Ash-Cache

Geocaching: Camel  Style By: Ashley Kedzierski ft. Scott Baytala and Yuri Lira

It was a brisk November evening. The clouds in the sky were like zebra stripes as they were lit up by the bright beams of the moon. Ashley and Scott were taking a walk around campus enjoying their night (they were definitely not playing Pokemon). Ashley decided now was the perfect time to find some caches for her social studies class. "Hey Scott?" "Yeah Ash?" he replied. "I need to find these 2 caches for class and they are both around here, do you mind looking with me? It'll be fun I promise!" Ashley said. "Sure but it'll have to be fast because it's getting late and we still need to cook dinner." said Scott. So off they went to find the first cache over by Kivett Hall, Campbell's oldest building. Ashley had found this cache last year but saw that there was comments on the cache that said it was missing or the searcher did not find it. Since she had found it before, she knew it was not easy to find because it wasn't exactly outside of Kivett.



Ashley led Scott to the tree she found the capsule in a year earlier. "It was in this hole!" Ashley frantically stated. After carefully maneuvering through the hole in the tree, Ashley realized the capsule had been taken by a muggle. They were upset by the negative turn out of that cache but were determined to locate the cache by the camel statue.



The duo arrived at the camel. The hint on the cache specifically said "Magnetic (but not on the Camel!)", but Scott, being the genius he is, ran directly to the camel statue and started searching. "Umm Scott? You did read the hint of the page didn't you?" "No. What did it say?" he asked innocently. Ashley then showed him the hint and Scott walked towards the benches to begin searching in the right area. Right as the duo were on the right track, both of their GPS devices started to act out. They began to use clues from other searchers pictures to locate the cache. They noticed that many of the pictures were taken at the last bench nearest to the gas station. They both began to search that area up and down. They even frantically called for the help of Scott's friend to help them search for the cache. Their search turned up empty when they couldn't find the cache after searching for an hour.

However, Ashley was not going to give up that easily. She was determined to located at least one of the geocaches on her list. The next day, she asked a few colleges of hers if they found the cache at the last bench like she had assumed was the actual location. They assure her that it was there, but it would've been really difficult to locate at night since the container was easily concealed by the dark color of the bench. So Ashley grabbed her roommate, Yuri, and the two went hunting for that final cache.

Although Ashley was tired from teaching all morning and sitting through class all day, she was excite about hunting for this cache. "We are looking for a tiny dark colored container on the last bench." Ashley proclaimed to Yuri. Ashley held her fingers about an inch apart to demonstrate to Yuri how tiny the cache really was. "So you mean to tell me that we are looking for something that tiny on a bench that is this big?!?" Yuri yelled. "Exactly! Now let's get started!" said Ashley. They began searching on the last bench. The two quickly discovered the container when Ashley ran her hand under the back park of the seat. "I GOT IT!" exclaimed Ashley. "Awesome job, Ashley! What's in it?" asked Yuri. "I think it's a log to sign." said Ashley. Ashley grabbed a pen from her bag and signed and dated the log. Cache #1 was logged in their books.

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Ashley and Yuri walked back to their apartment with the feeling of accomplishment after finding a cache that was this difficult. Later that evening, Ashley shared her joy with Scott. He was curious to know if he had seen it the night before but mistook it for a bolt of the bench. This isn't the last geocaching adventure for these two wanderers.

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