Montane Mystifier!
Mt Olympus from Cottonwood Park
This is a puzzle cache. It is not at the listed coordinates. To obtain the cache coordinates, please solve the following puzzle by filling in the blanks below.
This cache is part of the Project Atoz series. Click here for more information.
Note that the FTF for Project Atoz is up for grabs. The "Found" log which briefly existed is attributable to an anomaly in the space-time continuum.
In February of 2014, a geocacher from Munich completed a trek to one of the Seven Summits, found a cache there, and exclaimed, "Ah sante!" in his online log.
That same log contains a four-digit number that will be known as XXXX for the purposes of this puzzle.
Add 2,375 to XXXX.
Let "Edmund" be the name of your favorite geocache hiker and bring up his or her Profile and Statistics screens (I have no one in particular in mind - you get to choose!). A likely suspect will have several Terrain 4, 4.5 and 5 finds under his or her belt. Let YYYY be the four-digit year in which Edmund joined Geocaching.
Add to YYYY the last three digits of Edmund's current overall geocache find count (1,280 finds would mean add 280).
Subtract the number of Wherigo caches Edmund has found.
Add the month number of Edmund's first cache find multiplied by the month number of his or her most recent cache find (September and January would be 9 X 1 = 9).
Add the number of days in Edmund's Longest Streak (Statistics tab).
Subtract the number of caches found on Edmund's Best Day.
Still working with the ever-changing YYYY, repeat the following steps until you start getting repeating results:
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Rearrange the four digits of YYYY to make the largest possible number (5294 would be 9542) and call it AAAA
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Rearrange the four digits of YYYY to make the smallest possible number (5294 would be 2459, 1020 would be 0012) and call it BBBB
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Let YYYY = AAAA - BBBB
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Repeat the above three steps with the new YYYY
Once you get a repeating result for YYYY, which shouldn't take too long, you're good to continue.
Subtract 4,454 from YYYY.
The cache is at:
N 40 4X.XXX
W 111 5Y.YYY
Use this geochecker to verify your solution.
A tribute to a beloved archived cache is included with the geochecker's success message.
Don't forget to make a note of the clue word on the cache log. You will need it to solve Project Atoz!