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A History Lesson Mystery Cache

Hidden : 5/12/2017
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Welcome to Kugluktuk, and our oddly shaped heritage centre.

 


Coming from either of the hotels here, walking to this cache might bring you along our version of Main Street (Kugluktuk Drive); at one end, the Hunters and Trappers office, and proceeding along, the local Arctic Co-operative store and Post Office (and soon to be opened coffee shop), our municipal offices, and way in the distance at the other end of the street a hardware store and a contracting business.

A word of WARNING. When you come, please plan to come "old school", with a proper GPSr. Smart phones will now work in Kugluktuk BUT ONLY if they are connected to the Bell system. That said, cell service in the area around GZ might be sporadic, perhaps due to the behemoth of a building being GZ. But a GPSr with the coordinates loaded will definitely get you to GZ.

The posted coordinates will take you to a small cache near the Pulaarvik Pitquhiliqivik, roughly translated as the Visitor Heritage Center.  It is often called the Ulu Building.  Though you can't see why from the ground, if you could get a bird's eye view of the bulding, you would see that it is indeed shaped like the distinctive women's knife.  Inside is the local museum, a crafts shop, a few offices and a couple of meeting rooms. In this small cache you will find the clue to the final location of the cache.

Hours of operation of the center are from 08:30 to 17:00 (that is, till 5 pm) Monday through Friday, but closed at the lunch hour (or hour and a half or so).  Currently there is no fee to proceed further.

Your task is to enter the building, taking your shoes off as you go in, and find the museum inside.  Have a wander about and look at the history and artifacts of some of the Copper Inuit.  There isn't really a docent on hand but if you have questions I'm sure the manager at or near the front desk will be able to help.  The full size kayak was recently returned to our community, from Edmonton Alberta, where it had been languishing in someone's basement for many years.  The static displays and their notes along with the video displays and audio portions are an eye- and ear-opener for many visitors.

Once you've had your walk-about, and you decide it's time to proceed, you need to use the clue you found at the posted coordinates.

You are looking for a small, lock-n-lock, sandwich box (the rectangular kind) which includes a log book, a writing tool, and a little bit of swag. The FTF should find a one of the CO's pathtags as a free gift.  There is also at least one unactivated TB in the cache (don't be greedy, now; that's not the Inuit way).

The cache has been placed with the permission of Don LeBlanc, Senior Administrative Officer for the Hamlet of Kugluktuk (thank you sir!)

 

External Links:  

The Kayak article

The Ulu Building


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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)