This is a mystery cache and is not at the posted coordinates.
There are five caches in the Missed DiRectiθn series. Each of the first four caches contains a clue to the final cache location. Record each of the clues and use them to determine the Final mystery cache of the series.
The caches in this series are:
GC45K32 - Missed DiRectiθn #1: The Foot
GC44NBR - Missed DiRectiθn #2: The Yard
GC45K39 - Missed DiRectiθn #3: The Meter
GC45K3F - Missed DiRectiθn #4: The Smoot
GC45K3P - Missed DiRectiθn #5: The Final
Like the third in this series, this puzzle construct is different from any other I have seen. The geocheck is integrated into the puzzle and to reach the correct solution will require you to enter coordinates. Incorrect answers will provide clues embedded on the geocheck response. This is intentional. I can think of two methods you can use to solve it, one being significantly more efficient than the other. As I said, we'll see how it goes.
Just a short smoot away now!...
The Smoot
The smoot is a nonstandard unit of length, whose origin was part of an MIT prank in October 1958. Oliver Smoot was a fraternity pledge who was used by his fraternity brothers to measure the length of the Harvard Bridge connecting Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Smoot was made to lay on the bridge, his height determining the unit length and marked on the sidewalk. He was then was literally carried to the next spot, marked and so on, until the entire length of the bridge was measured at 364.4 smoots. It is not known whether alcohol was involved. Not surprisingly, Smoot graduated from MIT and later became chairman of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and president of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
In the MIT alumni community, this unit lives on. It would seem there are some MIT graduates working at Google... Leave it to those wacky zany engineering students at MIT! What WILL they come up with next? The smoot is a unit of length defined to be equal to 67 inches, or 1.7018 meters.
Interesting trivia don't you think? Ok, time to start checking.
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