As you may have guessed, this is a tribute cache for
himilecyclist.
Himilecyclist places high quality caches. He specializes in
photo (Harvard/Yale
Photo Mystery 1) and musical (Musical
Trinity 1) puzzles, but he has a variety of other traditional
(Behemoth),
multi (Beacon
Ridge Ascent), and puzzle (City
of Books) caches to boot. He has placed some clever hides
(Westminster),
and he has hidden caches in surprising locations (Bill's
Arch). He has caches on mountains where hikers rarely tread
(Citadel
One) and on ocean side cliffs that are accessible only at low
tide (Maritime
Adventure). His hiking series (Wasatch
Workout and
MMOG-10) are legendary.
Himilecyclist will hike or bike all day to find a single cache.
He rewards a good hide with an entertaining log entry. He is the
embodiment of the phrase "it's not about the numbers." After five
and a half years of steady caching, he is just now closing in on
800 finds.
Appropriately enough, this puzzle will be easiest to solve from
the seat of a bicycle. The posted coordinates will take you to a
spot on the Jordan River Parkway at the Cottonwood Grove trailhead
in Murray. (Parking is available here.) To find the cache, you will
need to travel north along the parkway for no more than six miles.
The route meanders along the Jordan River, is almost completely
level, and except for the intersection immediately north of the
trailhead has no road crossings.
The first step is to locate the sign that is pictured above. You
will find it within the first 100 yards of your trip up the
Parkway. On the sign is a one-inch piece of reflective aluminum
(shaped like a parallelogram) displaying a single character (either
a digit or a capital letter). Find it and note the character. This
is the first clue. You will be finding three other clues as you
ride north; each is an identically-sized piece of reflective
aluminum.
Using the procedure described in the next two paragraphs, you
will use the first clue to locate the second clue, the second clue
to locate the third clue, the third clue to locate the fourth clue,
and the fourth clue to locate the cache container.
| Clue |
Distance |
Check |
| 0 |
0.72 |
60 |
| 1 |
1.75 |
20 |
| 2 |
2.38 |
38 |
| 3 |
1.92 |
77 |
| 4 |
1.99 |
54 |
| 5 |
1.60 |
74 |
| 6 |
1.23 |
68 |
| 7 |
1.68 |
67 |
| 8 |
1.12 |
91 |
| 9 |
1.42 |
36 |
| A |
1.48 |
30 |
| B |
2.27 |
42 |
|
|
| Clue |
Distance |
Check |
| C |
0.62 |
02 |
| D |
1.90 |
09 |
| E |
1.44 |
29 |
| F |
2.12 |
51 |
| G |
1.35 |
15 |
| H |
1.37 |
66 |
| I |
0.69 |
21 |
| J |
1.38 |
74 |
| K |
0.74 |
33 |
| L |
0.69 |
95 |
| M |
1.22 |
34 |
| N |
0.78 |
73 |
|
|
| Clue |
Distance |
Check |
| O |
1.13 |
77 |
| P |
0.79 |
47 |
| Q |
2.05 |
83 |
| R |
0.80 |
06 |
| S |
2.40 |
57 |
| T |
1.68 |
97 |
| U |
2.28 |
80 |
| V |
1.80 |
61 |
| W |
0.50 |
51 |
| X |
0.84 |
68 |
| Y |
1.28 |
11 |
| Z |
1.58 |
10 |
|
When you find a clue, locate its row in the table above. In the
second column you will find the distance (in miles) that you must
travel to find the next clue (or the cache). This distance is not
measured as the crow flies; it is measured along the
Parkway. You will need to use your bike's odometer, your GPSr's
trip odometer, or something similar to measure the distance.
When you have traveled the specified distance, you will find the
clue (or cache) a few feet to the right of the Parkway. Since it is
difficult to measure exact distances, there is a way for you to
check your measurements. When you have reached the correct location
on the Parkway, the north coordinate displayed by your GPSr will
end with the two digits from the third column (assuming your GSPr
is displaying that coordinate in the form N DD° MM.MMM). As long as
your odometer gets you within a few hundred feet of the correct
location, you can use this information to fine-tune your
position.
The cache container is (what else?) a waterproof match
container. Have fun, log your find, and then go out and find some
of himilecyclist's caches!