CTF IX: Turkey Mountain Traditional Geocache
OleKim: This cache has run its course. I'm too far away with no plans to visit Tulsa for a few more weeks and no one seems willing to replace the log. Cache container is in pretty bad shape. Thanks to all those who have found it over the past 3 years.
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This is the ninth installment of the Oklahoma "Capture the Flag" cache series. The travel bug gamepiece, "Oklahoma Geocaching CTF 2010," was released at Fall Fest 2010. It has also recently been spotted at Spring Fling 2012: Wild West in the Wichitas.
The flag was was last retrieved from CTF VIII: Go West Young Man. It now has been placed in this cache in a public use wilderness area in northeastern Oklahoma. The object now is for someone to find the cache, take the flag and transport it west across the dividing line -- W 96° 42' -- to be placed in a new cache on that side of the line. Then it's fair game for someone to go after it and bring it back east across the line.
Anyone can be FTF, but please do not take the flag unless you plan to transport it across the dividing line to the other side of Oklahoma. If you're not interested in the flag, there's also a traveler: China Good Luck Duck.
Oh, and leave the rock in the container, please.
A little historical trivia: The origins of "Capture the Flag" go back hundreds of years, when taking the enemy's flag signaled to soldiers that a battle had ended. During the Civil War, both the Union and Confederacy awarded medals of honor to soldiers who captured enemy flags. It's not exactly known when it became a game, but Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Boy Scouting, included rules for "Flag Raiding" in his "Aids to Scouting" manual in England in 1899. It is one of the games that appeared in the first Boy Scout Handbook published in the U.S. in 1911. Variations of that game continue to be played by youngsters -- and geocachers -- today as "Capture the Flag."
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