Medical Facility Mystery Cache
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Cache is NOT at posted Coordinates.
Cache is located at ground level. Parking is readily available but
make sure you park in designated visitor spots either at the cache
site or across the road.
Beware: Muggle traffic could be very high.
I was recently researching hospital/medical facility locations
in Sacramento when one of the addresses looked vaguely familiar.
Once I mapped it I realized that I had worked as a consultant for 4
years across the road at 7667 "whatever street name". But I'd never
known what the building across the road was.
What does that say about how focused our lives can be?
Solving this puzzle and finding the cache involves a little research, a process of elimination, some math, and that's about it.
Only TWO of these 800 numbers are valid numbers for medical services in Sacramento:
1-800-4-KAISER
1-800-4-SUTTER
1-800-4-MERCYG
1-800-4-UCDAVIS
1-800-4-SHRINER
If you take the last 6 digits of those phone numbers and split them
into two 3 digit numbers ABC-DEF and perform the following math
Subtract DEF from the minutes of the N 38 coordinate
Add 2 times ABC to the minutes of the W 121 coordinate
The resulting coordinates should put you in the parking lot of a medical facility associated with the name in the 800 number. The cache is at those coordinates.
Bring your own pen as cache container is pill bottle size.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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