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No Stinkin' Tolls Mystery Cache

Hidden : 10/3/2004
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

I try to travel from West to East on Bay Bridges and I parked outside Baylands Park for our recent BADGES picnic. In other words, I don't like paying those Stinkin' Tolls. Anyway, if I did care about tolls, the following toll schedule might be of interest.

CDE = x + y - z

Bay Bridge

Roundtrip

December 1, 1936,

3PM

driver only

x (in cents)

Golden Gate Bridge

Northbound

December 1, 1937, dawn

11 pedestrians

y (in cents)

Longest suspension bridge in America

East bound

 

May 24,1883,

twilight

Pedestrian

z (in cents)

F

Dumbarton Bridge

Westbound

September 1, 2004, 8AM

3 occupants in auto

(in cents)

G = s + t

San Mateo

Westbound

October 29, 2004,

8AM

1 occupants in auto with FasTrak

s (in dollars)

Benecia

Northbound

January 1, 2004, noon

3 occupants in auto w/o FasTrak

t (in dollars)

HIJ

New Paltz – Little Falls

Westbound

October 4, 2006,

2PM

SUV Cachemobile - Cash

(in cents)

AB

MTC

Round and round

whenever

master BATAs

# + 13

The cache is located at:

N37 AB.CDE W122 FG.HIJ

The log-only microcache is conveniently located. There are at least three different access approaches, minimum terrain rating for the easiest is currently 2*.

Sanity check (all 15 digits) = 49

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

znt-'arg-vx

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)