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Pear Head

Supposedly there is a cache at Upper Sioux that, when you complete it, you receive a coin or something similar? Has anyone heard of such a cache? I don't see any references to it on gc.com but have been asked about it.
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andrewmcc · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 979

Jam3s · Geocacher Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 842

GC1DBZK is like that. It is not official but put on by the naturalist.
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bflentje · Geocacher Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 3655

Talking to the ranger a few weeks back, they no longer have that cache. But you can still buy the leftover coins.. which are actually travel tags if I remember right. Either way, they ain't trackable on gc.com.

Pear Head · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:08 pm Post subject:

I knew it wasn't an official cache (or is no longer anyway - I know it doesn't show up as an active cache).

Red_Devil35 · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:50 am Post subject:

loneeagle_24 · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:30 am Post subject:

To all of you that are inquiring about this. It was actually archived to make way for the History challenge cache. The coins were some that the park purchased and were charging $3 for just to get back their money. I think they had like 100 of them if I'm not mistaken. It wasn't intended on making any profit. They just figured that this would be an added incentive cause the cache was Many, Many stages. The coins were even numbered. Not sure how many they would have left of them. I should find out if Terri was going to reactivate that cache. It is not part of the new SP cacheing program. I guess we'll see.
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CharleneMae · Geocacher Joined: 23 Apr 2009 Posts: 44

Yes, last year's History Challenge cache at Upper Sioux was about 6 or 7 stages, took 1.5-2 hrs, and had a punchcard sheet for each of the stages. After completion, besides getting your History card, you also had the opportunity to purchase a serialized coin (1-250 I believe) if you turned in your punchcard. We completed last year's challenge and purchased one of the coins for $3 (at cost). The park ranger thought it would be a fun and unique reward.

This year we returned to do the Wildlife Safari cache and when we arrived at the park, we saw a sign talking about this bonus cache. The ranger said it was pretty much the same thing that was set up for the History Challenge. When we were there in late May, the coins were a different design than last year. She ran out of the 250 previous designs and needed to order some more. I don't know that this cache is listed on geocaching.com.

andrewmcc · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 979

I Emailed Terri to find out what was up. We were together on a Safari cache committee last year.
Here is her reply. It is not an official cache.

Pear Head · Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 6:10 am Post subject:

Thanks!

How does one get started on it if the office is closed?

How much hiking is involved in it?
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loneeagle_24 · Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:55 am Post subject:

Not sure if they have the cards in the lobby or not. They have a big main area at the office that is normally open. I am not sure what the actually waypoint is for the start of it. If you called there before you go I'm sure they would give you the starting location then you would be able to do it on your own.

The cache takes you in about a 1.5-2 mile loop around on some of the trails at the park. Most caches are just a few feet off the trail. They have a punch card that you punch at each cache with some type of animal or leaves and such. This is how they know you got all of the stages. Like has been mentioned before it is 7 or eight stages to the cache. It's best if you park near the first one and walk to them all from there. It will bring you back close to where the first one is at. Good luck!
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King of the Jeff Gordon TB's!
They put that cache WHERE?