by Sweet T47 (owner of cache)
N 35° 27.280 W 097° 20.176
UTM: 14S E 650980 N 3924737
SS 0.9mi from your home coordinates
"I blinked and then there was a new little park at this location. What is a park without a cache so here for your summertime pleasure is an easy one.
You are looking for a plactic jug covered with ammo tape. Less than 100 ft. from car to cache."
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i had signed us all up as a family and creativly came up with the ID we could all use to GEOCACHE with (CraMicDan) and went to the page on GEOCACHING.com where you look for local caches via your zipcode.
and came up with a list of several within 100 miles of us (57 pages worth) all starting with the closest (within a mile) of us.
the first was one at a small park: OPTIMIST PARK
took the cordinantes, and clicked the map to get an idea of WHERE this park was located, as we had never been to it before.
we were (and are) at a slight disacvantage because were going on ESTMATED locations for these caches, as we currently DO NOT own a GPS device.
so we knew it was going to be a hot pr miss to find this thing.
hints on the page were:
By the base of a small tree.
Follow the trail in.
we were looking for a "JUG" coverd in "AMMO/CAMMO" tape.
but reading other cachers who have already found the cache, it was unknown weather there was still a "trail" to be discoverd to follow.
we looked by every base of every small tree that was there in the park, then we went and looked at the surrounding areas in the brush and thickets and wooded areas, to even find a small trail in the very back upper left hand corner that led to a small opening...it seemed PERFECT for a cache to be hidden.
we were unsucessfull in the attempt to locate the cache at this small park.
but we DID find something of interest to us all as a family...some small field mice!!
we cought 2 of them, a black one and a spotted one...we saw there were 2 adults and another small field mouse, but we were unable to catch them...
i sent an email to to owner of this cache, explaining the lack of ability to locate the cache, they said they would check on it and get back to me.
it apeears to be tick season as well, one member of the party was covered in them, i luckily only had 1 on my entire body, but then i DIDNT go deep INTO any wooded areas either.
hints:
close to car
close to park area
within trees & brush
hiding in the woods
2 ways to get to it?
trail obvious (wasnt to us)
back in trees
short walk into area
west of cache: clearing trees and brush
off "beaten path"
under brush
into the woods
openess
overgrown area
i am now more than ever seriously interested in finding THIS cache! its almost a quest to me to locate it. just to see WHATS in it, and have it logged onto the GEOCHACHING.com account as a legitimate find.
upon searching other areas from the list i noted there was ANOTHER OPTIMIST park (found it odd that there would be 2 of the same named park in the same area), roads didnt match for the locations of either caches, and the other one has 2 caches to find around it..
for those NEW to geocaching, be warned: ALWAYS ASSUME TO WEAR CLOTHING THAT WILL KEEP YOU SAFGE AND OUT OF HARMS WAY...in the oklahoma area, wear covering when in the woods, and a cap, long socks, pants, and alot of MOSQUITO & TICK REPELANT OFF SPRAY!!!!
CraMicDan
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