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Secret Ping-Pong Table Downtown Multi-Cache

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Dogliest: There have been too many homeless people hanging out at GZ to keep this one going. Maybe someone else can make a good cache here.

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Hidden : 2/7/2016
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Of all the outdoor activities available on the downtown "Park Strip" in Anchorage -- fields, softball, hockey, tennis, gardening, horseshoes, volleyball -- there is also geocaching and a secret outdoor ping pong table! It turns out this secret ping pong table was specifically built with encoded directions to a hidden cache....

This is a two step cache designed to draw you to an interesting feature in an Anchorage city park. The cache is located just a few minutes walk from listed coordinates.

1.   The first step is to follow the given coordinates to a little-known outdoor table tennis or "ping-pong" table that is easy to spot. The table's net will tell you where the cache is hidden.

            a. The first row of net holes tells you the compass heading to the cache
                 (Number of holes in first row) x (1.5 degrees) = compass heading in degrees

            b. The rest of the holes in the net (excluding the first row) = number of feet away the cache is hidden.

2.  Then travel to the revealed location, either by fancy GPS operation, old-style orienteering with compass and pacing, or just a mix of common sense and geosense. The film canister cache is hidden in a classic favorite hidey place, so once you are close to it, the find will not be hard. If you can't travel straight to the cache, you can figure out the bearing first, then go to an unblocked path and pace off the distance parallel to your bearing.

(History lesson - a "mile" was originally a thousand "paces" of a Roman army on a level road. The average Roman soldier -- very fit young adult man -- had about a 2.5 foot step and about a 5 foot pace. Modern older adults are probably closer to 2 feet per step).

You can check your final location coords (to see if it is within 25 feet of the cache) on GeoChecker.com.


Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)