Find your way around an orienteering course to obtain clues to unlock the final cache. Set in Moncton's Centennial Park utilizing the permanent orienteering course established by Orienteering New Brunswick.
The geocache at the listed coordinates contains another locked container. To obtain the combination for the lock, you will need to complete a short orienteering course in the park. It is only after completing the course that you will find the combination and be able to access the logbook. This course will take 30-90 minutes to complete depending on whether you walk or run.
Orienteering is all about using a highly detailed topographical map to find the most efficient route around a course defined by a set sequence of controls. Competitors in the sport are individually timed for the whole course, and the fastest orienteer wins. Each control is precisely plotted on the map and has an associated control description, giving the relation to the particular topographical feature on which it has been placed, so the orienteer knows what to look for. They are not hidden, but are easy to find if you are in the right place. Each control visit is verified, typically by punching a gridded card, or electronically.
The skill is not in finding the controls, but in planning the best route to take on each leg to each control on the course. Elevation, physical boundaries, runability, and navigability are all taken into account.
Orienteering Controls in Centennial Park: There is a permanent orienteering course in Centennial Park available for public use. This geocaching orienteering course uses 10 of the many permanent orienteering controls established in the park by Orienteering New Brunswick. Each control is a metal marker plate posted at least 3 m above ground on the north side of trees and poles. On each marker plate is a letter and a number. You need to retrieve the numbers from the 10 plaques to access the log.
The objective of this geocache is an exercise in route choice, so it is strongly advised that you use the Centennial Park orienteering map for the permanent course. There are several laminated copies of the map inside the geocache container, or you can print the map that is attached to this cache listing. Note that the map is aligned to magnetic north. If you use one of the maps that are in the container, please return them when you are finished for another person to use.
COURSE LENGTH: 2.3 km (minimum). CLIMB: 75 metres
All of the controls in the park are shown on the map as circles, each with a unique identifying letter. The control is located in the centre of the circle. The start is shown on the map as a triangle; the finish as a double circle. In this case, Start and Finish are the same and so the triangle and double circle are superimposed. Note that there is no control at the Start/Finish.
| Sequence |
Map |
Feature |
Number |
| Start |
Triangle |
Vegetation boundary |
N/A |
| 1 |
A |
Post, northernmost |
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| 2 |
B |
Post |
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| 3 |
C |
Tree |
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| 4 |
D |
Path, bend |
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| 5 |
E |
Distinct tree |
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| 6 |
F |
Vegetation boundary |
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| 7 |
G |
Path-Path junction |
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| 8 |
H |
Tree, southside of trail |
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| 9 |
J |
Trail-Trail junction |
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| 10 |
K |
Knoll |
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| Finish |
Double circle |
Vegetation boundary |
N/A |
Once you have found all 10 controls, you can use the numbers from those controls to discover the combination to the lock on the container that holds the logbook. You can ignore the letters that are written on the plaques, as they are not used for this cache. The combination can be solved using the numbers you have written down as follows:
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First digit
A+B+C
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Second digit
F-E-D
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Third digit
H-G
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Fourth digit
J-K
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Please ensure you lock the logbook and return the map to the cache container when you are finished.
For the first 8 cachers who complete this geocache, you will find in the final container a card that entitles you to come to another orienteering event to try for free. Please only take one per geocache username.
Have fun on the course and please let us know in your log what you thought of orienteering.
For more information on orienteering in New Brunswick, please visit the Orienteering New Brunswick website or contact heathtree at hj@orienteering.nb.ca.
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