This cache is located in Calvert Cliffs State Park and is park approved. Calvert Cliffs State Park is located in Lusby, MD 14 miles south of Prince Frederick just off Route 2-4. The above coordinates take you to the parking area just off Camp Conoy Road.
This cache is based off of the video games Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. You do not need to buy either of the games to find the cache, but some research online may be necessary if you aren’t familiar with the games.
The Pokémon games have been around since their North American debut as Pokémon Red and Blue in September of 1998. In these games, you played a young Pokémon trainer whose goal was to capture and train as many Pokémon as you could, a goal that was simply expressed in the theme song of the animated TV series as “Gotta catch ‘em all!” However, you can also battle other Pokémon trainers, using the Pokémon you have collected to defeat all of your opponent's Pokémon. Thus, another challenge the game presented was to reach and defeat the trainers of the Pokémon League. The Diamond and Pearl games continue the tradition of Red and Blue, challenging players to explore the world of Sinnoh collecting new Pokémon and battling Sinnoh League trainers.
The challenge that Diamond and Pearl present forms the basis of the puzzle that you must solve to find this cache. It is a two-stage multi-cache, but you must first solve a puzzle to find the first stage of the cache. Every Pokémon in the game has an index number so to speak. To determine the coordinates to the first stage of this multi-cache, you will need to know the index numbers of some of the Sinnoh Pokémon.
The coordinates to stage 1 are:
N 38° AB.CDE
W 076° FG.HJK
A = Grotle
B = Chimchar
C = Grotle
D = Empolean
E = Turtwig
F = Grotle
G = Monferno
H = Piplup
J = Turtwig
K = Torterra
In the stage 1 container you will find the coordinates to the final stage; the prize so to speak. Happy caching!
You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.