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The Well Spun-Around Cacher Challenge Mystery Cache

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Sapience Trek: Hello tenebrus -

As the issues with this cache have not been resolved, I must regretfully archive it.

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Hidden : 7/7/2011
Difficulty:
5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

You must meet the requirements listed below before logging an on-line find. From the IP (nano), project 342 true and look at the treeline.
This cache is a twist on The Well Travelled Cacher (bthomas) Challenge.


Please note that the nano at the IP is not inside the hole where the electric wires are. DO NOT REACH IN THERE – THE HINT MEANS SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY. The nano is, in fact, in plain sight!!

The objective of this challenge is to find a cache in each 3-degree sector from your chosen base coordinates all around the compass.

That's 120 caches, one each in the following angular intervals (degrees):

  • 0°–3°
  • 3°–6°
  • 6°–9°
  • ..., etc, etc, etc, ...
  • 354°–357°
  • 357°–360° = 0° (again)

Requirements:

  • Select a point to be the center of your circle. This does not need to be (nor should it be) your home coordinates. (It is both a violation of the terms of service for me to ask it and just an unwise idea to publish publicly your personal information.) Might I recommend your caching centroid?
  • Find a cache in each three-degree sector from your chosen coordinates all around the compass.
  • The honor system mostly applies. However, you should publish your chosen coordinates as well as that you develop a bookmark list or offer some semblance of proof. There are many available tools available on the website to verify your bearings. I have even made (I mean, adapted) a .gsk macro (in HTML/SQL) which is available (just email me); it will generate an HTML/SQL table that shows your progress. Note: while I personally adapted and tested this GSAK macro (from the Well Travelled macro) and I have personally hosted it on my site, you should always download any file at your own risk. (Also, to make it work using GSAK, set whatever coordinates you want as your center coordinates for the database, then install and run the macro. If you want to try new chosen coordinates, simply select new center coordinates for the database and run the macro again.)
  • It is preferred that you use true north for the purposes of this cache (as magnetic north offsets vary with location). However, a suppose that an argument could be made and a tool found which instead uses magnetic bearings. Should this be the case, please indicate the magnetic declination of the coordinates that you've chosen as your center AND help educate us by explaining in brief how you calculated your own verifications.
  • Log the find on-line after the physical container is found and the logsheet inside signed. (You may physically find the final and sign its log before completing the challenge online.)

Clarifications:

  • The posted coordinates are the actual coordinates for the cache.
  • Generally accepted rules, guidelines and conditions for logging a cache find apply. These must be bona fide caches listed on Geocaching.com that you have personally (physically) found and logged.
  • All cache types count as finds except for locationless caches. Note: "attended" and "webcam photo taken" will be considered equivalent to cache "found". (A word of caution: if you have found a grandfathered-type moving cache, it might be moved out of the sector that you think it's in.)
  • For the purposes of this challenge, the coordinates listed on the cache page will determine which sector interval that puzzle caches and multi caches are located in, not the coordinates of the actual physical cache.
  • The boundary of each three-degree sector in the challenge is determined by the angle from your chosen coordinates as determined by the GC.com website, or other Geocaching .gpx and SQL database manipulation tools.
  • While you may have others with you when you find the final cache, only those who have fulfilled ALL criteria for this cache will be allowed to log it as a find on-line. Find logs by other cachers will be deleted. However, please feel free to sign the log before you complete your challenge
  • The terrain rating on this cache page refers to the terrain of the final cache. (The actual difficulty of the final is much closer to 2.5, but the difficulty of the task is a 5 for sure.)
  • Remember that this is a game and is supposed to be fun!
  • Unlike the Well-Travelled Cacher, which uses your home coordinates, I have asked you to choose coordinates of your own liking for purposes of this cache. You need not choose your home coordinates to qualify for this cache; you may have more success in choosing other coordinates, especially for those of you who live close to a large body of water. Whatever you pick as your coordinates, you do need to post your choice for verification purposes.
  • Note: I reserve the privilege to log this cache as a find myself BUT ONLY UNDER THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS: that although I already qualify for this cache at the time of publication, I would only use cache finds after the publication of the cache as qualifying caches (that is, to complete the challenge another time in full – my third complete cycle) AND that I would make arrangements with another cacher to temporarily and informally "adopt" the cache, have posted that it will be moved on a specific date for me to actually achieve the act of "finding" it at its new and temporary location, and then I would have it returned to its proper placement. These extra requirements imposed solely on me, the cache owner, are meant to avoid the generally "bad" form of one logging one's own caches. Hopefully, these terms are deemed acceptable to the general geocaching public.

Acknowledgements to Kealia for the 'Well-Rounded Cacher' concept, to mjp303 for the 'Well-Travelled Cacher' concept, and to Lignumaqua for the GSAK macro source code that I adapted. BELOW is the code (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK), however, you will need to make modifications for it to work!!!. SPECIFICALLY, you will have to replace the bold black all-capital words with appropriate symbols in your .gsk file. It is written this way here to obviate geocaching.com's (improper) HTML parsing.


#*******************************************
# MacVersion = 1.0
# MacDescription = Well Spun Around
# MacAuthor = tenebrus (with a nod to Lignumaqua)
# MacFileName = WellSpunAround.gsk
# MacUrl =
#*******************************************
# Outputs table for challenge cache GC2N3QC

$count = 0
$_sql = ""
$link = "LESS-THAN-SIGNa href=''http://coord.info/"

WHILE $count LESS-THAN-SIGN 360
        IF $count GREATER-THAN-SIGN 1
                $_sql = $_sql + " UNION ALL "
        ENDIF
        $lower = NumToStr($count)
        $upper = NumToStr($count + 3)
        IF $count = 1
                $lower = "0"
        ENDIF
        $_sql = $_sql + "SELECT '$lower - $upper' as 'Angle Band', COUNT(*) as 'Total Finds', '$link' || code || '''GREATER-THAN-SIGN' || code || 'LESS-THAN-SIGN/aGREATER-THAN-SIGN' as 'Example' FROM caches WHERE found AND degrees GREATER-THAN-SIGN= $lower AND degrees LESS-THAN-SIGN $upper"
        $count = $count + 3
ENDWHILE

$status = Sqlite("sql",$_sql,"headings=yes")

# display the data

$html = SqlToHtml($status,"Well Spun Around","y")

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

jnlhcanab unfgur cebwrpgvba

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)