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OTTE: Final Mystery Cache

Hidden : 3/18/2015
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   large (large)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is NOT at the above coordinates

The above coordinates mark the main entrance to O'Neill Regional Park. To find out where the cache is located and how to find it, please see the details below. It is somewhere within O'Neill Regional Park. Parking can be found about 250 feet from the cache.

You can find this cache at N 33° 39.A28 W 117° 36.C69


The numbers for A, B, C, and D can be found on the front page of the log book for the other 4 OTTE caches within O'Neill Regional park. Each cache contains a letter from above which corresponds to a number given to you on the log book. If you've already found all the caches, you may need to go back and take a closer look.

Please do not give away the location of this cache. It's top secret. Let other's enjoy the hunt just as much as you did. Now, for the regular cache description:

O'Neill Trail To Eagle (OTTE)

You are about to embark on an epic five stage geocaching adventure across O'Neill Regional Park. Each site contains a geocache, your reward, for exploring the park. Each site was constructed, designed, built, and installed by myself and several volunteers over the span of a few weeks. In total, almost 500 man hours of planning went into this geocaching course to bring people to O'Neill Regional Park to explore and to have fun. I hope you enjoy your visit to O'Neill Regional Park. Happy Caching!

If you are new to geocaching, then welcome to the hobby! This course contains five different geocache sites. You can complete them in any order you want.

Because geocaching can be hard for new geocachers, I've designed this course so that everyone can find them. To do so, I needed a way to make sure the cache would not get stolen. For your connivence, the combination questions are listed on the bottom of each OTTE geocache webpage.

While geocaching in the park it is very important you obey all the signs. All the geocaches in this course are located in the Day Use only section of O'Neill Regional Park. Please do not attempt them after dark. Also, dogs ARE allowed in the park, but only on designated trails. Not all of these geocaches are dog friendly, so please pay close attention to the attribute section of each OTTE geocache on their individual webpage.

You are looking for elevated Trex® boxes, about 3-4 feet high, with padlocks. Inside contains the geocache, and goodies. There are two containers inside the boxes. Please do NOT take anything inside the small circular container as this is part of the geocache. You can trade with anything inside the larger container. Please trade equally. In order to obtain the combination, you must answer three questions at each site. These questions can be found the OTTE geocache webpage or the combination information flyer which will soon be available at the O'Neill Regional Park Nature Center.

Now go outdoors and enjoy O'Neil Regional Park! I use multi-million dollar satellites to find Tupperware containers in the woods. What's you're hobby?

Combination Questions:

1st digit - The number of years that Andrew and Anna Hoffman raised their family and live on this land for. Then add eight to your answer.

2ed digit - The number of their youngest children that went with the Hoffmans when they moved from Live Oak Canyon to Santa Ana. Plus the quantity of number of fives in the year that this occurred.

3rd digit - Add up all the individual numbers from the years included in this plaque. Then subtract six.

Eagle Scout Project
Adam Margolis
Troop 787 from Mission Viejo, California
March 2015

Cache placed with permission with O'Neill Park Rangers

Contact Information for O'Neill Park: travis.martz@ocparks.com

Contact Information Regarding this cache: bluesnote@msn.com

Additional Hints (No hints available.)