided that he would probably catch “mad human disease” if he ate me and promptly scampered away.

BEST CACHE EVER!!!!

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Camperfamily3 found 52-Pickup – WWF #44 (Bellile Falls) (Traditional Cache) at 7/5/2009

Log Date: 7/5/2009
Bugs, rocks, hills, water, mud, mosquitos. By far this cache has been our favorite since we began geocaching! Great hide. Great spot. Thanks

Both lil Otter Originals 😀

[gotta run]

From GC172T8 – with our apologies for the bees and the wet map, the latter of which will be remedied in short order…

Well ther’s nothing like a good pirate adventure after a morning at the zoo. This one would turn out to be a great story to be told. Our crew consisted of Mister Greenthumb and Sunshine, Opps5 Mom and the 3E’s (aka Papa, Grandma, daughter Becky and grandkids Emma, Evan and Eric.

The adventure started with the spotting of the sign warning of the bear sighting just 2 weeks ago. As we started the hike we found we had left the combination information at the lake. Luckily 12 year old Emma has a good memory that turned out to be true. We began the hike and played it smart and stayed on the trails even though they often took us further away fron our destination. At the first waypoint we made a quick find and dislodged the container only to find it with some water inside and a soaked map. Pete must have been wise enough to apply some candle wax or other substance to the map as it was still easily readable and we gathered the necessary information. We again stayed on the trail and only entered the woods when we were within 200′ of the prize. At about 20′ off the trail 7 year old Eric stepped on a bee’s nest. A few of them flew up inside the leg of his shorts and stung him on the _ _ _ _ UOCH !!!! If there were any bears in the woods the screaming has now driven them away.

Mister Greenthumb, Evan and Emma resumed the search while Grandma and Mom tried to comfort Eric. Not far into the woods we lost our signal and had to go blind. Remembering the hint we quickly spotted a likely hiding spot about 100′ ahead. It proved to be the right spot and we quickly dug up the treasure chest. Now is it left-right-left or right-left-right? We came up with a way to figure that out which we will not give away. The chest was opened and pirate booty spilled out (it actually did as Evan tipped it over) on the forest floor. We plundered Pete’s fortune and left some worthless pirate treasure for the next foolhardy souls. We also dropped off a Captain Morgan the Pirate TB. As we returned to our vessel we counted heads and were fortunate to leave with all of those who came. Thanks for the great adventure and we will post some pictures to go along with our log.

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