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A multi-stage cache. The coordinates above are only an indication of the area, and a place to park. There is no physical cache until the last stage.
Prologue
Five stops altogether here and around,
About a two kilometer walk, just about town.
It takes imagination, a calculator, and definitely a pen,
To note the last three digits and clues they portend.
Adjust your display to get five decimals all digital,
'Cause minutes are for clocks, and entirely unconscionable.
One
November of Eighty-six was a good month to see,
Or at least the favorite, it says, of a tall tree.
Cylindrical and green beside the longest lines in town,
It smells of java where his neighbour has three for a crown.
Look for three eighty-two as the last ones longitudinally,
If you see those, plus or minus four, it's One absolute-ely.
Two
Noting the coordinates from our first search,
A little calculation to be not left in the lurch.
The last three of latitude minus three cees,
Are exactly and precisely the new course, he leaves.
Keep going a few minutes 'til you see deer just 'round,
If one says one point, and three billion, Two is found.
Three
So, with numbers at Two thereabouts accumulated,
Some more arithmetic for a direction unabated.
Nelson was Cast plus ninety-two, divided by seven,
Sets a longer and steeper course to be headin'.
Choose a corner high, a view, and west oh two one,
If C.S. was here in eighty-two, then Three is done.
Four
The day plus four plus the month C.S. Three scratched,
Projects a new direction along and into a patch.
The distance is more important here one would bet,
At latitude eight oh nine, Four is when your toes get wet.
Rest awhile, for Five the three west here are now needed,
Added to thirty, then divided by five, a course to be heeded.
Five
A special tribute to an Italian movie star I know,
Is a cryptic conclusion where glyphs fell long ago.
Northerly, they decline like four three two to the spot,
On old rows, the End, her idiom, for those who wonder not.
So take a minute or two, okay, to see sad signs,
And find a cache there to put your name on lines.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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Qba'g oryvrir va nalguvat ohg Gehr Abegu.
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Sbetrg tbvat zntargvp, hfr gur cbvagre ba lbhe znc cntr.
Sebz urer gb nal byq jnlcbvag, vf fubja, n pregnva qrterr,
Nqwhfgrq ol bar rvtugl, gur yvar tbrf haqre lbhe srrg, lbh frr.