Sand Spring (hybrid letterbox/geocache)

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Hidden On: 08 Feb 2003
Waypoint (Landmark): N01AB6
Open Cache:  Non-commercial use only
Cache type:  Normal
Cache size:   Normal

Difficulty:  (easy)
Terrain:  (easy)

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Comments:
Wheelchair cachers will be able to roll to the exact coordinates, but may have trouble with the final few vertical feet.

Kid Friendly Lunchtime Cache

Poison Ivy Alert! Fun cache to do at night!

Dogs Allowed Bicycles permitted on paths

Less than 500 ft. from car to cache

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The original sand springs are now under the highway, but a pipe carries the springwater out to this location. You may park fairly close, or you may ride your bike along the Katy Trail.

The nearby store has a very nice public restroom!

We especially like to visit this cache site at night: shine your flashlight at the spring's water to look for the many crawdads that live here. If you visit by day, they will all be hidden from sight. There is a curfew from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m.

This trail gets a lot of use, so please be discreet in retrieving the container, and you might take it a little ways away to open it up. Hide it well, and try not to let the many muggles see you doing so.

We added a layer of ziploc bags, since this seems to be more of a hydro cache that we had at first anticipated; should have known it though, since Oklahoma gets most of its annual rainfall in a only a half dozen or so toad-strangling deluges. Be sure to check all the seals to make sure they are zipped up nice and watertight!

The cache is now in zip-loc bags inside a small ammobox. Original contents included the logbook and pencil, a set of watercolors, a watermelon patch, and a number of other "water" type items, including travel bug Pinch.

There is a letterbox here, too. Letterboxing is a sport similar to geocaching that predates global positioning satellites and receivers. Bring a carved rubber stamp to ink up and stamp your design into the letterbox's logbook. Bring your own logbook in which to stamp the letterbox's rubber stamp design. This is one of the first letterboxes in the Tulsa area (we think it is the second one placed here, and the oldest eastern Oklahoma letterbox still in existence.)

Note- we have replaced everything, again. "Third time is a charm" (we hope!) There are LOTS of muggles here, so please be discreet, and hide everything especially well before you leave, please.

Remember there are two containers here. The first one you come to will be the letterbox, and its placement is designed to protect the geocache. Sometimes the water rises pretty high, after a heavy rain, so please seal everything up tight.

Travel Bugs that have been here:
Pinch	Eat Chikin!	Clifford Travel Bug

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Clues:    decode

• Remember, it's also a letterbox... 
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• If this doesn't help, maybe it has been muggled again. 
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10/12/08- I still have this one in my posession. Had to clean up. Replace some items. Contacted Donna. Hope to get back in action this month. A total of 3 boxes found there so far. All of them where in pretty bad shape. All of them are currently out of action until I can get them to Donna. Look for them soon. Will post an update.



So far: Letterbox by Donna
Hybrid Letterbox by Tribe of two
Sands Springs Geocache by Donna


I believe there is still one more there. Possibly an ammo box.

Found this some time ago, but just now logging on this site.

This was our second find, and it was fun. The ammo box was bigger than we thought. Bear found it (he's 9). We took the wind up shoes and left a "Bait" CD (don't let it catch you:)).