Ever had the pleasure of using the Lynnwood Park and Ride? One
would think its big enough for everyone. Wrong. Perhaps volume has
gone down a tiny bit due to the recession, but before 2009, if you
did not get to the Park and Ride by say 7:40 am in the morning on
Monday through Thursday, you were doomed.
That being said, another fun thing about trying to find a place
to park in this place is that it can really smell, especially the
closer you get to the freeway? Why? Its next to the City of
Lynnwood Lift and Pump Stations Number 10.
The Lynnwood wastewater collection system is comprised of
approximately 100 miles of piping. The Lift Station No. 10 Basin is
the City’s largest and includes the City Center area of the City.
It receives flow from all of the Scriber Creek Drainage basin and a
portion of the Swamp Creek Drainage Basin. On a dry day, about 2
mgd (million gallons per day) of wastewater go through here. The
capacity for this place is about 8 1/2 mgd. During wet times, this
value can exceed that, even further increasing the smell in the
area.
That's some of the reasoning behind the stench as you can
imagine, however you do not need to know any of that for this
cache. The coordinates will get you to a section of a walking trail
that runs south near I-5 (walking west will reach Scriber
Lake).
At the coordinates, you will see a bridge, walk south on it. How
many crisscrossing x shapes are there on both sides combined? (thus
each x = 1 and fyi, its the same # on both sides), let that value
be AB.
Continue walking past the bridge about 150 feet. There is a
large metal pole to your left (freeway side), the numbers and
letters are C-DEF where C is a letter in this case. Convert C to
its numerical equivalent (assuming A=0, B=1, etc etc)
also G equals A+E and H equals Fx2
The final is at North 47 48.BCD West 122 17.HGE. Check sum
B+C+D+H+G+E = 26
Please bring your own pen. Container is small, has enough room
for a log book and coins, that's about it. I should stress that
this cache multi starts at a park and ride thus be extra careful to
not be noticed.
Now I have all three types of caches if you are struggling to
find 3 types of caches from owners for various challenge caches.
Will probably list one more traditional cache so I have one of each
listed in 2009.