County Line - Trinity Mystery Cache
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The cache is not located at the above listed coordinates. They take you approximately to the county line. You must first figure out the puzzle to Trinity County to find the REAL coordinates. This is the next in my series of county line caches. Safe parking is available for this regular sized treasure.
Over the past few years now I have traveled throughout the State with a new perspective. Not like I used to… before I would fly through little burgs and towns without taking a second look. I have always traveled for work but never took the time to “see” where I was going. I would hit a town do my work and go back to the hotel and sit in my room clicking the clicker until the wee hours of the morning.
Now, every new town I pass through is an awakening. I thrive on the new treasures I see… monuments I have whizzed by a hundred times in my life are now new nuggets of knowledge, vista points I passed without a blink are postcard images burned in my mind, and side streets of towns are secret treasures that only non tourists find. Geocaching has made me stop and smell the roses.
Hopefully, this little puzzle will help enlighten you on the County of Trinity and maybe make you “stop and smell the roses” too.
N 40° 38.ABC
A = Trinity County was one of the original counties of California, created in 185(A) at the time of statehood.
B = Parts of Trinity County were given to Klamath County in 1852 and to Humboldt County in 185(B). However, Klamath County ceased to exist in 1876 after it was dissolved due to corruption and wide spread electoral fraud.
C = The Trinity County Fair is typically held in August each year in the town of (C). Convert the first letter of the name of the town to its numerical counterpart for (C).
Checksum for North = 11
W 122° 44.DEF
D = The area's first recorded exploration was by Major Pierson P. Reading who discovered and named the Trinity River in 184(D). Thinking that the river emptied into the Pacific Ocean at Trinidad Bay, he named the river "Trinity," the English translation of "Trinidad. Four years later two miners, while looking for a way to the ocean discovered that the river flows into the Klamath River, not into the ocean at all.
E = The Jake Jackson Museum & History Center is located: 78(E) Main Street, Weaverville, CA 96093.
F = The town of Junction City in Trinity County has a zip code of 9604(F).
Checksum for West = 13
I would like to thank BIG BEAR for being my sponsor in the area for this cache.
Fun Tidbit of Additional Information:
The Wintu Indian tribe were the first humans to make the Trinity County area a permanent home hundreds or perhaps thousands of years before the first white men set foot in the North American continent. Deer and elk living along the Trinity River and its tributaries were plentiful, and provided food and clothing year round. In the summer there were plenty of berries and seeds to be harvested, and small game to be snared. Each autumn the salmon and steelhead making their annual run to upstream spawning areas were easy pickings, and acorns were bountiful.
The area mountains became known as the Trinity Alps when Mr. and Mrs. Anton Webber, who had traveled extensively in Europe, bought one of the old ranches in 1922, and established the Trinity Alps Resort on the Stuart Fork. The area mountains reminded them of the Austrian Alps the Webbers admired so much.
As always, enjoy.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Tbbtyr vf lbhe sevraq
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