Montane Mystifier!
West Over the Coast Range from Saddle Mountain
This is a
puzzle cache. It is not at the listed coordinates. To obtain
the cache coordinates, please solve the following puzzle.
This cache is part of The Atoz Sequence series.
Click
here
for more information.
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.
Subtract 2,401 from 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.
Add 860 to YYYY.
The cache is at:
N 46 1X.XXX
W 123 5Y.YYY
Use this
geochecker to verify your solution.
Don't forget to make a note of the clues on the cache log. You will need
them to solve
The Atoz Sequence!