CTF XII- Oh, Say Can You See...?

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Hidden On: 28 Feb 2005
Waypoint (Landmark): N017E6
Open Cache:  Non-commercial use only
Cache type:  Multi-Part
Cache size:   Normal

Difficulty:  (easy)
Terrain:  (easy)

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All Tulsa Parks are closed to visitors between 11 pm and 5 am. Security does patrol, but please lock your vehicle, and do not leave valuable items visible. This cache was placed with the permission of the Tulsa Parks Department. (The Tulsa Parks Department policy on placing caches in any of their parks is that cachers should contact Donna Horton at 669-6644 or donnahorton@ci.tulsa.ok.us before placing the cache.)

THE GAME: This is a fun game between the cachers of Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma! It was started by Oklahoma geocacher Darkmoon, who hid The Flag in the cache Capture the Flag I, and then challenged the Tulsa cachers to capture it and re-hide it in a new cache created by the finder in Tulsa County. All hides in Oklahoma City must be in Oklahoma County.

THE CACHE: The cache container is a small ammo-box featuring a Darkmoon Stealth Paintjob and contains the logbook and pencil, a bag containing The Flag, and a bag of regular trade items. The Flag should never be placed in any geocache other than the newest of the Capture the Flag caches of Oklahoma and Tulsa Counties. All other trade goods are up for grabs, and it would be great if you would continue the theme of this particular cache by bringing American flag trade items. Once The Flag is gone the ammobox will still contain the logbook and pencil and the bag of trade goods and may be visited as a regular cache. It should be interesting for cachers to find all the locations in the series.

THE SITE: We recommend you park at 5801 South Union Avenue, found at coordinates N36 04.819 W096 00.640. Proceed to the cache coordinates listed above to find the next set of coordinates in this 3-stage multi-cache. Your roundtrip hike of 2/3 of a mile (1 km.) will treat you to a great view of Tulsa, and a good place to sing The Star-Spangled Banner. Your hike will take you through Bales Prairie, a lovely scrap of tallgrass prairie almost lost to development. The wildflowers are at their best in June.

THE HAZARDS: There could be mud if it has been raining or snowing. We recommend closed-toe shoes, and you might want to bring work gloves in case the copperheads are active. There could also be ticks or chiggers if the weather is warm, but we picked a route with very little poison ivy or thorns. During the summer, the prairie features a little wildflower called branching noseburn, which stings like nettles if you brush against it (yes, we do know someone who tried to identify it by odor and got a noseburn!) Be wary of geomuggles on four-wheelers.

Here are all the other caches in this series:

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This cache was placed by two Tulsa Area Geocachers

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This was one of my favorites. Very challenging.