GC6YVMD A Tale of Two Geocachers
Type: Mystery | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: K Trackers @ | Hide Date: 01/01/2017 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 57.722 W104° 42.848 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
             

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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature .

The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry vis-ŕ-vis the aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution and the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats. The most notable protagonists are Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton. Darnay is a French émigré and former aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, while Carton is a dissipated English barrister who endeavors to redeem his ill-spent life and unrequited love for Darnay's wife. The 45-chapter novel was first published in 31 weekly installments in Dickens' new literary periodical titled All the Year Round.

Since the original publications by Charles Dickens, the novel has been republished in multiple editions as a single work. In addition, the story was adapted to Film at least 10 times (in 1911, 1917, 1922, 1927, 1935, 1958, 1980, 2007, 2011, and 2014), Radio 6 times, Television 6 times, numerous Stage and even a Opera production.

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This is the best of caches, it is the worst of caches,
it is an age of finds, it is an age of DNFs,
it is the epoch of clues, it is the epoch of cluelessness.
A Tale of Two Geocachers depicts the plight of two notable geocachers attempting to recover a container at the posted coordinates to sign a log. Both are driven by their unrequited love for "found it" logs despite being demoralized by DNFs and victimized by the indiscriminate wrath of aristocratic field puzzles. Both cachers will have to work closer together than Darney and Carton did as the cache is intended to be found by two cooperating geocachers. However, it is possible for a single cacher to claim and find and sign the log with increased difficulty. BYOP. The cache is not recommend at night do to its location. Although not placed in downtown Paris, close parking is not available. You will have to find legal parking that will not incur the wrath of the local Sans-culottes. Although being stealthy will be difficult at this location, don't be too brazen lest you draw a bigger crowd than Louis XVI did when he was guillotined.

Good luck and enjoy the hunt.

07/21/2018 By ColoradoSmith
Tftc! A truly evil cache that earns a favorite point

03/24/2018 By K Trackers
Cache is not in need of maintenance, is serviceable, and ready for the next finder. Good luck!

03/24/2018 By Hives
After this morning's event we headed out for a very enjoyable day gathering several of the solved puzzles and letterboxes in this end of town, Also grabbed quite a few traditionals along the way. This one was a real worker. It appears the cache may have been tethered previously but isn't any longer. I was able to coax it to a point where I could access the log for signing. I may need some maintenance? SL. TFTC

11/09/2017 By gampa&gamma
It was relaxing to have a whole slew of muggler traffic and not worry that anyone would be back to steal this cache--ha! We tried this one last evening and decided to save ourselves some time and come back with exactly the tools we wanted. It was colder this morning, so gloves were included in our TOTT, but we made short work of the retrieval----gampa has all the great ideas! Signed log and replaced as found.....well maybe it is in a little different position than we found it ;O) Thanks for a fun, challenging cache!

10/29/2017 By psych01
1st trip to look for this cache was unsuccessful. PAF & rt'd today w/ tools but took way too long to get cache out to sign. Difficulty is under rated, it is easier to PU caches on black diamond ski runs. SL & moved on to easier caches.