NAMETAGS Mystery Cache

Sagelily and I don’t attend many geo-events, but every one we’ve ever participated in was a delightful reunion with cachers we’ve come to know and admire and a chance to meet new ones.  Given my normal state of befuddlement I really appreciate it when folks wear nametags.

However, at one recent gathering, my appreciation turned to horror when I realized that everyone there wore a nametag, but the names on the tags didn’t match my recollection of any of their geo-names.  I approached a cacher I knew and admired and asked her why she was wearing the nametag USABLY.  She smirked at me and simply said “C’mon – you can figure that out.”

Nope – I couldn’t.  Nor could I make any sense that night of HEPTARCHY, HARMLESS, GUTSIER, NAKEDLY, HEARTFELT, REFORGE, CHARCOAL, HITHERWARD, UNPLEASING, SWEETBRIER, NAGGIER or STONEABLE.

It wasn’t until several days later, as I struggled with yet another buddysally puzzle, that the light bulb lit.  So that’s how they came up with those names.  Hmmmm …. why not turn this process into a puzzle cache.

And I did.

Simply determine the caching names of the 13 Canada’s Capital Cachers* who wore each of the nametags listed above.  String them out in the order they’re listed and determine the digital roots (sum and re-sum until you get a single digit) of the alpha-numeric values (A=1, B=2, etc.) of the 7^th, 58^th, 75^th, 79^th, 88^th, 100^th, 113^th and 150^th letters to obtain the last four digits of the N and W coordinates of this cache.

* refer to the Leaderboard of Canada's Capital Cachers at http://www.canadascapitalcachers.ca/cccstats/