The case of the missing cache was troubling Sherlock Holmes. Addressing his faithful assistant, Dr Watson, the great detective explained:
“Snow covered ground is usually an easy way to track criminals, but my suspicion is that the person who has hidden this cache did so before the snow came. Practically speaking it is probably someone with a brilliant mind who we are after, since nobody has been able to find the cache so far. However, on its own, less one forgets, this theory, however good, isn’t going to find that cache without lots of hard sleuthing. Krakow, the case of the stolen cache, which we helped our detective friends on the continent solve, was similar to this one.”
It was obvious Holmes was onto something, as he continued:
“He’ll take one detective mastermind to catch, assuming that it is a man. Crass he maybe, but my belief is that with my insight into the criminal mind we’ll soon have the whereabouts of the cache. He’ll take two of us to find, or at least to find the missing cache. He’ll take two of us to apprehend, assuming that he is where the cache is. Nearly half of the crimes we investigate can be solved quite quickly, but this one is going to take us a little longer.”
With that, Holmes and Watson left the house with their GPSr, which had inexplicably managed to travel back through time, and were heading for the cache location. An observer overheard Watson asking Holmes how he managed to solve the puzzle so quickly, with the enigmatic but familiar answer coming back, ‘It’s elementary my dear Watson’. Can you follow in their footsteps?
You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.
During a recent maintenance visit (29-12-2018) we took some new coordinate readings. Whilst the hint should get you to the hiding place it might be helpful to add 0.005 to the solved (in the checker) northings and 0.012 to the westings.