GC1EVFY Traditional Cache Sciuridae 2 - Woodchuckles
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular Regular | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 2 out of 5
By: Gertrude @ | Hide Date: 08/02/2008 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 19.003 W106° 01.815 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Dogs  Recommended for kids  Takes less than an hour  Bicycles  Motorcycles  Off-road vehicles 
Well- what can I say- we all go through periods in our life where we want to create our own identity (early adolescence, anyone?)

There is a chapter in my family story when we were unhappy being called “hogs” as some thought it was too degrading. So we started demanding our rights- one of which was to be called “Woodchuck”. My great great great great great great great grandfather says that it is from our Native American Algonquian name “wuchak”. However, since this sounds like “WoodChuck”, it led to MUCH teasing on the playground, as we do not do anything with wood or chucking. We’ve tried to grow from the experience and if anyone does insist on teasing us, we are taught to just laugh it off.
Let me tell you, if you ever meet a groundhog- please be polite and do not ask us the most insulting question you could ever ask…. “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?”

As all you will get in response is the sound of us laughing and chuckling.


I dressed up for Halloween one year as a woodchuck (see my pic?)

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6 Logs: Found it 6  

Found it 07/02/2019 By dougbell
Wish I would have had another container, this one was getting pretty brittle and leaking.

Found it 07/16/2017 By jsarche
I stopped and found this one fairly quickly after a great solo climb up Mt. Silverheels. Thanks for the cache!

Found it 07/24/2016 By estes01
Seriously...how much wood does a woodchuck chuck if it could chuck wood!? And what the hell is a woodchuck anyway? And I thought a Sciuridae was a squirrel and your name is Gertrude groundhog. I am so confused! At any rate, I immediately zeroed in on your cache, so I figure I'm related to some kind of woodchuck. I got my teeth taking care of.

Found it 07/24/2016 By ernie66
Nice break by the side of the road on the way down from climbing Mt. Silverheels. TFTC!

Found it 06/19/2016 By jcwewright
Last find of the day. The container is getting brittle and wet inside. We would have replaced but didn't have one with us.

Found it 08/23/2015 By Ground Fox
Visiting a friend in the area and doing some local caches close to his house thanks for placing. TFTC. Very nice park hard to get use to high altitude.