How many of you have noticed how quiet things haven’t been lately? That’s because besides all the developments going in and road improvements the 
Hexadecimal Hippos have gotten together with the Binary Beavers and have been working hard on a surprise—besides all those cute little beavopotamuses. They’ve come up with a new and improved version of The Beavers Binary BrainBuster (Cache Not Here).
It has been a quite a spring for the Beavers, building dams, chewing on trees, while the hippos have been wallowing close by in the mosquito infested mud; generally being busy as can be. Since everyone needs a break from the daily grind, they all got together and came up with a new challenge for the local cachers.
It is simple really, just solve the puzzle below and head out to the coordinates. The cache is there waiting for you.
And just to help keep things simple and not confuse you too much, the Beavers decided to only use ones and zeros along with some hexadecimal thrown in for the puzzle. Wasn't that nice of them? Here are the coordinates:
000001010001111111010111000101100001001111110001011000100110111010
111000111011001011001110110110011010111101100011100001001111000010
110110111111010101101101101111001100010110010101001111010100110101
011100011101100101100111011011001101011110110001110000100111111011
110001111100110100010111000010011111100010110001110101011011011010
100111101100011111011000101000011101010110110000010011110001110100
010100000100111111000111111101101100010111000111011001011001110110
110011010111101100011100001001111011001110011010001011111011110001
011011110011000011001100100001001111101111101101111001100111000010
011111111001001101101111010100011110100111111001100101101111101011
011000101110001110110010110011111001100101101111101011011000100100
111100001011011011111101010110110110111100110001011001010100111111
000101100010011011101011100011101100101100111110001111111000111101
001111110111100011111001101000101110000100111101101100110101111011
000111000010011110110001111101100010100001110101011011000001001111
000111010001010000010011111100010110001001101110101110001110110010
110011101101100110101111011000111000010011110110011100110100010111
1101111000101101111001100
Whoa you say! That’s a lot of ones and zeros for just some purported coordinates. Well believe it or not the sneaky animals used something called Huffman encoding to arrive at the above. This results an 80% reduction in the binary representation of the encoded message.
In their giddy rush to put this puzzle together they forgot to shred the below information which was found fluttering around the WMI site over on Moran Road. It is crucial to finding the cache:
6: 90, 7: 64, 2: 38, 4: 31, 5: 29, 0: 22, 9: 19, e: 16, 8: 10, 3: 8, d: 7 (8), f: 5, 1: 4 (2), c: 3 (2), a: 2 (1), b: 1
Good Luck!
Make sure you take note of the three letter code on the container. You will need it (it is the letter L) to find the series bonus cache: TRIBUTES17: The Bonus Finale .
Tested and verified solvable by Serrabou—regrettably with the wrong coordinates, so he can’t endorse the new puzzle.
March 25, 2018: I have added parking coordinates for ZippyFinn since she apparently doesn’t do caches without parking coordinates. You can park there if you want or if you’re like most goecachers, you can probably find a parking spot within 200’ of the final.
Congratulations to Gaiter Man for the FTF and for persevering the wrong coordinates to eventually determine I had made a mistake in the coordinates—hey they were only off by one digit. For that he rates a T4.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.
