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Current Entry: Geocache Mythology
Since Winter Camp XL, the Geocache activity has been a testament to Alan Wilson's coding skill and electronic abilities. At Winter Camp XLIV, albeit traditionally unconventional, these black wooden boxes were used in our Mythology theme: To find and retrieve lost artifacts of Winter Camp past that have been to (almost) every Winter Camp to date.
The two teams, which were split up by odd and even birthdays, were then tasked to come up with a story that explained the background and historical significance of those two items. The items in question for this geocache were a Pet Evaporated Milk can opener and a clock about as old as time itself. Migisi Opawgan Chapter members, being the creative souls that they are, came up with compelling back stories as to what these deities were, and how they came to be significant to Winter Camp history itself.
The first story described the significance of the evaporated milk opener in the creation of Winter Camp, as told by Gwen Pratt. The story speaks on how a lad with curly hair, rather similar to Steve Donohue, was struck into history with a can opener provided by a higher power that gave him the ability to travel throughout time, perfecting his creation of the Order of the Arrow. The story include many time traveling shenanigans including falling from 5 tads above Beaver Creek, to his being worshipped as a deity known as the "Great Curly One" to the formation of the Mi-Gi-Si O-Paw-Gan Lodge.
The second story described a mysterious clock that forebodes a terrible ending. Self-proclaimed Doom speaker Matthew Grimble states that such a clock had been created to foretell the end by the two titans whom had been locked in a eternal struggle with one another. These two eternal figures, dubbed the "One-Armed" and the "Horned" are prophesized to start the end of the world that would be signified by the stopping of the clock. Ominously the Clock made its final tick shortly after being presented. (CA)