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Seeds of Hope Cache (Squeamish 1000 seed cache) Multi-cache

This cache has been archived.

Barthonis: This one has had an interesting run these last 2 years. But it is time to retire it. Between the floods and the muggles, it has spent more time disabled than enabled. [:(] Sad to see this one go, as it is my first cache I've had to archive. Will post a note on the Squeamish 1000 cache page that this one has been archived as well.

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Hidden : 12/2/2003
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

#### CACHE UPDATED 12/7/2003 ####

This is a seed cache from the Squeamish 1000 Cache page. It is located in Hope Martin Memorial Park. The coords are for a virtual cache used to gather information. The Park has a shelter, restrooms, and plenty of walking trails along Blackhawk Creek. Parking is available about 100 feet from the first cache site. Easy walking from there.


I used to come camping here when I was younger. It was pretty cool to have a campground right in the middle of town. but after the "Great Flood" of 1993, the city decided not to fix up the campground area of this park. Of course, the creek is prone to flooding, so it was probably just a matter of time before the camping section was closed down anyway.

The above coords will take you to the old park campground rules sign. You can still see the remnants of the old campground to the west of this sign. Answer the following questions and plug your answers into the formulas below to get the coords for the final physical cache.

1) How many words are on the top line of the sign? We will call this number "A".

2) How many rules were there for camping in this park? We will call this number "B".

3) How many words are on line number three of the sign? We will call this number "C".

4) For rule #3, how many letters are in word number four? We will call this number "D".

5) How many letters are in the last word of the last rule? We will call this number "E".

6) How many lines total are on this sign? We will call this number "F".

7) Take the total number of words in the "rules" section and subtract the total number of words in the "non-rules" section. We will call this number "G".

Longitude: N 42.2F.ADB Latitude: W 092.2C.AEG

The final cache is within 20 feet of the above formula(overhead cover prevented any closer coords, besides...what fun would it be if you were able to walk right to it!)

Please check out the Squeamish 1000 cache as well. Thanks to Squeamish for making this cache possible!

The final cache can be gotten to with very minimal bushwacking. If you stick to the old campground road, it turns into a dirtbike trail that will take you to within 30 feet of the final cache.

Fear not the ob-stack-les in your path!

***WARNING*** If you try to cheat this cache and walk back along the levee/dike, I hope you bring along swimming trunks and a towel. There will be water to cross from either levee/dike. Also if you don't stick to the old campground road/dirt path and try to bushwack a straight line to it, you will probably have to cross some very muddy/wet low lying areas that fill rather easily with stagnant water and mosquitos after it rains, SO JUST STICK TO THE PATH AND ENJOY THE WALK!!!!! 3/22/05 Any "found it" logs without a logbook signature will be deleted. I do monitor my caches.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

3) ybbx ng YVAR ahzore guerr, abg EHYR ahzore guerr. 7) Sbe guvf dhrfgvba, gur gbc unys vf pbafvqrerq gur "aba-ehyrf" frpgvba. Gur obggbz unys (fgnegvat nsgre gur ahzore 1) vf gur "ehyrf" frpgvba.

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)