Willow Flat Mystery Cache
Craftea's Archives: I'm incredibly sad to let this one go but it's time.
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Final coordinates are: N48 10.ABC W122 DE.FGH
N45 36.569 W121 31.230 is the approximate location my Grandparents lived when I was growing up. My brother and I spent a lot of time here, running in the orchards, and in my brother’s case, testing how many times he can touch the electric fence before passing out.
Count up the number of letters to the answers of these questions:
What is the name of the town they lived in (nearest)?
What is the name of the county the town is in?
What state is the town in?
Then add that to the answers to these questions:
What is the nearest highway going south (numbers only)?
What is the nearest highway going north (numbers only)?
If you removed 161 people from a square mile of this town, what would the population density be?
This number equals: ABC
My Grandparents married and settled there (in 1937) because my Grandma’s Dad offered my cowboy Grandpa half his orchard (10 acres) if he’d stop ranching and marry his daughter and settle down as an orchardist. My Grandpa agreed, but always referred to the place as the “Ranch”. They tore up all the cherry trees after one of the workers electrocuted himself by moving his aluminum ladder without taking in the extension. Touched a hot wire and down he went. They stuck with pears and peaches after that.
If you look up the stats of this town, you’ll see that the ancestry is: German (12.9%), English (??.?%), Irish (7.8%), United States (7.1%), Scottish (4.5%), Dutch (3.8%).
What percentage is English? That answer will be DE. (Hint: the answer is NOT 63.9%)
My favorite memories of the place involved being both indoors and outside. My brother, still in single digits in age, was allowed to drive the tractor, with me inside the scoop. We were free to explore anywhere we wanted. With what seemed like miles and miles of trees, we learned to pay attention to what direction we were going in so we could find our way home. Inside, our Grandma (who died in 1980) kept flour and sugar in specially made drawers. We’d make a terrific mess out of it, playing in the ingredients. Grandma would leave the kitchen and just tell us to clean up our mess when we were done. That was half the fun because she had a canister vacuum that would suck up every last particle, as well as leave whoppers of hickies on our tummies and faces. Not to mention make the most amusing noise when it caught just a corner of a mouth.
If you take 83 feet off the elevation of the town they lived in, you’ll have FGH. The answers to most these questions can be found at one site. If the info about ancestry matches up, you know you’re at the right spot. Otherwise, your answers may be different, in which case you won’t get accurate coords.
Someone I don’t know lives there at the Ranch now, but my memories of that place will live in my heart forever. The memories of my Grandparents are treasures to me as well. I hope you enjoy finding the treasure I hid, in memory of Willow Flat Rd, even though the final coordinates will take you no where near it, it made me feel closer by hiding it and creating the puzzle.
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." – Galileo
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