The Big One Mystery Cache
montiy: Archiving this series to make room for other cachers to use this area. I'm having a hard time keeping this series maintained well.
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The coordinates provided for this cache will NOT lead you to the spot where the cache is located. Rather, they are the coordinates for the entrance to Chippewa Park, where you will need to search for eight other caches (which will provide you with numbers that will help you to figure out the coordinates for The Big One).
The Big One is a large, five-gallon bucket cache originally stocked with large cache stash (and a logbook). There is also a first-to-find prize -- two packages of geocaching tattoos.
Before you leave for your adventure, be sure to bring along a notebook in which you can keep track of some information. It's also a good idea to print out the description of this geocache and take it with you, in order to be able to use it as reference.
In order to locate The Big One, you will need to find the eight caches located in the woods behind Chippewa Park (see list below). Enter the park at the coordinates provided here, and find all eight caches.
I would recommend that you search for the caches in the following order:
1) The Slightly Larger One
2) The Littlest One
3) The Little One
4) The Littler One
5) The Not-So-Little One
6) The Tiny One
7) The Even Larger One
8) The Larger One
ON THE INSIDE OF THE TOP OF EACH CACHE, there will be one or more numbers written. Keep track of which number(s) you find inside each cache, and (upon finding all eight caches) you will use the numbers to complete the following coordinates:
N 40° A.BCD
W 80° E.FGH
The letters in the above coordinates are represented by the numbers you find inside the following caches:
A = The Larger One
B = The Little One
C = The Littler One
D = The Littlest One
E = The Even Larger One
F = The Tiny One
G = The Not-So-Little One
H = The Slightly Larger One
Upon figuring out the coordinates for The Big One, you may proceed to that final bonus cache...and engage in your search for your long-awaited bounty. (You won't be able to get to The Big One from the roadway; you'll need to find a trail into the area. The cache is placed on private property with permission of the landowner. Please do not cache here at night...Thanks! When you reach the general area of The Big One, you'll have to go a little way off the main trail to find it.)
ENJOY THE HUNT!
[NOTE: If you happen upon anyone who claims you're not allowed to be down here, please kindly (seriously...do it kindly) let them know that I (the cache owner) did call the landowners (an older couple that owns all of this land down here) to ask permission to place the caches and to have people come down to look for them. The landowners did mention to me that there are some local people who "keep an eye on things for them" down here...and that, if questioned by those people, you should just let them know that this HAS been arranged with permission from the landowners. Thanks!]
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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Treasures
You'll collect a digital Treasure from one of these collections when you find and log this geocache:
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