Our 1st (2nd) Hide

We finally got around to placing our first cache hide. Well, actually, it was our second. You see, the first one, was great!  A multi-staged hide (two different stages), and a riddle and puzzle let to a hidden cache under some rocks by a duck filled pond. BUT, the rules say that it can be no closer than 528 feet to an existing cache to avoid "cache saturation" and ours was denied as it was about 480 feet. So it wasn't approved and we had to remove it.

Needless to say, we were bummed.

So we found another location, and it turned out to be better than our first. So this is really our 1st "approved" hide.

We called it "Welcome To Roseville?" and it was placed at an entrance to Roseville that nobody ever sees, as it's on a dead ended road yet to be developed on the city line. But it's all landscaped, and kept watered and maintained, except to overgrown rose bushes in front of the 'Welcome To Roseville' sign. (click on photo to see it bigger)

We made it a three stage, with a riddle in the middle. At each stage, you get a number that corresponds to a number in a combination lock, that is needed at the end to unlock the cache.

Can you see the first stage in this photo:

How about a close up:

It's on the bottom right of the gate, in a black box. Inside the box is one number to the lock, and coordinates to the next stage. The next stage is attached to a chain:

And the chain is attached to a drain and just hangs down into the drain.

Once you find the chain, there is another number to the combination lock, and coordinates to the final cache. The 3rd number to the combination lock is a riddle that can be answered by counting reflectors nearby.

The final cache is under this big electric pole:

At the base of the pole, there is just enough room to slip an ammo box under there, undetected.

And above is the final cache obviously, outside of its hiding place.

It's been found already - on the 2nd day actually by a "master cacher" who has found over 7000 caches! And he gave us good feedback. Said it was an excellent first hide and in all his finds, he's never seen a stage like our "chain stage". He loved it. Gave two thumbs up!