The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates. You must solve the following puzzle to obtain the correct coordinates for this winter-friendly geocache. A geochecker is provided below. You’ll need to bring your own pen.
The cache is located at the following coordinates:
North 43 AB.CDE West 88 FG.HIJ
BADGES
Did you know you are earning badges and belts as well as souvenirs every time you find a geocache? Geocache badges are a way to show the progress you have made with your geocache finds, and can give geocachers a fun way to enhance the game and set new fun goals.
There are badges awarded for many things, such as finding a 5 difficulty cache, attending a geocaching event, working on completion of the difficulty/terrain grid, or uploading photos to logs. There are over 40 different badges! However, each badge exists on 8 different levels, starting with bronze and ending with diamond. The more caches you find, the higher the level you can potentially achieve as you work your way up to the diamond level.
SOLVING THE PUZZLE
You’ll find the information you need by first viewing the geocaching badge information of any geocacher with over 100 finds at the project-gc website at
https://project-gc.com/ProfileStats/Jeremy#BadgeGen
The graphic shown below displays the badge statistics for Jeremy, one of the founders of geocaching.com. No need to log in, create a username or password, or sign up to view badge stats. You can substitute your own geocache username (or anyone else’s for that matter) for Jeremy’s name in the web address to view your own badge information. Or you could edit out "Jeremy" and enter our username of "Hack1of2" into the website address to see our badge profile. The web address is case sensitive so you need to be precise. When at the website you can hover your mouse over each badge to see how many qualifying caches have been found and how many more are needed to level-up! The page looks something like this:
At the bottom of that page at project-gc's website, click on “BADGE INFORMATION” as shown below. You'll need to do this to solve the puzzle:
As stated previously, the cache is not at the posted coordinates. Solve the following puzzle to get the coordinates for the cache. A geochecker is provided below. The cache is located at
North 43 AB.CDE West 88 FG.HIJ
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A = “The Adventurous Cacher” DIAMOND badge awarded for finding how many caches with a 5/5 Difficulty/Terrain rating
B = “The Mega Social Cacher” GOLD badge awarded for attending how many Mega Events
C = “The Photogenic Cacher” BRONZE badge awarded for finding how many Webcam caches
D = “The Diverse Cacher” PLATINUM badge awarded for finding how many distinct cache types in one day
E = “The Letterboxer” SAPPHIRE badge awarded for finding how many Letterbox Hybrid caches
F = “The Cache Owner” EMERALD badge awarded for hiding how many caches
G = “The Giga Social Cacher” SILVER badge awarded for attending how many Giga Event caches
H = “The Environmental Cacher” RUBY badge awarded for attending how many CITO events
I = “The Event Host” GOLD badge awarded for hosting how many of any type of event caches
J = “The Brainiac” SILVER badge awarded for finding how many Difficulty 5 caches
DISPLAYING YOUR BADGES
You can view your badges in private, but many cachers choose to display their geocache badges right on their geocaching profile page. There are numerous ways to do that. We use project-gc.com, a partner organization with geocaching.com. For those who would like to display their geo-badges on their geocaching profile page, you can set it up on project-gc and your geocaching profile page will be updated for free on a weekly basis. Geocaching badges can provide renewed interest in and fun goals for the game that we all enjoy, for many more years of fun and adventure. If desired you could even post a screen capture of YOUR geo-badges with your log!
This geocache placed by a member of the
Placed with permission, Milwaukee County Parks permit #659.