A stick is a very good idea....while caching with a friend we got to GZ looked around for a little bit. I saw a hollow tree that had fallen and said check there. He went to the tree and a snake slithered away, my friend is afraid of snakes but he work himself up enough to grab a stick (albeit a small one) stuck it inside the tree and something pulled it out of his hand. While running past me on his way back to the car, he said "Did Not Find"