The cache is located in Earl Legacy Park in Bedford, headquarters of the Bedford Cross Country Ski Club. The park is open dawn to dusk, so no night caching. Listed coordinates are for parking. Solve the puzzle below at your desk so you know where to search! A trail map is available here.
MAMD is now a "big dog" with 10,000+ finds, but early in her caching career, she found some other caches in this park. One was our adopted multi-cache Bendo Hunt. You will need to research information about that caching day to solve this cache.
MAMD is not only a prolific cache finder but also a prolific cache hider with four hundred eighty-three hides as of 18 January 2012! Moreover, she is good at encouraging others to hide caches as is evidenced by a now-archived cache in this same park, LEARN TO EARN RIDDLE BROOKE by TheSmokingMonkeys. You will also need to read that cache page to solve this 10K Tribute cache.
b=483: Number of hides by MAMD as of 18 January 2012 (Update on 4/12/2017: Please use 483 for b in this puzzle. The number has actually increased since this cache was placed, presumably due to MAMD adopting old caches which needed new owners, but to correctly solve the puzzle, use b=483.)
c=9: Total number of caches/events that MAMD found on the day she found "LEARN TO EARN RIDDLE BROOKE"(Update on 10/3/2021: Please use 9 for c in this puzzle. Finding this number is much more difficult than it used to be, so we will give you this one, too!)
d: Total number of caches that MAMD found on the day she found "Bendo Hunt"
u: Bendo Hunt was find number what for MAMD? (Hint: the number is in her cache log.)
v: How many people were part of TheSmokingMonkeys when they hid "LEARN TO EARN RIDDLE BROOKE"?
w: The number of the month in which MAMD found "LEARN TO EARN RIDDLE BROOKE"
x: The number of the month in which MAMD found "Bendo Hunt"
y: The last two digits of the year in which MAMD found "Bendo Hunt"
Now you need to perform some calculations, remembering the Order of Operations (PEMDAS).
Cache is located at N 42 57.RAH W 071 3T.ENK where
RAH = [u * (v + w)] + x + y
TENK = [(b - v) / (x - w)] * c * d
You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.
Congratulations to MAMD! "RAH for your TEN K!"