Welcome to your Geocaching 3202 Final Exam!
We hope you've paid attention all year, as Cache the Bayman! has placed over 90 hides since August 2015 hit. We have to admit; we like to do the finds, but we love to do the hides. We always imagine individuals, friends, partners and families having a chuckle at a cache description or a devious hide. (And thanks for putting up with all of the song parodies of late. :)
So as this school year for 2015-16 winds down, here's a little puzzle to solve using of some of our own favourite hides, to get you the co-ordinates of a classic new hide.
The instructions of the "exam" follow.
The coordinates of this hide are:
N47 3A.BCD
W052 4E.FGH
The numeric values that you need to swap out the letters A through H will be found by answering the questions below. The answers are found by going to the geocache page of one of our hides, with the GC code given in each case.
Once you have the coordinates, check them with the coordinate checker (below). Then "pass in your completed exam" by putting on your hiking boots for a smile (and a smiley) and make that classic find.
We want to thank everyone who have been coming out to our hides - thanks for a great year and for making it very worthwhile for us to make these hides. Through your log entries, you have made it a very memorable geocaching year for us.
So you keep on findin' em, and we'll keep hidin' em!
The exam starts... now!
Good luck!
Question A: In early February 2018, we has a week whereby we hid a bunch of different caches, and then, "A Little Bit of Everything" (GC7HWJV), a traditional cache to bring it all together. What is the difficulty level of GC7HWJV?
Question B: With "A Grave Problem" (GC66AVJ) after you 'about face', how many paces get you to the cache?
Question C: While several local cachers are mentioned in the description of "Touch of Grey" (GC6E5WF), this cache came about due to a very serendipitous request. How many cacher(s) is/are this cache dedicated to, according to the description?
Question D: For "White Rabbit" (GC6FAGK), according to the heading, what day in April was the cache hidden?
Question E: One of our multi caches is a fave of ours, "Lawyers, Guns and Money" (GC6DPKP). There is a number in the caching name for the FTF crew. What is that number?
Question F: "Terry's Dream" (GC75FRP) is our tribute to Terry Fox at the memorial in his honour on the waterfront. It was published and had its FTF on 05/XY/17. F=Y-X.
Question G: We used a few geocaching hides for a bit of social commentary to help us deal with Budget 2016 (and no, we're still not over it). For one of our own favourite hides, "Cathy's Little Stash" (GC6G9F2), what day in June 2016 did skyskimmer and Anie138 find the cache?
Question H: We recently adopted "Captain Cook's Lookout" (GCGNV9) in Corner Brook. The cache descriprion states that Captain Cook explored the area in X76Y. H=X+Y.
Time's up. Please submit your coordinates to the checker, and hope for a correct grade!
We hope this brought back some good geocaching memories from this past year, and we wish you the best for a fun summer of caching!
Namaste.
