This afternoon I went back to verify the info I had gotten for stage 1 of Dog Years. I had made a mistake in one digit. Off to stage 2, which I found this time. Not sure the hint helped though. Stage three was pretty easy to find, too. I didn’t find stage 4 because it was right in the middle of playground equipment and a lot of kids and parents were out today.
On the way to one of the stages, I stopped and grabbed A Matter of “Defence”. This is a walkup. It’s a birdhouse hung on a fence in a building parking lot. The birdhouse is painted with the geocaching logo. The whole front pulls down to reveal the contents.
Later in the afternoon I hooked up with Dan at Annealed Ovum. All three of us looked for quite a while. Janet finally found it. Actually, she didn’t see it. She drug her hand over the rocks and one of them made a funny, hollow sound. I was specifically looking for something like that, but completely overlooked it.
From there we went to Growl, but even though I knew the fairly precise location, we got a little frustrated because we couldn’t find it. Dan finally pulled on something and it turned out to be the cache. It’s a nano cache magnetically attached to a screw in a redwood tree, and the nano is covered with redwood bark. It fits completely. The eye never sees anything that looks out of order. Just as Dan found it, the neighbor across the street came out to see what we were doing (we were right in front of the living room window). We explained geocaching and he was cool with it.
Since Dan had asked David Y to run a program on his PC to crack The Big Picture, he had the coordinates, and a clue. Dan did the research to know about a steganography program called F5. He asked David to run it (which he did, although he claimed he had to correct a bug in it first). Dan also gave him the password–labyrinth. It was a quick find, accomplished even with several muggles around. Magnetic, under a garbage can, off of Mines Road north of First Street.
Finally, we all went out to Frick N’ End, where this time I walked right up and saw it. I’m sure it was more visible than it had been in the past.
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