Happy 20th birthday, Geocaching! 

Please treat the final item with care - it WILL take you some time to do it but you will do better being gentle with it!

This cache is not at the listed location, which is at the Milton Keynes Museum, a very interesting place nearby to the final location.

On May 3rd 2020 Geocaching became 20 years old. On May 3rd 2000 the first “geocache” was placed. However, the first geocache was not called a geocache at all, but a “GPS Stash”. Although the original Geocache is no longer in place, there is a plaque marking its location and a physical container with a logbook for visitors to sign.

To celebrate, this Adventure Lab takes the participant to the published coordinates of the top five favourite caches within the Milton Keynes boundary at that date. You are not required to solve or find the caches and, not surprisingly, they are spread around so they can be done in any order and will probably require a car but could easily be achieved on a bike.

To reach the co-ordinates for this cache you need to complete the Milton Keynes Geocaching 20th Birthday Lab cache series. You need to use the Adventure Lab App on a phone and visit the 5 stages answering questions. Each correct answer at each stage gives you a find and will increase the number of lab caches you have found each time.

Once the set is completed, in the app, select "View Journal Entries" and scroll through the entries to retrieve the values for A, B, C, D and E to complete this puzzle.

N 52 D.ABC   W  000 C(E-1).BDE

The final in a field puzzle that can be unhooked from its location but requires gentle manipulation.  Please treat it with care and ensure it is left as found.

Good luck and Happy Caching!

FTF:  Pesh   03/07/20 - Well done!

Here's the link to the Adventure Lab: https://labs.geocaching.com/goto/MKGeoBirthday

Note: You will need to have the Adventure Lab app installed to complete it.