The cache is not at the location given above!
Solve the puzzle below to locate the actual coordinates of the ammo can. This cache is in an area which may be closed during periods of extreme drought. Check with the forest service if you are in doubt if the forest is open or closed.
1. (_) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ has great wave-like dunes of gypsum covering 276 square miles of desert.
2. _ (_) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Impressed by the white clouds slipping by at almost ground level, it was a young Englishman who chose the name of this village, meaning a “cloud in a field”.
3. _ _ _ (_) _ _ _ Oldest building in this town still uses water power to grind flour, Dowlin’s Historic Old Mill
4. _ _ (_) _ _ (_) _ _ _ State Park, an oasis where water flows year round and ferns cling to sides of mossy rocks is in an area known as Dog Canyon.
5. _ _ _ _ (_) (_) _ _ _ _ The county seat of Otero County.
6. _ (_) _ _ _ _ _ _ (_) _ This village shares its name with a state capitol.
7. _ _ (_) _ _ _ (_) (_) _ Jarilla Junction changed its name to this when a gold nugget the size of a man’s finger was discovered in 1905.
8. _, _ (_) _ The area in square miles of Otero County. (Numbers remain the same.)
9. _ _ _ (_) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (_) _ _ _ located in the lumbering pines of the Sacramento Mountains, with a magnificent view of Lake Mescalero and Sierra Blanca, is home to a Fine Arts Gallery and an Exhibition Hall Gallery with original works of Mescalero Apache Artists.
Replace the letters above with their position in the alphabet. For positions greater than 10 use the “units” digit. For example since “O” is the fifteenth letter it becomes a 5. Since the answer to #8 is a number no change is necessary.
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