Middle to Locust FTF Power Trail #34 Mystery Cache

*** The Cache is NOT at the posted coordinates! ***

*** Please park safely and legally, and be very stealthy while hunting this cache to ensure the hide remains a secret!

*** INITIALS ONLY ON THE LOG PLEASE ***

*** Bring your own writing utensil ***

Middle Road, turning into Locust Street spans 20 miles, beginning in northeast Bettendorf and ending in western Davenport. It is a thoroughfare for traffic in Scott County.

This is a FTF Power Trail, beginning at the start of Middle Road. A "Power Trail" is a series of at least 50 geocaches within close proximity. A "FTF Power Trail" means that if you are the "first to find" (i.e. the 'FTF') of a cache in this series, PLEASE 'pay it forward' by placing the next cache along this trail, and do so within two weeks of getting the FTF. Keep in mind that some areas will be higher muggle traffic than others, so you may have to be creative in your hides, or may have to dive slightly off course to put out a hide.

I am dedicating this FTF Power Trail cache...

NUMBER 'THIRTY FOUR'

to the greatest NFL football player I have ever seen play the game,

(who coincidentally also wore #34 !)

and who was an even greater human being:

WALTER PAYTON

Solve the following puzzle(s) to acquire the actual coordinates of the cache:

[THE PUZZLE]

After solving the puzzle(s), convert the required letters to numbers in the usual manner (A=1, B=2, ..., Z=26) and fill the numbers in the formula below as follows:

N 41 3(S).(T)(U)(V), W 90 3(W).(X)(Y)(Z)

Where S = (9 Across, 10th letter) + (8 Down, 6th letter)

Where T = (13 Across, 4th letter) + (6 Down, 10th letter)

Where U = (7 Down, 2nd letter) + (5 Down, 10th letter)

Where V = (15 Down, 6th letter) + (17 Across, 1st letter)

Where W = (2 Across, 3rd letter) - (11 Down, 6th letter)

Where X = (12 Down, 3rd letter) + (3 Down, 10th letter)

Where Y = (10 Across, 11th letter) - (1 Down, 6th letter)

Where Z = (4 Across, 5th letter) - (16 Across, 3rd letter) + (14 Across, 3rd Letter)

To check your answer for this puzzle CLICK HERE

Congrats to: ' ' on the 'FTF' !

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