Pictured here are some of the geocachers
in the class for which this cache was designed. The cache tree was
on the right.
This should be a 20-25 minute two-step
multi IF the 1st cache can be found and if the puzzle is figured
out quickly. The 1st cache is chest height to a 6 foot person and
is quite camouflaged. The 2nd cache requires some agility to reach
-- it's over your head a bit. Its lid is latched in place
internally. Instructions for opening it are in the first cache
container. You may find it quite a challenge to figure out. Please
do not hang on it!
As you head down the trail to cache 1,
watch for the little traveled narrow trail on your left that heads
toward the area of the second cache. It'll save you having to tromp
through nettles and so on on your way there.
When you get within 30 feet of cache one,
stand still for minute to let your GPSr zero in on your location.
That will then allow you to know better which direction to walk to
find the microcache. The coords for the 1st container represent a
19 minute average The coords for the 2nd container represent a 10
minute average.
The first cache is a small container
that’s quite camouflaged so keep your eyes peeled. It's about chest
level to a 6 foot person.
The second cache container was made to
house travel bugs but may house swag too. Some of the 5th - 8th
graders in a "Kids in College" course I taught on GPS/Geocaching
own the bugs that started out here.
To begin the explanation of how this mutli
is set up to work you need to understand what an "anagram" is. It
is a word or phrase made by transposing letters of another word or
phrase. E.g. rearranging “geocache” we can get “cage
echo.”]
Inside container #1 you will find an
“anagram” of a common plant’s name and a list of the numerical
order that letters come in the alphabet. For example, A = 1 and B =
2 and so on. To correct a deliberate mistake I made in the latitude
(ONLY) for the second container you will use the numerical position
of the first and last letter of a common plant’s name, add them
together then divide by 100; in other words move the decimal to the
left 2 places.
The plant is one that surrounds the second
cache.
Here is another example of an anagram.
“crab grass” can be rearranged into “grab scars.” The first letter
c in crab and the last letter s correspond to the numbers 3 &
19 in the alphabet. Added together they make 22. Divided by 100 we
get .22. The number YOU come up with added to the decimal minutes
of the incorrect latitude listed in cache #1 will correct that
coord for the final cache. To make the anagram I used this
website.
If you are standing at the first cache and
do a go-to to the second one the distance to the second cache
should be very close to 0.14 miles away. The incorrect coordinate
is for the latitude. The correct coordinate for the longitude,
which is 92 24.363 W.
Please handle the final cache with care!
Instructions about how to open cache two are on the back of the
paper in the first container.