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Multi-cacheDowny's Burrow

A cache by needsmoreritalin     Hidden: 7/11/2006

Size: Size: Small (Small)     Difficulty: 2 out of 5     Terrain: 1.5 out of 5 (1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)


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N/S ? ??.??? W/E ??? ??.??? 
In Maine, United States

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5 Miles from Turnpike Exit 44, And walking distance from Washington Ave and 295. A very quick offset cache.
There is plenty of parking and great place to walk or bike in the area. When you have parked, head to the coordinates. There you will find a flag pole. Facing North you will see two identical red signs. They have a # under them.

Record this number. Give it the the Value "X"

The signs the number is under have "Y" sides to them.

As you face these Red signs you are facing North. You will see two ballfields and to the left a larger ballfield. Inside the fences of each of these ballfields is the distance from Home to the fence. (luckily the same value for Right, Center and Left field for the three of them)

The Shortest distance are values ABC (1 letter for each digit in the order of the number)
The Middle Distance are values EFG
The Largest Distance are Values IJK

To find the cache:

The missing Norh coordinate can be calculated by taking the last three digits of the flag pole's coordinate for North and subtracting CIF (Substitute the number for each letter. Do not multiply C * I * F, rather just use the value of B in the hundreds place and I in the 10's and F in the ones)

North 43 40._ _ _

The Western Cordinate is devised by using the number we got at the flag pole. (X * Y)* G + J. (remember do the parenthesis first then multiply that result by G and then add J. This will give you a 3 digit number.

West 70.16. ___

Now go there and behold the cache!

 

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

Qvq V "fghzc" lbh?(Decrypted Hints)

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Downy and Her First Cache

Jealous that I was having all the fun, Downy (my Holland Lop Eared Rabbit) decided to make a series of caches of her own. She lets me pick where I can hide them for her, but has instructed me to "Think Like A Bunny." So all these caches will be kid friendly.
I can see my JOB from here...

But at least I am out having fun now.
START HERE

The journey begins at this flagpole. The red signs are just out of the pic on the left side of the photo.
The view from the cache spot

If you see this view, you are VERY close.

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Found it56     Didn't find it3     Write note4     Publish Listing1     Owner Maintenance1     

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 October 29, 2009 by 3piedras (438 found)
Hmmm, I don't get a 3 digit number for the West coordinates? What could I have done wrong? I think I know what I did. I used the numbers from the left ballfield only. When I re-read the page, I now see that it was suppose to be numbers from BOTH ballfields?

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 August 22, 2009 by Kacky (642 found)
Found while recording a podcast episode with Gildenning and Team V3. Made for a fun podcast/ A little small for the tb, so I will just drop it and grab it back for mileage.

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Photo The GPS says "go this way"

 August 10, 2009 by twoblackcatz (71 found)
Felt like we were going around in circles doing the puzzle and then walking to the cache. We saw some animals' tail in a hole in a tree. Wasn't sure if it was dead or sleeping. Thanks for the fun cache!!

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 July 23, 2009 by Team V3 (183 found)
Found this cache and loved the puzzle. Cole enjoyed running around the bases. We left Spongebob toy and Diego top. Cole took a little keychain.

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 June 24, 2009 by OOMaine (433 found)
Had some ice cream with LMcGill and went on the solve the puzzle... I saw the cache and thought it was trash... it just goes to show that one man's trash is another man's treasure...(or cache)

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Current Time: 2/10/2010 5:32:27 AM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) (1:32 PM GMT)
Last Updated: 10/29/2009 4:50:19 PM Pacific Daylight Time (11:50 PM GMT)
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Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum


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