Silver and Gold Wherigo Cache
A cache by PYC Message this owner
Hidden : 5/13/2018
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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Welcome to another in our Silver and Gold series.

This Wherigo cartridge will take you on a tour of the beautiful University of Idaho campus.
(See "How-To" section below if you haven't done a Wherigo before.)

It took us under an hour to complete the journey.
We drove a total of about 4 miles from Zone 1 (posted coords) to Zone 13 (final coords).
Almost all of the Wherigo Zones are in parking lots, allowing you to find the needed answers to cartridge questions from the comfort of your vehicle.
No parking permit should be needed, if you keep moving :-) If you want to park and walk around the campus, then here is your visitor's UI parking permit web page link.

BYOP to sign the final's log.

=============Wherigo How-To Section=============

If you haven't done a Wherigo before, you will need a device that can play a Wherigo cartridge. Some GPS receivers and most cell phones will play a Wherigo cartridge, once you download and install the Wherigo app. Here is a link to the Wherigo app web page. Choose "Download Player For Pocket PC", if you are installing the app onto your cell phone.

NOTE: You may have to log into the Wherigo site to get the player, but you can use your geocaching username and password to do so, as the Wherigo website is operated by Groundspeak.
BTW, Groundspeak is the owner of Wherigo.com, Geocaching.com and Waymarking.com.
You may also be asked to allow a connection to be established between the two sites, Geocaching.com and Wherigo.com. Do that. You can terminate the link in your geocaching profile after you finish the Wherigo, if you choose.

You will need to use this link to download the Wherigo cartridge: Silver and Gold to your device. When deciding which type of cartridge to download from the pull down menu, most cell phones will work with the choice "Pocket PC Device".


NOTES about temperamental Wherigo cartridges:

1. It may take a minute for the Wherigo locator to catch up with your actual location, especially if you are zooming around in a car, so as you approach a zone slow down and then pause at what you think to be the zone's location and see if the cartridge triggers the next event (picture, question, text). You should get a response from the cartridge in under a minute... but if not, see note #2.
2. Sometimes you can be in a zone and the next event doesn't get triggered. In this case, you may have to exit the Zone and then re-enter it. Fortunately, parking lots usually make this an easy process.

Update April 24,2025: Got a heads up from GofinditGranny that stage 6 was impossible to get to because of construction using the parking lot. We expanded the stage 6 zone boundary to 100 feet for this stage to make it possible, all other stage bondaries are around 25 feet. You will need to download the updated cartridge (same name - Silver and Gold) at the "Wherigo cartridge' link on the description page to play/replay this Wherigo. Thanks GfiG!

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)


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