GCJDVM The Mountie Always gets his Dragon (Wales) (Multi-cache) in North Wales, United Kingdom created by wildtrekker ... Adopted by Fantasyraider

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A cache by wildtrekker ... Adopted by Fantasyraider Message this owner

Hidden : 5/11/2004

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Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

THE LISTED COORDINATES ARE BOGUS. To find the cache, you've got to turn your attention across the pond and put your thinking Cap on.

We're bringing a little of Canada right here to Wales! This is a two-stage Welsh geocache working in tandem with a two-stage Canadian geocache. To find Stage 1, you must learn a few things about our friends across the pond. To find Stage 2, you must partner with them online.

STAGE ONE

So how much do you know about are Canadian friends and their great country? Well lets find out. You will need to answer these questions to find the coordinates to the first stage cache.

The Quiz
A) The largest city in British Columbia is
1) Victoria
2) Vancouver
3) Whistler
4) Prince George

B) Which of these is NOT found in BC
1) rain forest
2) prairie
3) desert
4) tundra

C) What is the most important industry in BC?
1) lumber
2) tourism
3) mining
4) farming

D) Snowsheds are:
1) emergency hunting shelters
2) highway covers for avalanches
3) winter footwear
4) ice fishing windblocks

E) How many time zones are in Canada?
1) 2
2) 4
3) 6
4) 8

The Stage 1 latitude is N 5 3° 0 7 . (A+3) 6 (B+1)

The Stage 1 longitude is: W 0 0 3° 5 0 . (C+8) (D+5) (E+5)

The Stage 1 cache is a redirector (Small plastic box) containing only one piece of information - the longitude and latitude of Stage 2. Just one problem: While the longitude is for the Welsh second stage, the latitude is for the second stage in Canada.

Parking

Parking is available at the Forestry Commission carpark (pay and display) N 53° 07.603 W 003° 51.006 and is the only place you should park for both caches. The FC have requested that this car park should also be used for stage 2 and under no circumstances should you just park at the side of the road to get a little closer.

Cache In, Trash Out

In the stage 1 cache, you will also find some Cache in, trash out Bags, so do use these on your walks around the area to remove any rubbish you may come across and help keep this area clean and beautiful.

STAGE TWO

Now it's time to team up with your fellow geocachers across the pond. You're going to have to trade latitudes to find Stage 2. Here's how you do it:

1. Take a look below for notes anyone in Canada may have posted to this website requesting a partner to exchange latitudes with. If you find someone, click on their user name to get to their profile page, then email them via geocaching.com and arrange the trade between yourselves.

2. If you fail to find any such notes, you can post one yourself on our counterpart cache page in Canada. Hopefully, someone in Canada who needs an Welsh partner will read your note and contact you via geocaching.com. You may have to wait a bit for this, of course.

3. If you've waited more than three weeks without finding a partner, please contact the Canadian cache owners, and they will give you the second-stage latitude. (Of course, we could give you the number ourselves, but that wouldn't be in keeping with the international spirit of this geocache!)

IMPORTANT NOTES

Please do not post premature "found it!" notes. If you post a "found it!" note before completing Stage 2, your note will be deleted (after fair warning, of course).

Also, please remove any partner-seeking notes you post on the Canadian cache page after you've found a partner. Otherwise, you'll keep getting contacted, and folks up there will be frustrated by the clutter of old notes. Whenever we find outdated notes on these two cache pages, we will remove them.

Finally, please don't post any coordinates on either of these cache pages. Posts that include coordinates will be deleted as soon as they are discovered.

The cache is a large plastic Box, camouflaged and stocked full of all kinds of Canadian goodies, sent directly from our Canuck caching counterparts. Our friends across the pond were kind enough to send us extra Canadian swag to keep the cache fully loaded -- so please try and bring Welsh items to trade, so that we can keep their cache loaded with just as much cool stuff from the welsh hills and valleys. Please do not remove any items that are from Wales - only take the (very cool) Canadian items in trade.

Please also take care to replace it (and its camo) exactly as you found it, so that we can avoid detection.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Stage 1] Npprff gur pnpur sebz gur erne. Gur pnpur vf ybpngrq haqre gur gehax bs n snyyra gerr. [Stage 2] Ybpngrq arkg gb n ynetr ebpx jvgu angheny pnzbhsyntr ba gbc

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)