It’s a Disc (not Frisbee®) Golf Course Multi-Cache
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It’s a Disc (not Frisbee®) Golf Course
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Olympia has a new disc golf course. You have options: toss a disc or frisbee around the course, go after this cache, or do both. Par for each of the holes is 3.
Let me know if you actually toss a disc or Frisbee® as you do the cache. The first two people doing so will get a special gift of a commemorative frisbee from me. State that you completed the course in your log and also give your total score.
The following information is from Wikipedia.
HISTORY:
“Disc golf, in some form, has probably been played since the early 1900s. But modern day disc golf started in the late 60's, when it seems to have been invented in many places and by many people at the same time. For example, George Sappenfield, a Californian, realized that golf would be a lot of fun if played with Frisbees®. He set up an object course for kids to play on. The early Frisbee® Golf Courses were ‘Object Courses’ using anything from lamp poles to fire hydrants as targets and begin to crop up in the Midwest and East Coast. A year later Sappenfield introduced the game to many other Frisbee® players. Many of them brought the game back to the U.C. Berkeley campus. It quickly became popular and they laid out a permanent course in 1970.”
EXPLANATION:
“Disc Golf is a sport in which individual players throw a flying disc into a basket or sometimes at a target. According to the Professional Disc Golf Association, ‘The object of the game is to traverse a course from beginning to end in the fewest number of throws of the disc.’
“Disc golf is similar to traditional golf and uses much of the same rules and terminology. Unlike ball golf, most courses are located in public parks and are usually free to play. The modern disc golf target consists of a metal basket with chains hanging over it and was invented in 1976.
“The flying discs used in play are very similar to the frisbee. However, a golf disc is much smaller than the traditional frisbee. Also, a frisbee has a rounded, flatter edge whereas a disc golf disc typically has a beveled edge. A golf disc has the potential to be thrown much farther than a typical, rounded frisbee and is not designed to be catchable.
“Disc golf is sometimes called ‘frisbee golf’, ‘folf’, or ‘frolf’ (a combination of frisbee and golf made popular by a reference on Seinfeld). Despite how common the terms may be, all of these are misnomers. The name ‘frisbee’ is trademarked to the toy manufacturer Wham-o. Within the discing community, it is also generally agreed upon that ‘frisbee’ refers to a disc engineered to be catchable. Applying the term ‘frisbee’ to all disc sports is not correct for both reasons. The generic label ‘golf disc’ stems from ‘flying disc.’”
HOW TO FIND THE CACHE:
Go to each set of coordinates listed below. At each of those sites you will see a basket with the obvious number to place in the blank. When you have completed that, substitute numbers for letters for the final coordinates.
The given coordinates are for tee 1 to get you on the correct trail to locate the baskets.
A = ____ - found at N 47° 02.577 / W 122° 56.442
B = ____ - found at N 47° 02.568 / W 122° 56.450
C = ____ = T - S
D = ____ = W + X
E = ____ - found at N 47° 02.634 / W 122° 56.665
F = ____ = Z - Y
S = ____ - found at N 47° 02.665 / W 122° 56.671
T = ____ - found at N 47° 02.677 / W 122° 56.496
W = ____ - found at N 47° 02.675 / W 122° 56.585
X = ____ - found at N 47° 02.667 / W 122° 56.644
Y = ____ - found at N 47° 02.499 / W 122° 56.392
Z = ____ - found at N 47° 02.486 / W 122° 56.436
The cache will be found at
N 47° 02.ABC
W 122° 56.DEF
Enjoy your hunt!
Additional Hints
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