The Twain Shall Meet (Team Cache) Multi-cache
lerup: The woods in Summerstown are no longer a pleasant spot to spend an afternoon. The roads and trails are in miserable condition and don't appear to be maintained at all. The whole place seems to be used as a dump, although we didn't see any animal carcasses as reported by a recent visitor to one of our caches.
So we're archiving all three of our caches in these woods. Hopefully the place will be improved a bit some time. Thanks to all visitors to these somewhat out-of-the-way caches.
The Twain Shall Meet (Team Cache)
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Team Cache near Summerstown Station, Ontario.
The best way to solve this cache is to use two teams, each equipped with at least one GPSr and some means of communicating with the other team (FSR radio, cell phone, carrier pigeons, ...). The two teams will follow different paths to the cache, using dreaded redirect tags. However, the teams will need to communicate with each other in order to construct the location of each intermediate point on each route.
First divide yourselves into two teams; we will call them the "Red" and "Blue" teams. Start at the posted coordinates (you can park nearby). There you will find a tag, giving the minutes parts of the coordinates for the first intermediate point for each team. These are ordinary redirects.
Please note that no motor vehicles are allowed beyond the parking lot between December 15 and April 15. This area becomes a cross country ski mecca in the winter time, so respect the groomed trails.
There are redirect tags at the intermediate points. These each contain the value of the minutes for one latitude and one longitude of the next waypoint. However, only one of the values is for the team following the path on which the waypoint is located; the other value is for the other team. The teams need to exchange these values at each intermediate waypoint. To make it a little easier, the tags identify which coordinate belongs to which team. For example, if the tag reads "R xx.xxx B yy.yyy", then "xx.xxx" belongs to the next waypoint for the "Red" team and "yy.yyy" belongs to the next waypoint for the "Blue" team.
All coordinates are in decimal minutes, in WGS84. N45° is assumed for all latitudes, W74° for all longitudes. It should be quite obvious which partial coordinates are longitudes and which are latitudes - no distances are huge; the total length of each path is around 1 km.
Please stay on the trails; all redirects are very close to the trail, on trees at around eye height. A short bushwhack is needed to reach the cache itself.
The cache is an ammo box; wedged between two trunks of a tree. It contains the ususal collection of trinkets, log book, etc.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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