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<title>Amethyst and Jedi Mind Tricks Caches</title><biblioid class="uri">http://norman.walsh.name/2006/04/30/amethystJedi</biblioid>
<volumenum>9</volumenum>
<issuenum>47</issuenum>
<pubdate>2006-04-30T19:38:21-04:00</pubdate>
<date>$Date: 2006-04-30 22:16:00 -0400 (Sun, 30 Apr 2006) $</date>
<author>
      <personname>
<firstname>Norman</firstname>
	<surname>Walsh</surname>
</personname>
    </author>
<copyright>
      <year>2006</year>
      <holder>Norman Walsh</holder>
    </copyright>
<abstract>
<para>What a nice way to spend a pleasant spring afternoon: walking
along Amethyst Brook.
</para>
</abstract>
<dc:subject rdf:resource="http://norman.walsh.name/knows/taxonomy#Geocaching"/>
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<para xml:id="p1">Last year,
<link xlink:href="/2005/06/13/amethystbrook">I was defeated</link> by
<link xlink:href="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=81f06fdc-816c-4cbd-a84d-ad81a3574e6a">Jedi Mind Tricks Cache</link>, but today
I got it. Points to
<personname>
      <firstname>Clan</firstname>
<surname>Delaney</surname>
    </personname> for cleverness.</para>

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<para xml:id="p2">In between the two stages of the Jedi multi-cache, I strolled
a little further along the brook to pick up
<link xlink:href="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=3fee8823-f698-4f52-9423-b2bf14ee0bec">Amethyst Cache</link>. </para>

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<para xml:id="p3">Not hard, but it's a good thing I don't have vertigo. Enough
said. Here's my track:</para>

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<para xml:id="p4">And a random photo of the brook.</para>

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<para xml:id="p5">Someone's taken up stone stacking in a big way, I've seen a fair
bit of it around recently.</para>

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