Pacific University Multi Cache Multi-Cache
Pacific University Multi Cache
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Cache has been replaced, now a micro. Original container must have been too heavy and fell and the groundskeepers probably got to it. All that was left was the magnet and a piece of camo tape.
This is a 7-step multi cache around the campus of Pacific University in Forest Grove.
Pacific University has a long history and was not originally opened as a university.
Oregon's Pacific University is the oldest chartered university in the West. The Oregon Territorial Legislature granted its original charter as the Tualatin Academy on Sept. 26, 1849. The charter predates statehood by 10 years, and was the first formal act of the territorial government.
Pacific founders were also instrumental in the 1843 vote at Champoeg, which resulted in the formation of the Oregon Provisional Government, the first American government on the Pacific Coast.
The school traces its roots to a log cabin meeting house in Forest Grove where the Rev. Harvey Clark, a Congregationalist minister, and Tabitha Brown, a former teacher from Massachusetts, cared for and educated orphans of the Oregon Trail. The University issued the first baccalaureate degree in the region in 1863 to Harvey W. Scott, later the editor of The Oregonian. Pacific's Old College Hall, built in 1850, housed the original academy and is the oldest educational building in the West.
Today, Pacific is a comprehensive liberal arts and healthcare university with 3,200 graduate and undergraduate students attending classes at the original campus in Forest Grove, and campuses in Eugene, Hillsboro and Portland.
You will be taking a tour of some of the landmarks of this university by visiting six waypoints before heading to the final.
Waypoint 1: What year did Elizabeth Lee die? Let that year be ABCD. Add A+B+C+D+1 and call that EF.
Now go to N45 31.EF1 W123 06.6FF
Waypoint 2: What year did Allan Herndobler graduate? Let that year be GHJK. Now let LMNP = (GHJK - 737).
Now go to N45 3L.MNP W123 06.6JG
Waypoint 3: How many letters are there in the last name of the person this was dedicated to? Let that number =Q.
Let RS = (Q+15) and TU = (RS+3).
Now go to N45 31.RS1 W123 06.6TU
Waypoint 4: What year was the graduating class that erected this feature? Let that year be VWXY.
Now let Z=(V+W+X+Y)/11
Now go to N45 31.Z24 W123 06.(WXY-321)
Waypoint 5: If Korean, let $=1, if Vietnam, let $=2, if WWI, let $=3, and if WWII, let $=4.
Let ### = ($*150)+35
Now go to N45 31.$11 W123 06.###
Waypoint 6: Who was the artist that created this?
Let @@ be the numeric value of the first letter of the artist's first name and let &&& be the sum of the numeric values of all the letters of the artist's first and last names.
Let YYY = (@@-4)*@@ +9 and let ZZZ = (&&&*4)-10
Now go to N45 31.YYY W123 06.ZZZ
Waypoint 7: The Final: . Please be stealthy when searching this as this is a university and there are apt to be muggles at any time. Please make sure you attach it exactly the way it was so that it won't be muggled by students, maintenance or grounds people.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Zntargvp, FR pbeare bs gur jrfg bar, ybj.
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