Note: As of 8-18-2020, Henry Coe State Park is closed because of the SCU Lightning Fire Complex. Some caches may have been destroyed. As the new owner of this series, I will attempt to restore the entire series sometime after the park opens, likely in the spring of 2021.
Yeah! It is Geocaching.com’s “31 Days Of Geocaching” celebration! They are encouraging us to get out and cache, enjoy the outdoors. What better way for me to celebrate than a walkabout in one of my favorite parks?! I could not make the Block Party up in Seattle today, so I decided to have a little party of my own. A crowd of geocaches instead of a crowd of geocachers.
To solve this puzzle you will need to visit each of the “31 Days Of Geocaching Day XX” caches. Somewhere on the log of each of these is a clue with a two or three digit number. Visit the 31 celebration caches, collect the clues, and complete the calculations below to find the coordinates for this geocache. Likely you will need multiple days to complete this.
The caches are arranged to take you in roughly a big circle around the Kelly Lake, Coit Lake, and Hoover Lake area of Coe State Park. The 31 are setup to be pretty easy finds, so no major difficulty once you get to them. Getting to them will be a challenge. The full circuit from Hunting Hollow out and around is about 26 miles. I logged only 3400 feet of ascent on the placement hike. Not bad by Coe standards. This is one of the nicest areas in Coe, so get out those hiking boots and give them a work out.
Puzzle solution:
N 37 AB.CDE W 121 FG.HIJ
A = Day19-Day11-Day16
B = Day03-Day05+Day20+Day31
C = Day28-Day02+Day08-Day09-Day26
D = Day10+Day08-Day18
E = Day24-Day08+Day14+Day15-Day21
F = Day30-Day25-Day27
G = Day19-Day07-Day12
H = Day13*Day23-Day22
I = Day02+Day04-Day06+Day17
J = Day01+Day17-Day29
Check Sums:
A+B+C+D+E = 16
F+G+H+I+J = 22
UPDATES ON MISSING CLUES
Day 08 = 10 (Clue missing on logsheet)
Day 14 = 03 (Cache archived after series of DNFs)
Day 21 = 11 (Clue on logbook obscured)