The task is to fill the grid with nine letter words using the three-letter word fragments. Each word fragment is used only once. When complete, there will be two words too many for the grid. These extra words will provide a hint to two other words reading down in the grid.
To find the cache location, use the letters left over (i.e. the letters in the 7 columns that don’t relate to the hint). Give them their appropriate numeric value (e.g. A=1, Z=26). Subtract the sum of the remaining letters from the latitude and add them to the longitude to find the cache location.
Special thanks to DeltaDelta1 for helping to proof this puzzle and solution.
Please make sure you close the top tightly to keep things dry inside. You can validate your solution by clicking the icon below. Make sure you enter a space after “N” and “W” and after the degrees portions of the solution (your answer should look like N 99 99.999 W 99 99.999 including the spaces)
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