Flat Jack Goes Camping Mystery Cache
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The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates! To find
this cache, you will need to solve for:
N 44° 19. MON TUE WED
W 089° 1 THU. FRI SAT SUN
This is a family friendly puzzle that can be solved at home or
while at the park using a map available at the office. The
final should be accessible with a short hike from the family or
group campgrounds.
You may be familiar with the children’s' book character
“Flat Stanley” Lambchop, who is flattened paper-thin by
a bulletin board. He soon is sliding under doors and visiting his
friends by mail. But this story is about me, Flat Stanley’s
lesser-known cousin, Flat Jack Foundit. I came upon a similar fate
when I tried to squeeze between two rocks while geocaching. My new
shape makes it a challenge for me to cache by myself, but I still
love to hide them! I'm also quite the happy camper!
(click the image to download a larger PDF version of the map from
the WDNR website)
Hartman Creek State Park is one of my favorite places to go camping
with my geobuddy BakRdz and his family. Besides fishing and hiking
(and making S'mores of course!), my favorite activity while
camping is visiting other campers. On a recent weeklong camping
trip, I spent a LOT of time going from campsite to campsite meeting
new people and collecting swag for a geocache that I placed
somewhere in the park. To get the coordinates for that cache,
you'll need to trace the route I took to visit each site. (I
didn't use roads. I like to bushwhack straight to the
campsite.) Using the family campground map, if you connect the
sites in the order I visited them each day - sort of like connect
the dots - you should discover the missing numbers in the
coordinates.
On Monday I visited sites
82 –> 94 –> 95 –> 57 –> 62
–> 66 –> 16 –> 83 –>
57
Tuesday I visited 72 –>
87 –> 9 –> 69
Wednesday I visited 38 –>
40 –> 45 –> 48 –> 51 –> 95
–> 94 –> 78 –> 35 –>
38
Thursday I visited 34 –>
32 –> 28 –> 26 –> 79 –> 80
–> 20 –> 14 –> 87 –>
63
Friday I visited 53 –> 33
–> 46 –> 96
Saturday I visited 78 –>
27 –> 25 –> 22 –> 97 –>
86
...and on Sunday I visited sites
85 –> 100 –> 98 –> 81 –> 23
–> 19 –> 86 –> 58
Good luck...and happy camping!
NOTE:A Geocache
Notification Form has been submitted to Park Manager Michael D.
Bergum of the Wisconsin DNR. Geocaches placed on Wisconsin
Department of Natural Resource managed lands require permission by
means of a notification form. Please print out a paper copy of the
notification form, fill in all required information, then submit it
to the land manager. The DNR Notification form and land manager
information can be obtained at:
http://www.wi-geocaching.com/hiding.
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