Holy Air Multi-Cache
HikeWithUsFamily: Have moved out of the area. Since I'm in town for the holidays, I'm picking them up and archiving these to make room for new caches from local cachers who can maintain them. Thanks for all the fun NoVa caching crew!
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A quick multi with a bit of local history. A bit of a walk (originally published right after Thanksgiving to help get rid of that extra helping of stuffing...)
I’d long heard about people that breathe rarified air and looked down on the rest of us, but I never really gave much thought to where that saying might have come from. Did it originate from the Holy Air on Mount Olympus where the high and mighty ruled? Perhaps it was a reference to canned air? Nah, that can’t be it! There had to be a simpler explanation.
A quick scan of the dictionary shows a few definitions:
1. extremely high or elevated; lofty
2. of, belonging to, or appealing to an exclusive group
The combination of which brought me to thinking about air travel. While flying from coast to coast is a fairly commonplace occurrence these days, it was once the restricted purview of the social and economic elite. However, following WWII, when civilian aviation was able to apply the military research from the bomber programs to their new passenger aircraft, the capacity and efficiency of the aircraft increased significantly. As jets and turboprops became commonplace, the cost and availability of air travel became more commonplace.
To deal with the boom in commercial aviation in the DC area, the Washington Dulles International Airport was constructed. When it was finished it provided a regional gateway to air travel that couldn’t fit into National Airport in DC, enabling more and more people in the area to experience that rarified air travel experience.
To find this cache – you’ll need to do the following:
1) go to the posted coordinates.
2) Look for a sign
3) Take the last 2 digits of the first date on the sign, add them together and multiply by 3 to get A
(e.g. 1912 = 1+2 = 3 * 3 = 9)
4) Take the last two digits of the second date on the sign, add them together and multiply by 6 to get B
5) Final cache coordinates = cache latitude + A (as decimal minutes of latitude), cache longitude + B (as decimal minutes of longitude)
Note: When searching for the final – you’ll know you’ve gone too far if you pass the no trespassing sign, if you do that, turn around, the cache is on the public property close to the trail! (In other words, stay on the trail right of way and away from the private property!)
2nd note: I forgot to leave the pen and won't make it back out before this is published -- so byop!
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