Lost - The Swan Traditional Cache
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This series of caches is dedicated to Lost. Take the hike to Sawyer Park to find these caches. Terrain is very rocky, with some steep climbs. The views are spectacular.
The Swan station was of course THE HATCH that dominated Seasons 1 and 2. It housed a computer with a very specific set of instructions – the numbers 4-8-15-16-23-42 must be entered every 108 minutes. The Swan was built over a vaguely defined electromagnetic anomaly that was threatening enough that one-time Swan resident Desmond Hume believed he was “saving the world”.
The station was created in response to “the incident” in 1977, when a Dharma scientist drilled too deeply into the anomaly. Or the anomaly was caused by Juliet blowing up the core of the Hydrogen bomb right next to the anomaly – it still isn’t clear.
In 2004, when Desmond neglected to enter the numbers, some sort of electromagnetic spike occurred, causing Oceanic 815 to crash. After the survivors entered The Swan, Desmond abandoned his post for a time, only to come back to help Locke put an end to the button-pushing. As the station underwent some sort of meltdown, Desmond turned a fail-safe key, which made the station implode, the sky go purple, and Desmond psychic.
For all that, we still don’t know anything specific about the energy being kept in check, or why the fail-safe key couldn’t have been turned earlier, as – beyond the destruction of the station – there were no real consequences to it being turned.
Additionally, Kelvin Inman appeared to have been recruited to the station after the purge, and the Dharma Initiative was still resupplying the station in 2004, so The Swan station still provides a link between the contemporary events on the Island and the mysterious organization.
You're looking for a large ammo can. There is an unactivated FTF coin for the lucky first finder.
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