You will not find this cache at the coordinates posted above.
Spirit and I ended the year 2007 with streak of 9 consecutive
DNFs. Could it be the spirits of Geocaching are trying to tell us
its time to hide a cache? Our New Year's resolution was not to seek
another cache before we hid one.
The cache is an “official geocache” container, approximately
6x4x2 inches. There is room only for very small trading items. It’s
initial contents are a log, a yet-to-be-activated TB, and some
small trinkets purchased at the Visitor’s Center gift shop at
Goddard Space Flight Center.
Hidden on public land in a very obvious place, less than 100 ft
from a trail, this should be a very easy find. But before you start
you will have to find the coordinates for the cache which can be
found in the irrational number Pi.
The latitude can be found in Pi somewhere between the
7,105,700th and the 7,105,799th digit to the right of the decimal
point.
The west longitude can be found between the 11,727,515th and the
11,727,614th digits. It probably sounds more difficult than it
is.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on
Geochecker.com.
The listed coordinates are for where we usually park when we
hike in this area. If you park here, you will have to walk about a
mile or two to get to and from the cache. There are probably places
to park that are closer to the cache, but don’t cheat yourself out
of a good walk.
If you find a closer place to park, do not mention it in your
log. We don’t want this cache thought of as a cache-and-dash.
(There is nothing wrong with C&D’ing but Spirit and I cache for
the hiking and want to encourage others to get out and hike.)
The trail can be muddy after a rain.
We expect this cache will be muggled when the weather gets
warmer since it is a very easy find. If and when this happens, we
will probably replace it with a film canister.
To free the area for future finds, we plan to archive the cache
2 years after it is found for the first time (16 January 2010).
One more thing: we made 5 or 6 trips to this area to evaluate it as
a cache site. Each time our signal was less than ideal. The
coordinates you find in Pi should get you within 30 to 50 ft of the
cache if not much closer. We will add a clue or possibly an offset
if people report any problems finding this cache.
Notes
Congratulations to _JohnnyCache and TripMD for their FTF (16
January 2008)!
11 November 2009: replaced container and log
Archive Date: 16 January 2010