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Old Panther Lake Elementary School (OPLE) Multi-Cache

This cache has been archived.

Terrible Ts: They have cleaned out the area around GZ and it appears the cache has been removed. I wasn't real happy with this cache, so I am going to archive it.

Thanks to all the finders.

Terrible Ts

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Hidden : 5/15/2010
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Cache is not at the listed coordinates. There is a nice mural there that you will have to collect some info from to get the location of the final. This mural was designed by the students.

Partial view of mural you are looking for.

Mural

The original Panther Lake Elementary School is located on the southwest corner of 208th & Benson (108th SE). The original part of the school was built during 1938-39. After several decades of educating children from this location, the school shut down after the 2008-09 school year. Last June was the last time the school operated from its historical location.

What will happen to the old site?

With a shiny new namesake opened around the corner, the OPLE sits empty these days. But if floodwaters rise this winter, the old school will be pressed back into service to house students from schools in the flood zone. The district never mothballed the building because of the possibility of flooding. The building's boiler was inspected and a full cleaning was performed on the building, including carpets, just in case it would be needed.

OPLE has been identified in the district's continuation of instruction plans to host students from Kent Elementary and Neely-O'Brien Elementary in the case that those school have to be closed due to flooding.

The OPLE site is divided into two different zoning types in King County. A 4 acre portion located at the corner of 208th & Benson Rd/108th SE that is currently zoned for Commercial Business. The rest of the OPLE site is zoned R-12. R-12 zoning means 12 "dwelling units" are allowed per acre.

We have been driving by here for years and it is nice to see some kids out playing on the equipment and in the fields, although not nearly as many as when the school was in full use.

At the mural, in the upper left corner there are four math problems.

 A = Take the lower right (pink) answer
 B = Take the top left pink answer and subtract it from the lower left blue answer
 C = Add the two blue answers together and subtract the top left pink answer from it.
 D = Add the two pink answers together and subtract 3.

On the right hand side of the mural there is a hopscotch pattern:

 E = Starting number.
 F = Take the top rightmost number.
 G = Take the largest number.
 H = Take the number in the middle of the pattern.</>

The cache is located at N 47 2A.BCD W 122 1E.FGH

Congratulations to WindingPath for the FTF.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Purpxfhz: svsgl sbhe. Svany: Gb gur yrsg bs gjb mreb fvk mreb mreb.

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)