No Minutes, No Seconds. 45 x 68 Traditional Cache
BigSquid1970: Do not live in this area anymore.
No Minutes, No Seconds. 45 x 68
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Only a hundred yards or so off the road.
While overseas with the Navy, Chris was searching for a cache or two to do in Sicily. He came upon one that caught his eye called “No Minutes, No Seconds” (or something like that). It intrigued him, so he looked into it deeper and discovered the whole Degree Confluence Project deal. On earth, where the major lines of latitude cross the major lines of longitude, that is called a “degree confluence” No minutes, no seconds. N44.00.000 W070.00.000 is one example of this. Upon further investigation and finding the website: (visit link) it was discovered that there are 12 such confluences in Maine. 10 are on or near dry land and 2 are just off the coast. There is a graphic from the website illustrating this in the gallery.
The SuitedPair were brand new to caching at this time and had only found around 15 caches so far. But, we were hooked! We wanted to place some caches of our own, too, but wanted to come up with something cool; something neat! On the Confluence Project website, we noticed that no one person had ever been to ALL of the confluences in Maine. We have taken this on as a challenge! Not only are we going to visit all of them, but we are going to place a cache at (or really near) all of them as well!
To get to this cache, and almost as importantly, the confluence, take the Stud Mill Road out to the east. Turn down Fire Road 38-00-0. after about a mile to a mile and a quarter, start slowing down and looking for N45.00.000. We parked right on the line (Half way between the equator and the North Pole!) and walked into the woods on the left side of the road. The terrain isn't bad and the forest isn't too dense, but it IS about 40 miles out a dirt road!
The cache is a square lock n lock and it is hanging in a tree exactly at the posted coordinates. It contains some normal swag and a logbook and pen. Please take a picture of how close you could get your GPS to zero out. We got it exactly!
Feel free to go to the Confluence website and log your visit. It, like Geocaching.com is free.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Ab uvagf arrqrq. Whfg svaq gur pbbeqvangrf!