Before anyone sends me a note that I have mis-spelt "Climie", the addition of the "b" is intentional...
Mt Climie is part of the Pakuratahi Forest in Upper Hutt, aptly named, it is a relentless climb of around 600 vertical metres over a horizontal distance of 4.4km. Allocate some time to do this one - most people should be able to do this in around 4 hours - longer if you carry on and do the bonus cache.
This is part of a series of caches around great Wellington hill climbs. You need to gather clues from each cache in the series in order to solve a final puzzle series, so make sure you take note of every piece of information you are asked to collect. You will need it for the final series.
At the published co-ordinates is an information board. This gives you the information to get to WP1.
WP1 can be found at:
S41 09. alpha bravo charlie E175 08. xray yankee zulu
where:
alpha = the number of animals in the information icons in the Mangaroa Forest
bravo = the second digit of the elevation of "North Climie"
charlie = the maximum number of hours you would be expected to complete Mt Climie Track, according to the board
xray = the second digit of the elevation of "Climie No 2"
yankee = xray
zulu = the number of small triangles on the Mt Climie Track
checksum: alpha + bravo + charlie + xray + yankee + zulu = 22
At WP2, there is a cylindrical object with a label on the southern side. There is one alphanumeric and one numeric character in the orange section of the label. KK = the alphanumeric characters, LL = the numeric characters
The final cache can be found at:
S41 delta echo. foxtrot golf hotel E 175 sierra tango. uniform victor whisky
where:
delta = the second digit of LL
echo = the third digit of LL
foxtrot = the fourth digit of LL
golf = the third digit of LL / the fourth digit of LL
hotel = the sum of the first digit of KK and the fourth digit of LL
sierra = delta
tango = the first digit of KK x the first digit of LL
uniform = the second digit of LL
victor = the fourth digit of LL
whisky = victor
checksum: delta + echo + foxtrot + golf + hotel + sierra + tango + uniform + victor + whisky = 32
The cache container is a camo'd 200ml sistema with a log book only. Please bring your own pen. You can reach the cache from the path.