Village of Friendship Pictorial Mystery Cache
sandlanders: Some of the photo locations have been changed from what was originally used in this puzzle. Archiving rather than redoing. Thank you to all who visited and explored the Village of Friendship while working on this cache. The container at the final location has been removed.
Village of Friendship Pictorial
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For this particular cache, you are looking for a magnetic camoed pill bottle at the final location. Please make sure that it is firmly attached when you return it to its hiding position. Print out the photo images, the updated changes (2/7/2020), and the list of questions to answer, and bring them with you on your walk. They will most likely not show up on your receiver, and paper printouts should be easier to use.
The cache container is NOT at the given coordinates!
Friendship was founded in 1857 as a farming community around a mill and a dam on the Little Roche-A-Cri Creek, which now forms Friendship Lake at the north end of town. The village marked its centennial in 1957 and its sesquicentennial in 2007 with old-time celebrations that included ice cream socials, period fashion shows, and beard-growing contests. Friendship is the county seat of Adams County and it is also the location of the county fairgrounds and the local hospital and clinics.
The premise of this cache is the same as one (now archived) by geolivestrong that we enjoyed doing in Wautoma called "What Are You Looking At?" Based on that cache, for the 2012 centennial of the founding of Adams, we came up with one for cachers to do in the City of Adams called "City of Adams Pictorial". Now you will have the chance to take a walk along Main Street (Highway 13) in the adjoining Village of Friendship while trying to spot where the fifteen photos below were taken. Many highlight the original buildings and architectural details of the early days of the village. At each place, you need to answer the corresponding question in the list below the photos, and use that number in the correct spot to find the coordinates of the cache container.
You can park in any legal location on Main Street and the side streets, but the given coordinates of this puzzle cache will take you to the parking lot of the historical society, and there is also a business lot on the east side of Main Street just a little bit north of the given coordinates. As for the range of the fifteen photo locations, you will NOT have to go north of First Street, and you will NOT have to go much farther south than Airport Road. The distance you will walk will be about half a mile total. Some of the photo spots are more easily noticed close up while others are easier to see from across the street. All are on Main Street, and use care when crossing the busy highway.
We have given this puzzle cache a T1 rating because all parts of it are wheelchair accessible on flat surfaces. However, you will be walking about a half a mile to get all the information and the final, so keep this distance in mind when looking at the T1 rating. You may also be able to spot most of the photo locations from a moving vehicle, but you might have to make several passes to get them all, and you should NOT choose this option if you are alone in the vehicle. Let a passenger make the observations.
Permission has been given for the placement of the cache container.
The cache container can be found at
North AB˚CD.EFG West HIJ˚KL.MNO
*** checksum for North: A+B+C+D+E+F+G = 36
*** checksum for West: H+I+J+K+L+M+N+O = 53
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
jrfg gb rnfg: bar, gjb, guerr, ernpu va.