Heber's 'Gross' Cache Multi-Cache
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Stage 1 - you're looking for a camo'd tube about 3 inches long
slightly larger than a pen in diameter.
Stage 2 - you're looking for a pill bottle .
Distance between the stages is about a 2.5 miles, perhaps a bit
more or less, depending on how you drive from one to the
other.
The “Gross” in the name of this cache has nothing to do
with disgusting. Dictionary.com gives several definitions for
Gross Here are some of them:
–adjective
- without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary,
profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the
like ( opposed to net): gross earnings; gross sales.
- lacking in refinement, good manners, education, etc.;
unrefined.
–noun
- a group of 12 dozen, or 144, things.
–verb (used with object)
- to have, make, or earn as a total before any deductions, as of
taxes, expenses, etc.: The company grossed over three million
dollars last year.
You’ll be looking for the mathematical one. When you get to
each of the two stages of this multi-cache, look around to see
where the 12 x 12 came from.
If you don’t get it, I’m sorry, but I thought it was a
clever idea. But then again, I’m a self-proclaimed nerd as
well!!
Though this cache is not about disgusting things, Gross could
describe the Garbage Compactor on the Death Star. Here’s some
quotes from that scene in Star Wars Episode IV: A New
Hope
Princess Leia: Someone has to save our skins. Into the
garbage chute, fly boy.
Han Solo: Wonderful girl. Either I'm going to kill her or
I'm beginning to like her.
Han Solo: Get in there, you big furry oaf! I don't care what
you smell!
[Han, Luke, Leia and Chewie land in the trash compactor]
Han Solo: Garbage chute. Really wonderful idea. What an
incredible smell you've discovered! Let's get out of here! Get away
from there...
Luke: No, wait...!
[Han draws his laser pistol and fires at the hatch. The laser bolt
ricochets wildly around the small room. Everyone dives for cover in
the garbage as the bolt finally explodes]
Luke: Will you forget it? I already tried it. It's
magnetically sealed!
Princess Leia: Put that thing away, you're gonna get us all
killed!
Han Solo: Absolutely, Your Worship. Look, I had everything
under control until you led us down here! Now it's not going to
take them long to figure out what happened to us.
Princess Leia: It could be worse.
[Garbage creature growls]
Han Solo: It's worse.
Han Solo: One thing's for sure, we're all gonna be a lot
thinner.
A garbage compactor (or trash compactor) was a chamber used to
store and compress refuse. The walls would come together and
compress and crush the garbage. The doors to the compactors were
usually magsealed.
The garbage compactor that Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and
Princess Leia fell into aboard the Death Star I was under the
category of recyclable waste.
They were attacked by a dianoga, which were known to have been kept
in compactors by the Galactic Empire.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Fgt1- Ybj
Fgt2- haqre ebpxf arkg gb cbyr.