MoleBusters: Lisdowney Mystery Cache

The MoleBusters tracked the Mystery Mole on his recent foray through Canada and the United States using new Garmin GPSrs and mapping software. Tracking the Mystery Mole was accomplished quite easily as the MoleBusters Team encompasses a mole loving Bloodhound.

The Mystery Mole spent several days exploring and tunneling in each of following 9 locations.

In order to solve this puzzle, you must understand the Mystery Mole's travelling methodology and ascertain the correct chronological order the Mystery Mole visited each location. Simply assign a different numerical value (1-9) to each of the locations listed below. Naturally, the first location that the Mystery Mole visited will be assigned 1 and so on. The destinations are listed in alphabetical order for your convenience. Once you have assigned a different numerical value for each location (1-9), substitute that value in the equation for each location and seek the cache.

The City of Dillon is approximately 1066 km from the posted coordinates and has a total area of 12.5 km². Dillon lies in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina.

Eagle Nest is approximately 403 km from the posted coordinates and is located within the Adirondack Park in New York State. Eagle Nest is a great camp built at Blue Mountain Lake by the famous architect William G. Distin for Walter Hochschild in 1937.

Fort Irwin Ontario is located approximately 161 km from the posted coordinates on the Haliburton Lake Road in close proximity to Algonquin Park.

Hudson Highlands State Park is approximately 529 km from the posted coordinates in New York State. The park is an undeveloped preserve, and offers a fishing and boating area. The park has 40 kms of hiking trails, including mountaintop trails with awesome views of the Hudson and the Hudson Highland Range. The Appalachian Trail also runs through Hudson Highland State Park.

Meaher State Park is approximately 1657 km from the posted coordinates and is located in Spanish Fort, Alabama. The park is accessed from the Battleship Parkway, also known locally as the Mobile Bay Causeway. The 5.37 km² facility is located on an island located at the north end of the bay and surrounded by wetlands of the Mobile Bay estuary

Possum Kingdom State Park is approximately 2068 km from the posted coordinates and is located in Palo Pinto County, Texas. It covers approximately 6.2 km², and lies in the Palo Pinto Mountains and Brazos River Valley of Texas.

The City of Selma is approximately 3484 km from the posted coordinates and is located in Fresno County, California. Selma owes its beginnings to farming and to the route of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The route of the Southern Pacific through California's Central Valley gave rise to a string of small towns between Sacramento and Bakersfield and Selma was among them.

The Town of St-Aubert is approximately 802 km from the posted coordinates and is located in Quebec. St-Aubert is a small quaint town where members of the Group of Seven Artists often painted in the 1930s and 1940s.

Trap Pond State Park is approximately 685 km from the posted coordinates and is a 8.5 km² state park located near Laurel, Delaware. it is one of the largest surviving fragments of what was once an extensive wetland in what is now southwestern Sussex County. The state park features an extensive patch of second-growth baldcypress trees.