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Waterfront Trail @ Lasalle Park Mystery Cache

Hidden : 3/14/2016
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Welcome to the Waterfront Trail Pavilion, at Lasalle Park.

Use the reference point to make your way to the Waterfront Trail Pavilion.  Here you will collect the information required to find the geocache at the final location.  The cache is a small round Lock and Lock, nicely tucked away.  


The Waterfront Trail currently connects 1,400 kilometers of Wonderful Ontario Waterfront and is still growing!

The Trail connects Ontario residents and visitors a like to natural areas, parks, cultural sites, main streets and attractions from the Town of Lakeshore (Essex County) to the Ontario-Quebec provincial border including: 

2 Great Lakes; 3 bi-national rivers; 3 UNESCO Biospheres; 68 communities; 19 Provincial Parks; 3 National Parks, including Canada’s first National Urban Park; 15 National Historical Sites; 325 municipal parks; 58 conservation areas; 90 beaches, including 8 Blue Flag-awarded beaches; 3 major wine regions; 25 historical village main streets; 10 Bicycle Friendly Communities; 16 Ontario by Bike (formerly Welcome Cyclists) Network Regions; 427 businesses designated as bike-friendly; 8 international border crossings; and over 40 major connecting trails. 

 


Find the following information, in and around the Waterfront Trail Pavilion and substitute the numbers into the following: 

N 43 1 A . B C D    W 079 E F . G H I

A = The birthday “Anne Maxwell, the world’s best wife, mother and Nana” was celebrating (digital root of the two digits) 

B = The original number of acres that originally made up Wabasso Park (subtract 55) (Sign is gone B = 2)

C = Find “Bill and Letty Smeaton”, the first digit, of their 2 digit anniversary number (_ _ th)

D = The Day in December (2009) that the Trans Canada Trail welcomed the Olympic Flame to Burlington (subtract 17) (Sign is gone D = 2).

E = Find “Houston-Hancock N-W-K-?-R  Find the alphabet placement of the missing Letter [ A= 1, B = 2 . . . . .)

F =  The last digit of the year “Peter Kraguljac” was born

G = The digital root of the phone number (11 digits) one needs to call to have a loved ones name added to the memorial wall (Sign is gone G = 6)

H = Find the 3rd digit in the birth year of “Jane Baxter RN”

I =  The last digit of the year “Earle Taylor” Died

 

 

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chmmyr: O = 2, gur bevtvany fvta frrzf gb unir qvfnccrnerq, ohg V org lbh jbhyq unir thrffrq gung ahzore naljnl. Svany - Haqre n ybt

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)