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One of my pasttimes these days is caching - that is using a Global Positioning System receiver (GPSr) to look for
hidden packages - think of it as a kind of electronically-assisted treasure hunt.
Using the handle OHMIKY (for OHio, MIchigan, and KentuckY), I currently have several caches hidden around the Highland County, Ohio area which are listed on geocaching.com as well as one
cache in the Monticello, KY area which is listed on terracaching.com
My Caches:
(I am currently playing with the idea of creating a private cache whose information would be available only on this page - so stay posted)
Caches listed on Geocaching.com:
(you will get better use of this site if you register at no charge)
Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate - GCZZ0D
A puzzle cache based on old computing codes - the listing page presents a standard punchcard such as crusty hackers of the sixties and seventies will find familiar - in case you are too young to know, or your memory malfunctions, these were commonly used for utility billing and as a means to enter programs into computers.
Eggs & Bacon - GCZPHC
Another puzzle cache. I suppose there are people who dislike puzzles as much as I dislike micros. So be it. This one has a treatise about the coloration of bird's eggs and contains a concealed (though not well-hidden) message regarding the actual location of the cache.
OHMIKY's Day of the Bifids- GCZ2AX
This puzzle cache is based on a difficult cipher - which is more easily solved if you can find the keyword, the method in which the table is constructed and the period into which the plaintext was divided. Sufficient information is on the original version of the page for someone fairly familiar with cryptanalysis to solve it. After first find and as time passes, more clues will be added and the difficulty lessened. Check out my page about the bifid cipher to learn more.
OHMIKY's Scarabaeus Croceus - GCYPJX
This puzzle cache is also a three-stage multi. All stages are in Paint Creek State Park (Ohio). The puzzle is based on a simple substition cipher.
Trilliaceae Abundans (GCWBH7)
This is a 'regular' cache, that is it is straightforward and can be found directly using the given coordinates: N 39° 11.502' W 083° 31.477'
Do We Know Dewey? (GCWKMA)
This is a puzzle cache - that is you will need to solve a puzzle in order to find the cache. This one has a very simple set of puzzles, and should be very easy to find once you have correctly solved the puzzles.
Stegaflage (GCWDEM)
Another, more difficult puzzle cache. Solving this puzzle definitely requires the use of a computer and probably the use of the internet.
Elementary (GCWC8Z)
This puzzle is of medium difficulty and involves deciphering a message. Depending on your reading experiences, this may prove to be a walk in the park.
Primary Source (GCY6WB)
This is a puzzle with only a couple of hidden clues.
Cache listed on terracaching.com:
Danny's Dilemma (TC7YF)
A 'regular' cache at N 36° 48.101' W 084° 52.761' which requires a bit of bushwhacking to reach.
My Travel Bugs
A travel bug is a trackable item that is placed in geocaches for other cachers to find and move to another cache. In some cases, the
travel bug will have a stated mission such as visiting a particular place or having its photo taken in certain settings. Trackable
items are a kind of proxy that can travel to places, meet people and do things on behalf of their owner. Travel bugs
are only one kind of trackable item - but they are the only kind I currently have travelling for me.
OHMIKY's Travelling MiniCache (TB11VQR)
This travel bug is a small cache contained in an altoids tin. Its mission is to travel from cache to cache and hand to hand as a sort of bonus cache.
Gorilla My Dreams (TB14WFF)
This travel bug is a plastic gorilla toy whose stated mission is to visit others of his kind - that is to have his photo taken in zoos. You can see his picture in the bottom photo to the right.
Chicken Little the Little Chicken (TB11976)
A toy chicken (pictured in the second photo from the top on the right side of this page) with no particular stated goal but to travel from cache to cache.
Edgar Poe's Gold Bug (TB119VH)
Originally placed in my OHMIKY's Scarabaeus Croceus, the mission of this travel bug (pictured third photo from the top on the right side of this page) is to visit the grave of Edgar Poe and then to travel to Sullivan's Island, SC - the setting of Edgar Poe's story, "The Gold Bug."
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