The Goal:
In this cache adventure you play the role of hapless Cachehiker
of the Galaxy. You're swept up in this great adventure where you
are seeking the ultimate question of questions to the answer you
unfortunately now know, 42.
The Quest:
As cachehiker, if you accept to persue this adventure, you will
need to cachehike the “Great Caching Galaxy” and hitch a ride on
six unsuspecting caches. You will progress through your journey by
utilizing your whit, your towel and your Guide “The Cachehiker’s
Guide to the Caching Galaxy”, or more commonly known to us
cachehikers as geocaching.com and its portible cousin, the GPS…
The Perils:
Along your adventure you will face great perils but “Don’t
Panic”, the caches you hitch a ride on are full of muggles but they
are listed in your Guide as “Mostly Harmless”. But you must try to
avoid them otherwise they may kick you off the cache and destroy
your only avenue in hitching to your goal. The Warning: Be
forewarned, much of the contributions (or what we call logs) to the
Guide are made on a strictly ad-hoc basis. “With the permanent
staff more likely to be on a lunch break than working, “most of the
actual work got done by any passing stranger who happened to wander
into the “caches” on an afternoon and saw something worth doing."
This has led to the Guide being patchy in its coverage, cobbled
together and though it cannot hope to be useful or informative on
all matters, it does make the reassuring claim that where it is
inaccurate, it is at least definitively inaccurate. In cases of
major discrepancy it was always reality that's got it wrong.” So
trust your Guide/PGPS or trust your instincts – its up to you and
its all you have… well, except for the numerous directions
below…
The Instructions:
Below you will find a list of six unsuspecting caches that you
must hitch a ride on. You will be presented with a list of six
waypoint coordinates, a list of six caches to hitch, and a list of
six clues. Don’t Panic, the six waypoints are all in close
proximity although the final cache site is a bit more than 5 miles
away near another popular Tiger Point complex similar to the
waypoint site so beware of the travel distance. So get your Bable
Fish and use the CacheHiker’s Guide’s information and scribblings
below to help make sense of your quest and to guide you along your
quest.
(1)Go to first Waypoint
(2)Take # retrieved from Waypoint, Go to this Cache #
(3)Take Waypoint # (not retrieved #), Place it in the empty
space in the cache name - Some #'s will be converted to (L)etters
(A=1...) (Go to next waypoint, go to step 2)
(4)Go to Geocaching.com; look up all of the Caches and retrieve
their names. Please note that this may require an extra trip home
by you to look up this information. There is a library nearby the
first waypoints that you could use; when it is open of course (and
it also has a cache inside!).
(5)Go to first clue
(6)Match clue with cache name
(7)Hitch a ride on that cache and retrieve the specified two
numbers from the cache's coordinates - (N) AB° CD.EFG (W) HIJ°
KL.MNO
(8)Place these numbers in the final cache's coordinates empty
spaces, starting at the beginning (Go to next clue, go to step
6)
The WayPoints:
(WayPoint # 1)N 30° 21.474 W 087° 10.694 (L)
(2)N 30° 21.410 W 087° 10.687 (L)
(3)N 30° 21.453 W 087° 10.640 (#)
(4)N 30° 21.471 W 087° 10.638 (#)
(5)N 30° 21.475 W 087° 10.669 (#)
(6)N 30° 21.455 W 087° 10.660 (L)
The Caches: (Note: you will not need to physically go to these
caches. You'll need to retrieve a portion of their coordinates from
www.geocaching.com which all together will build the final cache’s
coordinates.)
(Cache #1)GC1M_N6
(2)GCN_W3
(3)GCH_43
(4)GC1_WGT
(5)GCPT_1
(6)GCPT_G
The Clues:
(Clue # 1)Somebody who can stay in control of virtually any
situation is somebody who is said to know where his or her towel
is. “What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the
length and breadth of the “caching” galaxy, rough it, slum it,
struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where
his towel “(or the cache)” is, is clearly a man to be reckoned
with.” (KL)
(2)“The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a
surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a
double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the
'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long
and thanks for all the fish.” (DE)
(3)“Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and
calm. "The Answer to the Great Question, of Life, the Universe and
Everything" (FG)
(4)Where would you find the following: 0-330-25864-8? (IJ)
(5)“[The CacheHiker's Guide to the Galaxy] looked insanely
complicated, and this was one of the reasons why the snug plastic
cover it fitted into had the words DON'T PANIC printed on it in
large friendly letters.” (LM)
(6)“He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him
with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not
quite, entirely unlike tea.” (CD)
The FINAL CACHE COORDINATES: N _ _° _ _.3 _ _ W 0 _ _° _ _.6 _
_
The Cache:
The cache is a well stocked cammo painted ammo box. I plan to
keep this cache well stocked with good kid-friendly items so bring
items ready to trade. I hope you enjoy the challenge and the find.
Please review the cache as its contents provide additional
information pertaining to the cache and its original contents.
FTF: Gelugon & Scificollector
You can check your answers for this puzzle on
Geochecker.com.