This is the seventh of ten in the Boxborough-Centric geocache series. A complete list of the BC series can be found here.
This is a puzzle cache. The listed coordinates are NOT for the cache, but they will get you to the best parking location at Boxborough’s Sargent Memorial Library.
This container is a large Bison Tube with a log and a clue for BC#10 Boxborough Centroid GC2DDCR. It is off the yellow trail, well down the hill from the cell tower which sits almost at the top of Hager Hill. Parking is available in the library parking lot. An alternative parking location is the Blanchard School just a few hundred yards west of the Library on Massachusetts Ave.
A trail map for the Hager Land can be found on the Town's website here. It indicates the parking options.
The Boxborough-Centric series is a collection of nine individual caches, each with a clue to the tenth. All are located in Boxborough, Mass. They will take you to some of the more interesting places in the town. Several of these caches will rely on information that can be found in a book called Boxborough: Portrait of a Town, published by a group of Town residents in 1983. A special copy of this book, reserved just for this cache series, can be found in Boxborough's Sargent Memorial Library. The librarians will show you where it is. Please do not mark it up. Bring a pen and paper with which to make notes because you cannot take this copy out. Or, for a cost, you may make copies of a few pages at a time in the library if you prefer. The library’s hours can be found on its website here. You need to find ALL the first nine caches with their respective clues to find BC#10 Boxborough Centroid GC2DDCR. You do not need to find them in order.
You will need a pen for the log, and paper on which to note the clue for BC#10 found in this cache.
SIGINT is military-speak for signals intelligence, or simply the gathering of intelligence by intercepting messages. Below are some examples of the forms that signals can take. What, you ask, does this have to do with Boxborough? Nothing, I say, except that this cache is located near a cell tower, and cell towers are a symbol for one of the most prolific forms of electronic SIGINT today. And, it gives me a great medium for encoding the information you will need for resolving this geocache. J
The following are instructions for locating the cache:
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Winter friendly. See maintenance note dated 3/23/22 for a photo hint if you have trouble.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com