Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Maples Mystery Cache by The-Stuntman (3/1) (Archived) N49° 57.704  W97° 10.758 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 630584  N 5535965 Use waypoint: GCM316 Size: Small    Hidden on 11/16/2004 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:             I decided for my second cache, rather than just go find it,that I make you put your thinking caps on. This ones not about finding it first, it's about who gets me the correct answer first. Before you log this cache as "found" YOU MUST E-MAIL ME with the correct name of the " MYSTERY ITEM ". PLEASE DO NOT write the answer in the log. Once It has been verified you can log it as found. Feel free to sign and date the log when you arrive. Please use the honor system. Original contents are: Logbook + pencil and the mystery item no FTF at this time

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3/17/2007 by Kabuthunk
March 16, 2007:

And now we let the pondering begin. And ponder I shall.

I looked at the cache description and saw that it wasn't a 'puzzle' cache in that I needed to solve a puzzle to FIND it, but to LOG it. Hey, that I can live with quite easily .

So yeah... I wandered over the to the cache today. Quite nice camo you have on it though. When looking around the first time, I completely missed it. On my second cycle around of looking at things, BAM, there it was. No clue how I managed to miss it the first scan around, but I did .

As for the mystery item... it is indeed a mystery. Actually so is the definition of "item". I'm not sure if some random non-cachers found the cache and took it apart (or maybe just took the object in general and left these), but I found 3 or 4 different undentifiable parts, completely seperate from eachother. Odds are I'll be emailing the cache owner to see if it involves all of them, one of them, or several of them together. However, the unidentifiable bits were as follows (not to describe them in detail, but just to let you know what I found):

1. The blue, flexible thing.
2. The black, hollow thing.
3. The silver, long thing.
4. The white, smooth thing.

I'm not entirely sure if #2 and #3 were supposed to be one part, since the silver thing was inside the black thing, but they weren't connected in any way, and there seemed to be absolutely no way for them to hold together regardless.

Hence... I'm off to go and find out what exactly I'm supposed to identify... after which I'll attempt to go and... well... identify it .

Odds are I'll just edit this cache instead of make another post. However, the date (as listed above) is the "find" date. When edited, I'll post the "identified" date, too.

Left a chainmail ball however. Sorry about that, it was force of habit. Ertyu later on (in the mbgeocaching chat) informed me that trade items might confuse others (as I'm likely sure has happened with the above 4).

Next person who goes after the cache, if you can identify the parts and whatnot, could you maybe put said parts into the logbook bag to separate it from the several other trade items currently in there?

March 17: SUCCESS! The answer I have been seeking has been found! I got a few shoves in the right direction from a few people, but ended up even solving it before several others could offer their help. Thanks to several different sources of information (which I won't get into to avoid spoilers or inadvertant hints), the object in question as been identified .

Although... for the record, searching for seperate components listed way above online (albeit more specific, but same gist) brings up a TON of instructional webpages on "how to make your own scrunchee". Yeah... for the record, can anyway say "dead-end search" .

March 18: Time I actually got to log the cache as found (hence the edit-time shown under this log) since I didn't get a confirmation from Stuntman until now... but I did have it figured out on the 17th .

[This entry was edited by Kabuthunk on Sunday, March 18, 2007 at 8:23:02 PM.]

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The cache is not at ground level.
Please do not take anything apart.