First thing's first. The posted co-ordinates are NOT the
location of the geocache. There is no tupperware in the
intersection, don't bother going there. The co-ordinates are a
random location between the various stages that you must visit
first. The cache is within 15 kilometers of this
location.
Fancy yourself to be an avid night cacher?
Welcome to BFL Boot Camp, brought to you by The Keepers of the
Order of the BFL.
Each founding member of "The Order" has prepared their own night
cache that contains a unique challenge. Once you conquer these
challenges, you will have the insight to find the final location,
and confront "The Tree".
Just what IS a BFL?
The night cacher is armed with a multitude of tools to get the
job done, but the most basic item is your illumination source -
except, perhaps for nocturnal creatures that navigate by cat's eyes
or sonar. The Order of the BFL has a couple meanings, but we'll
stick with the illumination definition for this cache
First there is the TFL, or Tiny Flash
Light:
This category contains things like glow in the dark stickers,
single LED keychains and Indiglo wrist watches.
Effective for telling the time, but not for geocaching.
Next up is the trusty LFL, or Little Flash
Light:
Here is where you will find the majority of head lamps, mini mag
lites, and Magellan eXplorist GPS units.
The MFL, or Medium Flash Light:
The typical handheld flashlight, or a handheld torch would fall
nicely in this category. LED based units give the advantage of long
run time, at the cost of less light.
The BFL:
This class of lighting equipment is the 1,000,000 candlewatt and
up category.
In this category, you may find large flashlights, Jeep
headlights, and that little bulb atop the Luxor Hotel in Las
Vegas.
These are the lights that night cachers are made of. This is for
the night cacher that prefers to cache during daylight, but not
daylight hours. Often, teams of these cachers can be seen from the
International Space Station, although an official report on this
phenomenon is yet to be produced by NASA.
The Prelude
Now to begin your training. You should have a BFL for the
searching, and an LFL for the walking - preferably a head lamp.
To start your journey, visit the challenges offered by each of
the charter members of the Keepers of the Order of the BFL, and
obtain the secret within each cache.
|
Cache ID |
Cache Name |
Placed By |
Code |
|
|
|
Dyslexia |
Keith
Watson |
|
A |
|
|
The Circle |
northernpenguin |
|
B |
|
|
What Bugs you at
Night? |
Kitten on the
hunt |
|
C |
|
|
Walking in the
Woods |
chris-mouse |
|
D |
|
|
Norm's Lamest Night
Cache |
Jimminie
Cricketts |
|
E |
For the North co-ordinate:
Add A+B+C+D+E together: ________________________
Subtract 99716 : __________________________
Divide this number by 10000: _______________________
Now this is important: Treat these as ordinary math numbers for
this part. Take the space/degree symbol out and treat it like a big
number. For example, N 43° 34.283 is represented as 4334.283.
Please don't adjust the numbers to handle the rounding that occurs
between 59.999 and 00.000, that may put you in the wrong place
altogether.
Subtract from the posted North Co-ordinate (again, don't round
the minutes): ____ ____.____
To find the West Co-ordinate:
* This step does not use any of the math from the north
co-ordinate. Start over with your codes.
Now this is important: Treat these as ordinary math numbers for
this part. Take the space/degree symbol out and treat it like a big
number. For example, N 80° 00.258 is represented as 8000.258.
Please don't adjust the numbers to handle the rounding that occurs
between 59.999 and 00.000, that may put you in the wrong place
altogether.
Take the two largest code numbers, add them together:
____________________
Subtract the remaining three code numbers:
_____________________________
Add 5790: ______________________________
Divide by 1000 ____________________________
Subtract from the posted WEST Co-ordinate:
_________________________ (don't round the minutes)
Parking:
North: (The Tree) - 0.070
West: (The Tree) + 0.046 (in this case, you should round the
minutes up to the next degree if necessary)
Checksums:
(This is for The Tree, not the parking)
North: Sum of last three digits is divisible by 5 or 3
West: Sum of last three digist is divisible by 2 or 5
The Tree
Once you arrive at parking, head to The
Tree.
Here you will locate a micro that contains
co-ordinates for another micro, hidden some
distance away that contains the cache final co-ordinates.
Maybe.
Your journey may end up longer than the above described
scenario, and really - it is all up to you.
The cache final contains a Lock'n'Lock container with a log book
and some small trade items.
We hope you enjoy this 'intro' to night caching as much as we
have enjoyed placing this series of caches.
Helper Spreadsheet
Do you use a PDA when caching? I've prepared a Microsoft Excel
spreadsheet that will handle the math for you. Just plug the codes
in and it will produce the co-ordinates for The Tree and The
Parking for The Tree.
Download the Spreadsheet Here.
Due to limitations of Pocket Excel, you'll have to input part of
the west calculation manually.
