Tracks Mystery Cache
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Interesting, but is it "real"?!
The listed coordinates are not the location for the hide; they do represent a very interesting location that must be visited to find clues to the cache location.
As a confirmed "bushwhacker", I frequently find myself following faint animal trails through the woods. If you take the time to look (and are not too set on going in a straight-line where you want to go), these tracks are often the best route through difficult terrain and vegetation. Following them frequently requires a lot of ducking and some winding about, but if you're patient, a reasonable route can usually be found.
That's not really the case here, but there are certainly signs that would indicate that at least one deer has been here before you!
There are also signs that other people have been here before you. This combination of animal and people "tracks" got me to thinking about what kind of tracks I am leaving. This can be a "heavy" question, or maybe it doesn't have to be! We each leave tracks whenever we influence the people and the world around us. The deer that strolled through here just at the right (or wrong) time to leave indelible marks upon a human tribute to some of our own trail-blazers, had no idea of what he or she was doing. He was just doing what deer do. We, on the other hand, may need to consider the legacy that we each are leaving. To solve this puzzle, you must use information available at the site, or online, to track the deer to the cache location.
Here are the steps:
1. Think like a deer
2. Count Bambi's visible footprints: # Footprints = A.
3. Estimate how many footprints he would have left on the central brick area: # Missing Footprints = B.
4. Assume that he travels 6 inches with each Footprint.
5. Estimate the distance to WP2 as Z steps, where Z = 28 X A X B steps
6. Convert to distance by multiplying by one-half foot per step.
7. The bearing to WP2 is the direction that Bambi arrived from, based on his first print on the concrete.
8. Visit that location (WP2) to find a bison with directions to the final
9. Proceed the distance and direction listed in the bison.
10. Visit that location and find the cache.
11. If all of the above is too difficult or confusing, you can go straight to the final using the "human" approach:
To get the latitude: Sum together the digits of the year of the first honoree on the bricks. Multiply by six and subtract this number from the published latitude.
To get the longitude, sum the digits for the year when the first honoree on the bricks learned to fly. Multiply this by 2.8 and add it to the published longitude.
Go out and make some tracks of your own!
Thanks (or blame) goes to Shaddow for suggestions on clarifying these directions!
FTF honors go to georaider, ivywoman and qaz!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
JC1: pebgpu bs napvrag sehvg
Svany: arne gvc bs "Y" naq pebffvat
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