Throw You A Curve - Union Mystery Cache
Throw You A Curve - Union
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The cache IS NOT at the posted location. This is merely the best point at which to begin your journey.
With this cache... I'm throwing you a curve - several of them actually. In order to find this cache.. you will have to take an almost 8 mile drive down a curvy country highway... taking special note of the recommended speed limits on each of the curves and the actual speed limit on the road.
Living out in the country town of Labadie... I have ample opportunity to drive the beautiful and exciting country highways of Franklin county that curve this way and that way between hills and valleys and homes and farms. There's often no way to get from here to there except to follow these roads. And if you like to drive as much as I do... then you learn to love these roads.
This particular road, Highway V, is one that I drive from end to end... both directions... at least three times a week. There are farms, homes and a few small businesses along the way... and once you get to the edge of Union, there is also the Franklin county jail. Depending on the time of year... there are beautiful fields full of crops or wonderfully colorful trees to be seen. There is always the possibility of catching a glimpse of hawks, turkey, vultures, raccoons, possum, owls, skunks and deer along this stretch of country highway as well.
In order to find the location of this cache... you will have to hop in your car and begin your journey at the coordinates at the top of the page... and head down Highway V towards Union. Take note of the recommended speed limit on the signs warning about each of the curves or sets of curves along this beautiful stretch of road. For safety's sake... I recommend doing this as a team with one person driving and another taking the notes. These signs all have a diamond-shaped sign on top imprinted with an arrow in the approximate shape of the curves... and a rectangular-shaped sign below indicating the recommended speed at which you should take the curves (See the sample image below this paragraph). These numbers on the bottom signs are the ones you want to write down.
Note: This only includes the 24 signs facing you as you drive towards Union. None of the signs facing the other way are taken into account... and they sometimes have different values.
- Once you have taken note of all the speed recommendations on the 24 signs along this road... add them all together. Call this three-digit number A.
- Add all of the digits of A together. If this does not equal a one-digit number... then repeat this process until it does. Call this single digit B.
- Take special note of the actual speed limit on this road, as indicated on the standard white signs with the black print. Call this number C.
- Take the minutes of the original north coordinates (29.951) and subtract (((A x 3) - 418) / 1000). This will be the north minutes of the final coordinates.
- Concatenate BC into one number. That is... if B=8 and C=50... then BC=850. Take the minutes of the original west coordinates (54.053) and add (((BC x 7) + 394) / 1000). This will be the west minutes of the final coordinates.
You will pass within 1,000 feet of the cache container while making note of the signs. If you can't park closer than 50 feet from the cache... then you probably aren't in the right location. The entire trek from beginning to final cache should be done in less than half an hour.
Congratulations on FTF goes to benedictjams! Way to keep at it 'til you found it!
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(Decrypt)
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