Most suburbs have concrete laneways between houses that allow pedestrians to access parks and open spaces and to efficiently traverse the suburb.
Due to the hilly nature of Fadden, many of these laneways are actually long sets of steps. Your mission is to find the them, count the number of flights of steps and the number of steps in each flight.
After you have exercised your body, exercise your brain and use the info you have gathered to tease a set of co-ordinates from the attached grid.
Now just to make it a bit harder and in case I missed a set, not every set of steps I found is required. To help you find the ones needed, I have included a unique feature you will find on or near each set of steps that identifies it as one you need. Each unique feature is something I found there, not something I have hidden there. In addition to this, if you find the right 10 sets of steps then the total number of steps will add up to the number in the cache title and the total number of flights will have a checksum of 13.
Definitions:
- A set of steps is one or more flights of steps joined by any length of concrete footpath, starting by a roadside, but not always ending by one.
- A flight of steps is one or more contiguous steps.
- A step is something you step up onto, you must count the top step of each flight. If you step up six times, there are six steps in the flight.
All the steps you need to find are in public through ways. You will find many houses with their own sets of steps running adjacent to their driveways. These are not to be considered valid sets of steps as they are on private land. If you look, you will find sets of steps in Gowrie. These are not to be considered. All of the steps you are looking for are in Fadden (see attached map).
Unique features:
- Observe an M in green
- Observe a sign white yellow green
- Observe SV between 2 flights
- Observe 3631 in silver
- Observe 4 squares and 1 circle in front of a fence
- Observe 8 bolts no longer attached to anything
- Observe SV on a step
- Observe STAS 2001 in concrete
- Observe 4 squares and 1 circle standing alone
- Observe 3500 in silver
Thanks to Zytheran for his opinions and advice.
First to Find honours (with assistance) and the unactivated geocoin go to AlanBegado. First to find without assistance Captain Tomato and SecretSquirrel-BJC.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.
It is worth noting that AlanBegado probably would have solved it without my help if I hadn't made a few errors in the formation of this cache.