Peter Pan: Toronto Mystery Cache
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The Peter Pan caches are an international grouping of seven multi-caches. Find foreign friends and solve seven caches in five countries across three continents.
Each Peter Pan cache is a multi-cache. The given location is your local Peter Pan statue designed by Sir George Frampton (1860-1928) following a commission by J M Barrie. Seven castings were made and the statues reside in:
The original statue was commissioned in 1912. One of the seven castings was erected in Toronto in 1929. The Toronto statue is located in Glen Gould park on the northwest corner of St Clair Avenue and Avenue Rd. The cache has to be found in two stages. First, there's a metal tag stamped with a latitude and a longitude, but they are NOT for the location of the Toronto cache.The latitude is for one of the other caches in the series, the longitude is for a different one of the other caches. To find the final of this cache, you will have to contact someone who has found one of the other caches, and trade coordinates until you have the set you need. The coordinate information does not include which city the coordinates are for. Figuring that out is left as an exercise for the cachers.
Once you have found the final cache, you may log a find on the cache here, as usual. If your coordinates help another geocacher team find one of the other caches, you may claim a find for that cache too. In order to claim a find on one ofthe other caches, your log must include the names of the other cachers who you helped, and you must e-mail Tinkerbell the secret code word from that other cache.
To get started with the Toronto cache, proceed to the posted coordinates. There you will find the statue of Peter Pan. In front of the statue is a plaque set into the ground. To find the stage container take the digital root of the four digit number on the plaque., divide by 1000, and SUBTRACT this number from the latitude minutes of the statue. The result is the latitude minutes of the next clue. Next, take the number of letters in the second line of the plaque, SUBTRACT the number of letters in the last line of the plaque. Divide this number by 1000, and SUBTRACT the result from the longitude minutes of the statue to get the longitude minutes of the next stage. As a check, the sum of the two numbers has a digital root of 8.
Parking in the area of the cache is very limited, but TTC service in the area is very good. The St. Clair streetcar passes right by the park, and if you don't feel like waiting for the streetcar, the St. Clair subway stations are only a couple of blocks away.
Update. As of August 4th 2012, the final for this cache had to be moved. If you find yourself at a large stump, you have the old coordinates. The new location is 55 metres away on a bearing of 115 degrees true. Note: there used to be a total of seven caches in the series, but due to various changes in some of the statue locations, two of the caches had to be archived. The coordinates on the first stages of all the remaining caches have been re-done to make it possible to continue locating all the remaining caches in the series.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
[stage] Ynzc cbfg, zrgny gnt ng tebhaq yriry..
[final] Unysjnl hc gur uvyy, gjb gerrf nobhg n zrger ncneg. Bar ynetr gerr, bar abg fb ynetr gerr. Ernpu va naq HC.