This is the Scout Campsite Series. Please record the information on the cover of the container to unlock the final cache (GC5XC25, will be published soon) of the series.
Tung Tsz Scout Centre (洞梓童軍中心 or TTSC) is one of the 7 famous Scout campsites in Hong Kong. It is located at the southern side of the Pat Sin Leng ridge and Plover Cove (Shuen Wan Hoi, 船灣海) is at the southeast of the campsite. It is one of the most common site for Scout training and other camping activities.
The campsite has dormitories which can accomodate maximum 136 campers, and with a quota of 175 campers camping in their own tents. There is a hall, two lecture rooms and two activity rooms for holding activities, courses, lecture or conferences. There is a canteen which can serve 200 campers at a time, but wild camp campers usually cook in their camp areas using their own cooking utensils and stoves. Pioneering, one of the most favourite activities of the scouts, is also available in TTSC. There is a swimming pool in the campsite and the campers can make use of it in the summer (July to August only).
Surrounding the campsite, there are quite a number of good places to explore. To the North, the ridge north at the campsite joins Wong Leng (639m) of the Pat Sin Leng ridge. To the East, you can go to Tai Mei Tuk for barbecue, cycling and have a good view at the Plover Cove Reservoir. To the South, you may go to Ma Shi Chau to visit the famous Permian Tolo Harbour Formation outcrops and the folding rocks there, and do some geocaching and earth cache. To the west, Sha Lo Tung and Cloudy Hill (Kau Lung Hang Shan) are also famous places for hikers to go. Fung Yuen is also a very famous place for you to meet some butterflies.
The cache is not at the lister coordinate, you have to solve the following problems to find the coordinate of the GZ.
Mountaineering Skill is one of the essential skills for Scouts. Through expeditions (or simple hiking or related activities), Scouts build up their physical and mental strength for future challenges. They also build up confidences and team spirits with their teams. They also learn the relationship between human and the nature and the importance of respecting the nature. Therefore, expedition is an excellent training for a scout to become a better man.
There are a lot of resources to learn about mountaineering, also, many geocachers are professional hikers, therefore the following questions won't be difficult, right?
Please solve the following questions:
A. Using the Naismith's rule, estimate the time (in minutes) needed for an average person to hike along a 200m path and ascended 20m along the path, you may assume his gears are very light. (Take: 4km/h for going forward and 400m/h for going up.)
B. How many UTM grid zones does Hong Kong lie in?
C: How many MGRS grid zones does Hong Kong lie in?
D. How many kinds of different "North"s may take into account when you are using a UTM system to find your direction?
The 8 digit GR, in UTM&MGRS system, is as follows. (Yes, GR, not lat long, please be careful not go to the wrong place. The reason using GR here is GR is the most common expression of a location between scouts, also this traditional expression is commonly used in Hong Kong, hope you still remember how to measure it, but remember to get a piece of map copy of the surrounding area.)
Okay, the 8 digit GR is expressed here:
50Q KK !@#$ %^&*
!=C-D
@=D-B
#=(BxD)+@
$=(C/B)-!
%=&
^=#
&=A+B
*=B+D
Hope you enjoy.
Please be stealthy and put the container back to the place.
You can check your answers, if you can convert it from UTM GR to Lat Long, for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.