OH COLUMBIA Multi-Cache

"OH COLUMBIA YOUR OUR SCHOOL..." School song - hence the name of the cache

COLUMBIA ACADEMY BEGAN IN 1903 AS A CHRISTIAN BOARDING SCHOOL. IN THE 70'S THEY CLOSED THE DORMS AND IT BECAME A DAY SCHOOL. DURING THE 60'S THE ENROLLMENT WAS WELL OVER 200 STUDENTS. IN OUR FAMILY WE HAD 3 GENERATIONS GRADUATE FROM THE SCHOOL. AT STAGE 1 THERE USED TO BE A COMMUNITY GROCERY MARKET WHICH I WORKED AT MY SENIOR YEAR.  Should be a easy multi. but a tough find

Stage 1 CACHE IS NOT AT THE POSTED COORDINATES. You are looking for a really big benchmark (hint it is north of posted coords. its silver and is a tank ) it has 2 words with 15 letters total ( big letters).  You will be solving for:

N 45 AB.CDE  W 122 FG.HIJ  SUBSITUTE NUMBERS FOR LETTERS (i.e. A=1 B=2...Z=26)

12th letter = A

5th letter  MINUS 7 = B

6th letter = C

2nd letter MINUS 9 = D

4th letter MINUS 21 = E

10th letter = F

1st letter = G

15th letter MINUS 25 = H

13th letter = I

7th letter MINUS 3 = J  

(CHECK SUM FOR ALL 15 NUMBERS IS 49)   This will take you to stage 2.

Stage 2 there is a blue/silver medallion on sidewalk. you will be solving for:

N 45 KL.MNO  W 122 PQ.RST

how many R's are on the medallion = K

how many words are on the medallion = L

how many stars are on the medallion = M

how many T's are on the medallion +5= N

how many N's are on the medallion = O

how many I's are on the medallion = P

how many A's are on the medallion = Q

how many O's are on the medallion +2= R

how many W's are on the medallion = S 

how many fish are on the medallion +7= T

( CHECKSUM FOR ALL 15 NUMBERS IS 57 FOR FINAL)

THERE IS A PATH ACROSS THE ROAD SO STAY PARKED AS YOU HEAD FOR THE FINAL IT IS A SHORT HIKE. YOU WILL NEED TO GO OFF THE PATH A SHORT WAYS. THE CACHE IS WELL HIDDEN .    DON'T FORGET THE BONUS COORDS. AT FINAL THEY ARE IN 2 PLACES THE LID AND IN THE LOGBOOK.  PLEASE COVER THE CACHE BACK AS YOU FOUND IT, SO THE NEXT PERSON CAN ENJOY.  BRING YOUR OWN PEN ,BYOP, I PLACED ONE IN BUT YOU KNOW HOW PENS WALK OFF.