The Cache Is
Not At The Posted Coordinates
Good knots should be easy to tie as well as untie.
Figure out what the knots shown below are and use their
assigned numbers to get the coordinates for the cache.
Since paperless cachers probably won’t see the picture, here
are descriptions of the knots to solve the puzzle cache
without the picture.
1. A simple knot used as a stopper or to prevent unraveling at
the end of a line. Hard to untie.
2. A useful stopper knot and both less likely to slip and easier
to untie than number 1 above.
3. A temporary knot sometimes called a reef knot. Often confused
with a granny knot.
4. Also called a becket bend
5. Less well known than 4 above, this is less likely to slip and
easier to untie.
6. A rabbit comes out of his hole, goes around the tree and back
down his hole.
7. Used to tie-up to a pole, piling or other round object. Both
ends must be pulled tight.
8. This knot is designed to roll around a tree to hold a temporary
guy, to drag or winch a log, or to lift it with a boom hoist.
9. A handy knot to slide up a line and not slip down. Good for
tightening tent lines, climbing trees and crevasse rescue.
10. Used to shorten a line that is too long. Used as a ‘test’ in
the movie Jaws.
To find the cache, first find the old locaton at:
(sheet bend) (clove hitch) (figure eight) (bowline)
(sheepshank – carrick bend – timber hitch + square knot)
(carrick bend) (timber hitch)
(overhand) (figure eight) (figure eight) (overhand) (carrick bend)
(bowline) (timber hitch) (square knot)
BUT WAIT, YOU'RE NOT DONE! This only gives you the old final which
we can now use as a reference point.
You can check this reference point at
Geochecker.com.
THEN ON TO THE CURRENT BUT TEMPORARY FINAL:
Subtract .175 from the old latitude and subtract .206 from the
longitude.
To double check this, you should get check sums of 37 and 29
3/2/2010: Also raised difficulty to 3.5 due to the additional
calculation to get the final coords.