You find yourself one hot summer day you are sitting on your
couch, bored wondering what there is to do.
TV you think? Nah, there is nothing on good to watch?
Book? No, I just read the last book of that series and I
don’t feel like starting a new one.
How about Geocaching? Maybe, but I’m getting tired of the
regular caches, if I’m going to go geocaching I want one that
is challenging. I wonder if there is anything new posted.
You go over to your computer and check the list of new caches.
Regular, regular, regular, hmm, nothing really that catches my
eye.
Wait, what is this? A new Mystery cache?
I’m going to see what is it. Maybe I can solve this
one?
You click on the cache and the web page comes up.
“Choose Your Own Cache”, the name reads.
Hmm this sounds interesting; I’ll give it a try.
What do I have to do?
The description reads:
Remember those choose your own adventure books that you enjoyed
when you were younger; the kind of books where you read a storyline
came to a choice and had to choose how to proceed and continue the
story? This is a cache based upon those books. This is how it
works. Starting with location ‘A’, and the coordinates
of this cache, you will find a washer with a letter written on each
side. Look at the letters and make a choice on which location to go
next. For example, at a certain location on one side of the washer
there would be an ‘X’ while on the other side there
would be a ‘Y’. Choose a letter and find it on the
table below to see what coordinates corresponds to that letter. Go
to those coordinates to find a new washer and make another choice.
If and when you make enough right choices, you will reach the end
and find a washer that does not have letters on each side, but
something else. (A good geocacher should recognize what it is.)
Follow what the last washer says and put together where the final
cache is located.
Table of
Locations
|
P
|
40 01.696
|
111 43.308
|
|
B
|
40 01.670
|
111 45.499
|
|
Y
|
40 01.246
|
111 43.740
|
|
E
|
40 01.630
|
111 44.412
|
|
U
|
40 01.246
|
111 44.362
|
|
C
|
40 03.083
|
111 43.613
|
|
G
|
40 00.945
|
111 44.810
|
|
H
|
40 00.865
|
111 44.254
|
|
J
|
40 02.985
|
111 45.125
|
|
A
|
40 02.651
|
111 42.982
|
|
L
|
40 02.642
|
111 44.005
|
|
M
|
40 02.570
|
111 43.513
|
|
W
|
40 01.585
|
111 44.910
|
|
R
|
40 01.925
|
111 45.713
|
|
O
|
40 02.361
|
111 45.258
|
|
Z
|
40 02.651
|
111 42.982
|
|
D
|
40 02.088
|
111 43.901
|
|
Q
|
40 02.164
|
111 44.451
|
|
K
|
40 02.394
|
111 43.802
|
|
F
|
40 02.215
|
111 44.783
|
|
S
|
40 01.672
|
111 42.659
|
|
I
|
40 03.446
|
111 44.036
|
|
V
|
40 03.141
|
111 43.103
|
|
T
|
40 02.611
|
111 44.533
|
|
X
|
40 03.143
|
111 44.006
|
|
N
|
40 02.084
|
111 44.129
|
Having read the description you jot down the letters and
coordinates, grab your trusty GPS unit and run out the door ready
to create your own adventure and CHOOSE YOUR OWN CACHE.
NOTE 1: To prevent cheating, some of the table coordinate sites
listed DO NOT have a washer. You can be sure though that each
letter found on a washer does lead to a site with another
washer.
NOTE 2: Some letters may look like others. For example, an "M"
could look like a "W" if held upside down. To be able to tell what
a letter is, there are little dots at the top of the letters
showing which way is up.
WARNING: This journey can be very long and time consuming with
lots of stops depending upon the choices you make. There is a
solution leading to a final cache. All coordinates are found within
the Payson area. Good Luck!!!