*** CACHE IS NOT
AT THE LISTED COORDINATES ***
BACKGROUND
From Gazette.Net
(Maryland Community Newspapers Online)
March 13, 2002
Thaddeus Vincenty (Szpila), of Washington Grove, died March 6,
2002. He was born Oct. 27, 1920, in Grodzisko, Poland, the son of
the late Vincenty Szpila and Apollonia Kulpa.
Mr. Vincenty came to the United States in 1947. He retired from
the U.S. Air Force in 1967 as a senior master sergeant. He worked
for the National Geodetic Survey, Department of Commerce, as a
geodesist until his retirement in 1987. He worked in adapting the
three-dimensional adjustment techniques to NAD 83 and also doing
many things for the geodetic world.
Mr. Vincenty is survived by his wife, Barbara Vincenty; a
daughter, Krysia Moore and her husband, Brian, of Mt. Airy; two
sons, Michael Vincenty of Frederick and Richard Vincenty and his
wife, Marie; three grandchildren, Deanna, Daniel and Alicia, all of
Gaithersburg; and several brothers and sisters.
Funeral services were held Monday at De Vol Funeral Home,
Gaithersburg. Burial in Parklawn Memorial Park Cemetery,
Rockville.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer
Society, Montgomery County Unit, 11331 Amherst Ave., Silver Spring,
MD 20902.
THE CACHE:
To locate the cache container, begin your journey at the listed
coordinates and walk due north for exactly fifty miles. Now turn
east and continue for another fifty miles, then head south for an
additional fifty miles. Finally, travel west another fifty
miles.
You might be surprised to learn that you have not arrived back
at your starting point. Were Thaddeus Vincenty still around, he
would explain that your 200-mile journey had not been on a plane,
but on the curved surface of the earth (you had, in fact, travelled
a great circle route on the WGS84 spheroid). To the great good
fortune of geocachers everywhere, Vincenty developed an extremely
accurate method to calculate such variances, which came to be known
as Vincenty's Direct Method, and which is used by most
modern GPS recievers when projecting waypoints. If you happen to
have an older receiver, simply employ one of the many software
solutions or online calculators.
Once you've determined the correct coordinates, you'll be
looking for a BioKips SnapWare container holding a logbook, a pen,
and a few trade items. The area near the cache represents a good
CITO opportunity. Enjoy your trip!
(Many thanks to the
Dreamcachers for the inspiration)
 Kid Friendly 
Lunchtime Cache  Cache In - Trash
Out!
 Less than 500 ft. from
car to cache  Beware of Muggles!
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