The Mountie Always Gets His Dragon (Canada) Multi-cache

This cache has been archived.

Wizard of Ooze: As the cache owner has not indicated that they have visited the cache location to replace it if missing, perform needed maintenance, or verify that it is still there within the requested time period, I am regretfully archiving the cache to clear it from the active cache database and open the area to new caching opportunities.

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Hidden : 5/10/2004
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:



THE LISTED COORDINATES ARE BOGUS. The listed coordinates are your parking coordinates for stage 1. To find stage 1, you must learn a little Welsh trivia.

We're bringing a little of the Green Green Grass of Home right here to Victoria! This end of the cache is stocked with terrific items sent across the pond by Wild Trekker, the owner of the Welsh half of this cache. I have sent Canadian items over to stock the Welsh end. When you make a trade on this end, please try to exchange Canadian theme items so that we can restock the Welsh end of the cache.

This is a two-stage Canadian geocache working in tandem with a two-stage Welsh geocache. To find Stage 1, you must learn a few things about our new friends. To find Stage 2, you must partner with them online.
STAGE ONE

So how much do you know about are Canadian friends and their great country? Well lets find out. You will need to answer these questions to find the coordinates to the first stage cache.
The Quiz

A) What is the Highest Mountain in Wales, standing at 1085 meters?
1) Y-Garn
2) Glyder Fawr
3) Snowdon
4) Everest

B) What is the English translation for the welsh word "Croeso"?
1) Good Bye
2) Hello
3) Welcome
4) Thank you

C) Who is the Patron Saint of Wales?
1) St Patrick
2) St David
3) St Andrew
4) St George

D) Which Welsh Actors surname was originally "Jenkins"?
1) Daniel Evans
2) Anthony Hopkins
3) Stanley Baker
4) Richard Burton

E) Which Welshman could rightly be called "the man who measured Canada"?
1) David Thompson
2) David Williams
3) Daily Thomson
4) Dafydd Jones

Now, take your answers and plug them in to find the coordinates for Stage 1.

N 48° (QA) 3 . 7 (QD+3) 4
W 123° (QC) 7 . 4 (QB+3) (QE+3)

The Stage 1 cache is a redirector containing only one piece of information- the longitude and latitude of Stage 2. Just one problem: While the longitude is for the Canada second stage, the latitude is for the second stage in Wales.


Parking

Parking is available at N48 33.761 W123 27.514


STAGE TWO

All right, now it's time to team up with your fellow geocachers in Wales. You're going to have to trade latitudes to find Stage 2. Here's how you do it:

1. Take a look below for notes anyone in Wales may have posted to this website requesting a partner to exchange latitudes with. If you find someone, click on their user name to get to their profile page, then email them via geocaching.com and arrange the trade between yourselves.

2. If you fail to find any such notes, you can post one yourself on our counterpart cache page in Wales. Hopefully, someone in Wales who needs a Canadian partner will read your note and contact you via geocaching.com. You may have to wait a bit for this, of course.

3. If you've waited more than three weeks without finding a partner, please contact the Welsh cache owner, and they will give you the second-stage latitude. (Of course, we could give you the number ourselves, but that wouldn't be in keeping with the international spirit of this geocache!)




IMPORTANT NOTES

Please do not post premature "found it!" notes. If you post a "found it!" note before completing Stage 2, your note will be deleted (after fair warning, of course).

Also, please remove any partner-seeking notes you post on the Welsh cache page after you've found a partner. Otherwise, you'll keep getting contacted, and folks there will be frustrated by the clutter of old notes. Whenever we find outdated notes on these two cache pages, we will remove them.

Finally, please don't post any coordinates on either of these cache pages. Posts that include coordinates will be deleted as soon as they are discovered.


Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fgntr 1 - Sebz yvggyr svyz pnavfgref, zvtugl gerrf tebj. Fgntr 2 - Ab Ubefrf jvyy cbvag lbh gb gur pnpur.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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