The cache is not at the posted coordinates.
You must visit the other sixteen trolley caches to get the fifteen code words for this cache, solve the code, and do some basic math to arrive at the correct coordinates.
Take a ride on the light rail. These caches have been designed to get you out of your auto and spend some time on public transportation, but you do not need to ride on the light rail to find them. Each of the sixteen caches has been placed near stations along the Santa Clara Valley Light Rail line. Each cache can be logged on its own, but you'll need to find the first sixteen caches in order to obtain the coordinates for the seventeenth cache. The log for each cache, except one, includes a numerical value or code word that is used to figure out the final coordinates for the seventeenth cache.
Light Rail Cache Series
To find the coordinates for this cache you must find the first sixteen caches with the code words, translate the code to get a value for each station, do the math and substitute the following values:
- A = Alder + Santa Teresa
- B = Moffett Park - Great America
- C = River Oaks + Tamien
- D = Curtner – Snell
- E = Moffett Park – Lockheed-Martin
- F = Whisman - McKee
- G = Capitol x Almaden
- H = Moffett Park – Curtner
- I = Cottle – Branham
- J = Almaden + Tamien
- K = Lockheed-Martin – Whisman
- L = Mountain View – Almaden
- M = Cottle ÷ Capitol
- N = Whisman + River Oaks
- O = Branham - Mountain View
North AB° CD.EFG West HIJ° KL.MNO
January-6-2021 - Final cache location and puzzle updated.
The cache is a faux rock.