Riverside Bike Trail End Mystery Cache

We created this cache in fulfillment for our final project in our information technology and ethics class at Corning-Painted Post High School. This cache contains a book or Ottendorf cipher in order to solve for the coordinates of the actual cache, these coordinates only lead you to a parking area.

Upon parking your car, the bike path is to the north past the park, then walk east on the bike path and cross the street carefully. Here you will find the plaque with the text to use on the south side of the path.

The coordinates are as follows, with letters representing numbers in the final coordinates. Using the cipher, you’ll discover letters on the plaque; a given letter’s place in the alphabet will be the number you substitute into the final coordinates. For instance, E=5.

Three-part Ottendorf ciphers can be used with multiple texts, so the first number references the target text. In this case, we’re using just the plaque, so the text number in each series is “1.” Ottendorf ciphers use a format of:

Text number - line in text - character in the line

For our purposes there will only be one text

N 42° A.BCD'

W 77° E.BFF'

A; 1-1-3

B; 1-13-4

C; 1-3-5

D; 1-11-17

E; 1-2-17

F; 1-12-16