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Let's Get Personal! Mystery Cache

Hidden : 6/29/2009
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Cache is a small lock-n-lock with room for a few small trade items. Travel bugs and coins always welcome. Wear bug spray when it is bug season. No night caching - area is closed! This should be winter accessible for the most part.

Cache is not at the above coordinates!!!!!

Sometimes to find a cache you have to climb trees, or wade in a swamp or even race a bunch of crazy cachers to a cache miles away, but this might be the hardest cache of all.

You will have to reveal your age and weight!  Well, not really, you will just need to write it down on paper. Seriously, no one will see it but you! Honest... unless you leave it out on your computer desk, of course.

To find the coordinates for this cache here is what you need to do.

First, get some paper, you will need more than a scrap of it. Now, write down the year you were born, all 4 digits. 1802 ... for example.

Take that number and arrange it so it goes in descending order and under it arrange it in ascending order and then subtract the smaller number from the larger. Use zeros if necessary so you always have 4 digits. Using the 1802 example you would have.

  8210
 -0128

Take the answer you get and continue to do the same procedure until you get the very same answer twice in a row. This might take several times, up to 10 even.

Take that final answer and add the digits together.

Now take the number you got when you added them together and multiply it by 38.  The answer = the XXX in:

 N43 05.XXX

Now write down what you weigh... no cheating!!  If you are a real lightweight and weigh less than 100 pounds, add a zero to the beginning - for instance 97 pounds will be 097.

Now do the same thing with this number you did with the the previous number.  For instance:

  970
 -079

Keep going until you get the same answer twice in a row again.

Don't forget to use zeros if you need to to keep it 3 digits.

Now with this number ....just add one of my favorite numbers to it #177 - (I love 7's) and the new number you get = ZZZ in:

 W077 28.ZZZ

That's it - since you were good and honest about all that personal stuff, go find the cache!!

Congrats to hjathome for the FTF!

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