History
Venosta, Quebec is a small hamlet located between Low and
Kazabazua. It was named after Venosta, Scotland by John Macauley in
1867. Back then, new settlers received 100 acres of land. In 1893
the Ottawa and Gatineau Valley railway extended the Maniwaki
subdivision to Venosta. Residents and visitors alike enjoyed
passenger rail service until 1963. 23 years later the rail bed
north of Wakefield was abandoned by the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Since then the tracks have been converted into a nice trail. The
old Venosta train station still stands several hundred meters south
of the posted coordinates and is now privately owned; please don't
bother the residents.
Cache Details
This is an offset cache. A physical container is not located at
the posted coordinates. Instead, the actual cache container is
located a specific distance away (less than 1/2 kilometer) from the
posted coordinates along a specific bearing. To determine the
distance and bearing you will need to measure the perimeter of the
rectangular parking lot near by. The parking lot is enclosed by a
green fence. I measured it by recording waypoints at the corner
fence posts and calculating the distance between the waypoints.
Since the accuracy of GPS receivers is not perfect I am
including a few checks to ensure that my measurements match yours.
Let's assume that the length of the parking lot is greater than the
width. The digital root (sum of the digits) of the width is 7. The
digital root of the length is 9. The digital root of the perimeter
is 5. The area of the parking lot is divisible by 72.
The distance in meters from the posted coordinates to the cache
can be found by adding 1 to the product of the perimeter of the
parking lot and the square root of the width of the parking
lot.
distance in meters = (perimeter * sqrt(width)) +
1
The bearing relative to true north in mils from the posted
coordinates to the cache can be found by multiplying the perimeter
by 50 and adding 78 to the result.
bearing in mils = (perimeter * 50) +
78
The cache is a small camouflaged lock-and-lock container with
room for the log and a couple of small travel bugs and geocoins. It
isn't big enough for a pen/pencil, so bring your own. It is located
just a few meters off of the trail. Stay on the trail until you are
very close to the cache. Do not hop the fence or walk through any
nearby fields.