The Other Fort Bragg Multi-Cache
Sagefox: I just don't seem to find the motivation to restore this cache. I think it is too much work for people from out of town to do and I have since concentrated my efforts at placing several other local caches. Thanks to all previous visitors.
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Everyone knows about Fort Bragg, North Carolina near Fayetteville, home of the 82nd Airborne Division. Fort Bragg, CA citizens know about Fort Bragg, NC but does anyone in Fayetteville/Fort Bragg, NC know about Fort Bragg, CA, population 6500?
The connection between these two entities is that both were named in honor of Captain Braxton Bragg of the pre civil war U.S Army and later General in the Army of the Confederacy. In a small effort to bridge this information gap a travel bug with a hitch hiker “Skunky” representing the California & Western Railroad Skunk Train will attempt a cross county journey from this cache to Fayetville, NC to bring word of its unknown sister city.
For more Fort Bragg, CA information and history here is the link to the community’s web site: www.fortbragg.com/
Now to work. This is a three site multicache. First step is to assemble and decode the coordinates for a second site. At the second site you will be given numbers to adjust the coordinates to get you to the final cache site that contains a standard size cache with Fort Bragg souvenirs and other goodies.
To begin you need to print out the Code Assembly Grid and Sign List. Just click on these items in the Images section below and print them before you leave home.
The coordinates on this cache page will take you to a public parking lot. From there go south on foot to Laurel Street for a short walk through downtown. You will be looking for signs at the addresses listed below. When you get to each address choose the primary business sign unless otherwise instructed. Each address below is followed by a series of numbers and blanks that represent the letters of the sign. Write the letters of the sign over the numbers and blanks then transpose those letters that are over numbers to the corresponding number in the Code Assembly Grid.
Once you complete this exercise you will have the coordinates for the second cache site. What, you can’t make sense out of the jumble of letters? Did I forget to tell you that decoding is necessary? The last sign purposely places you directly in front of the best coffee house on the Mendocino coast so you can go in, get a cappuccino and work out your puzzle.
The decoded coordinates will take you to a location where you need to find a Mr. J. Potter. He has a couple of numbers for you. You don’t need to cross private property to get to Potter’s place. Find the pastel towers and a gateway will be revealed. You can drive through during business hours.
For the coordinates to the final cache site you will need to do some math calculations with the two numbers you’ve just collected.
1. Add the individual digits of Potter’s first number together. Result will be a two-digit number.
2. Add 311 to that number.
3. Add that result to the final three digits of the SECOND site LATITUDE for your adjusted final cache coordinate.
4. Add the individual digits of Potter’s second number together. Result will be a two-digit number.
2. Add 330 to that number.
3. Add that result to the final three digits of the SECOND site LONGITUDE for your adjusted final cache coordinate.
Now you have the coordinates to the FINAL cache site.
To compensate for the sometimes extreme variations in gpsr readings and to show that I am not completely sadistic, the final coordinates will take you near a single fence post. The number you collected from the foundation at City Hall on Franklin Street (not to be confused with Town Hall on Main Street) will now be useful. Add the individual numbers together and that will be the distance, in feet, due north from the fence post to the cache. If all your work has been correct then you just found the cache!
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[This line added to make the decryption code print out on the cache page sheet)
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