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Nancy Greene's Reign Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 1/17/2010
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Nancy Greene's Reign

This cache is available in winter! This cache is not at the posted coordinates!

Welcome to the Nancy Greene Summit, which is now also called Strawberry Pass, which is what it was called in the days before Nancy Greene’s reign as an Olympic champion, winning both Silver and Gold medals...This is the highest point between Rossland and Nancy Greene Lake (go figure).

Red Mountain has produced two Olympic downhill skiing champions, Nancy Greene Raine and Kerrin-Lee Gartner. To find this cache, you will need to research one quick fact ahead of time on each of these people.

Both of these women won medals in downhill ski racing. Nancy Greene Raine is now a senator and is closely linked to the development of the Sun Peaks Resort, and Kerrin Lee-Gartner devotes her time to a number of charitable causes, and will be reporting for the BBC during the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.

 

To find the Northing coordinates, answer this question:

 

In what year did Nancy Greene win a gold and silver medal at the Grenoble Olympics?

 

If you say 1976, use N 49° 12.268’

If you say 1968, use N 49° 12.244’

If you say 1956, use N 49° 12.212’

 

To find the Westing coordinates, answer this question:

 

In what year did Kerrin Lee-Gartner win a gold medal at the Albertville Olympics?

 

If you say 1988, use W 117° 53.552’

if you say 2000, use W 117° 53.811’

If you say 1992, use W 117° 53.647’

 

There are NO caches at two of the locations for each answer I’d be happy to check your answers before you go out, although a simple Google will have you headed in the right direction. Have fun! Included as a FTF prize is one of our new Pathtags or a FTF pin.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)