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| A multi-cache trip including a multi-virtual cache in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. | Physical caches are not allowed on National Parks / Refuges etc... but these are virtual caches - ghost caches | A virtual is not really there.. you have to find out something about the area (like what is on top of this mountain that doesn't belong there) |
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| That is the actual question for this cache - This is Little Baldy and we have to climb it to find the answer. | Something this fat guy is considering... won't he ever learn? | Oh crap! That's a lot of climbing! |
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| But with the aid of trusty SpongeBob stick, he'll make it! | Dave already on top.... Showoff! | Finally ddvdude gets up here! |
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| The next cache is that way!! | Dave pointing out the answer... rebar steel at 5 locations holding who knows what up here long ago! | The next cache is a multi - go to one and find out where to go from there until you find the final spot. |
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| Lots of flowers at this time of year | We're in a drought... this is lost lake... it is almost gone!! | Just 3 weeks later though we had a 6 inch rain over the refuge... all lakes were flowing over the dam after that! |
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| And this lake needed it! Used to tube fish here... now you can walk across it! | Here's a cache... worlds largest picnic table it states. | So we get our pictures as proof... another find! |
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| State Tree is budding - Redbud | Water is way below the overflow at the dam. | Needed the date on this plaque and a survey marker for the answer to this cache. |
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| Date on the rock... wow 1926 | Duhhh...it's on the monument | And here is the beat up survey marker. |
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| It was a way up there! | Finally coming to the end of the multi ... | What in the world was this used for? |
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| Calvery from the US Army would station here looking for indians that were sneaking off the reservation. | That's the way to the next cache! | Dave and his walking stick! We did a LOT of walking this day!! |
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| Another survey marker in the middle of no-where! | Advertisment for geocaching | |
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| Found what we think is a dead buffalo... bones everywhere | ddvdude was looking if there was any extra meat on the bones...he's always hungry! | Barrel Catcus |
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| Trying to get up Eagle Mountain for a cache on the top... | Very very rugged... | We had to give up on this one...no path to the top! |
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| Almost stepped on this guy - a Copperhead - very venomous! | These are scarey snakes... no warning like rattlers... just boom... you're bit and they are neurotoxin... not hemotoxin like rattlers! | Pennington Mine Shaft |
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| We used to do bat counts here many years ago | It was cool air near the entrance | The pose to send for credit for the cache |
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| D and his stick | The mine was gated to protect the bats inside... someone came by and smashed the bats to the roof with a flat stick many years ago. | Thus... no one is allowed back in anymore. |
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| Looking beyond the gate! | On the way back to the car we found another skeleton | This one had the skull and it was impressive |
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| Against the law to take it off the refuge or we would have tried!! | Put that up on your wall Dave! | Ahhh!! transformation!! |
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| Nighty night! | Did 5 today - Little Baldy, Biggest campsite table in OKLA, Lost Lake, Frence Summit (multi), & Pennington Mine | |
