FRAPÉ | Yup, It's That Time Again Mystery Cache
Hidden : 4/11/2015
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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Geocache Description:

Fox River and Appleton Parks clean-up Event is upon us once more. And it's time again for another CITO related cache to commemorate the effort.

This is a relatively simple puzzle, meant for attendees of any of the participating organization members who might be taking the geocaching class in the afternoon. However, this is an S|S hide, meaning nothing is ever as it seems.

What better way to introduce the sport and this hide type than by presenting a quick history of Geocaching according to Wiki? Answer these few simple questions, substituting your numerical answers for the letters in the solution that follows.

According to the wiki page about Geocaching, the sport began when the first cache was placed on May G, 2000 and its coordinates were published on a Usenet newsgroup. The original cache was a container of E gals, but it has been replaced and resides near the permanent bronze marker that now marks the exact coordinates of the original. The related geocache presently has just over 8500 finds and over F000 favorite points.

Geocaching has its origins in an older form of treasure-hunting which has been around for 1I0 years. Over time the popularity of the modern GPS sport has lead to multiple variations of the game, styles of play and platforms, including Wherigos, Munzzees, Benchmarking, Geodashing, Terracaching, and the list goes on. The most fascinating of course is Stratocaching, combining near-space flight and geocaching. The first event took place on November 1B, 2013 in Prague where 10 caches and D "radioseeds" went up 19 miles into the stratosphere on a high altitude balloon and dropped for cachers to find when they fell back to earth.
Not to be outdone, an intrepid explorer managed to get a cache placed on the International Space Station and as of today, it has a total of H finds as and (according to the cache listing) hurdles around the earth at A7,J00 miles as hour.

Part of the thrill of the sport is that you play at your own pace and choose to find caches based on your comfort level and skill, which some people have pushed beyond their capability. In fact, there is no limit to the danger one can build into a cache since it is up to the individual to decided whether to go after it or not. It's actually a bit surprising that more deaths have not occurred as a result and some lives were actually saved by the presence of a cache which provided a location for rescue. There are of course widely reported incidents of "bomb scares" when uninformed individuals report suspicious activity or odd looking containers and these typically result in good field training exercises for bomb squads.

In the early days of the sport, you had to buy a GPS device from the likes Garmin which were gaining popularity with the hunting and outdoor enthusiast crowd, and given the expense, the following grew slowly over the first decade with owners of GPS tracking devices or people willing tho shuck out a couple hundred for one, until the advent of GPS-enabled smartphones. With the advent of cheap or free GPS apps and accurate smartphones the sport has exploded in recent years and today there are an estimated one and a half million active geocaches worldwide, and that's just the ones published on geocaching.com, the International Geocaching logo for which looks a lot like a C

Final Cords are: N44˚AB.CDE W88˚FG.HIJ

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