This cache is a Multi that follows the 1825 Santa Fe Trail Survey Team as they cross Ford County, Kansas.
They've added a second sign to some locations. You are only looking at the brass plaques set in a limestone fence post.
Not the new signs built into a wooden frame around the limestone.
This multi cache will take about an hour, if done without making other stops. I have mileage as 31.6 from start (18.8 miles E,SE of Dodge City) to finish (8.8 miles W,NW of Dodge City), with parts of it being dirt roads. The cache can be done with easy walks to the markers.
All parts but the final cache site could even be done without getting out of your vehicle if you have binoculars.
1. Find the marker at the starting coordinates.
Fill in the blank with the day the Survey Team was there.
N37 39.916 W099 45.3-1
Optional markers between cache markers (not part of cache)
GPS at Marker: N37 39.492 W099 41.808
GPS at Marker: N37 39.510 W099 42.107
GPS at Marker: N37 39.716 W099 43.379
2. Find the marker at coordinates from #1
Fill in the blank with the number of E's.
N37 44.419 W099 5-.650
Optional markers between cache markers (not part of cache)
GPS at Marker: N37 40.575 W099 45.792
GPS at Marker: N37 41.133 W099 48.104
GPS at Marker: N37 41.733 W099 50.021
GPS at Marker: N37 43.618 W099 55.187
GPS at Marker: N37 43.976 W099 56.143
3. Find the marker at coordinates from #2
Fill in the blank with the number of words on the plaque (don't count abbreviations, just full words).
N37 47.340 W100 11.-01
Optional markers between cache markers (not part of cache)
GPS at Marker: N37 45.142 W100 04.596
GPS at Marker: N37 45.149 W100 04.974 (GCQZ97)
GPS at Marker: N37 45.655 W100 05.279
GPS at Marker: N37 45.881 W100 07.403
GPS at Marker: N37 46.897 W100 10.426
4. Find the marker at coordinates from #3
Fill in the blanks with this number: Date of month the survey team camped minus 3 (same number).
N37 4-.44- W100 11.811
5. Find the cache at the coordinates from #4
Congratulations!