The cache is NOT at the coordinates posted above. Those are of the International Concourse at Hartsfield Airport. If you have lots of frequent flyer miles you can start your journey there. If not, do your travelling in the matrix - in other words on the Web. I've posted the coordinates in decimal form to facilitate use of the Advanced Search feature of Mapquest. Just click on "Maps", then on "Latitude / Longitude". At each location you will have to zoom in or out to narrow or broaden the search. For indepth research on the locations I recommend starting with Google Search
A) Travel to 51.508325 / -0.128853
Find the statue commemorating a great hero. (1) What is the date of his birth? and (2) What is the date of both his greatest professional success and his greatest personal setback? (1) MMDDYYYY ____________ (2) MMDDYYYY __________
B) Journey to 48.857615 / 2.294838
Climb the stairs up this famous structure. Count the steps to the first level. Some sources say a restaurant named after the author of ATWIED is at that level, others say you have to go to the second level to eat there. You're nowhere near the top yet. How tall, in meters, is this structure? (3) The number of steps ______ (4) Height ________
C) Finally go to 45.076755 / 7.685827
A controversial linen religious relic includes the anglicized version of this city in it's name. In what year was that relic first publicly displayed? (5) YYYY ______ An international winter sporting event will take place there in 2006. In what year was this event first held? (6) YYYY _____
The cache is at N AB° CD.EFG' / W HI° JK.LMN'
where:
- A= second digit of the year in #5
- B= fourth digit of the date in #1, minus 5
- C= first digit of the date in #2
- D= third digit of #6, times 2
- E= third or fourth digit of the year in #5
- F= last digit of 3 in #3, divided by two
- G= last digit of the year in #6, divided by two
- H= the last digit of the date in #1
- I= the first digit of #4
- J= the last digit of the date in #2, minus one
- K= the second digit of the date in #6
- L= the second digit of the date in #5, squared
- M= the first digit of the year in #5
- N= the second digit of #3
The cache is located in this general area: Trail Map. It is only about 250' off a trail.
Note: This cache location has been graciously approved by the Chicopee Woods Nature Preserve. As the Preserve has limited the number and the location of geocaches please do not place your own cache here without first contacting me for further details. Thanks.
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