Welcome to my YODA series. Please see GC933E0 for full description . For years I have been amazed by the hermitage in Hermit’s Wood. If you have never been to it then welcome to a Derbyshire gem. Use the provided waypoint to access the lower path in Hermit’s Wood and you will soon reach a short flight of steps up to the posted coordinates and the hermit’s cave itself. The noticeboard will tell you all you need to know and you will also find the final coordinates by solving the following. NB: don't use online images of the notice board - there are several variants and they won't necessarily give you the correct answer particularly to "D"
52 56.ABC -1 20.DEF, where:
A = find the year the hermit moved down the hill; 3rd digit minus the 1st digit
B = 2nd (or 3rd) digit in the year the photograph is taken
C = 1st digit of the duration of the hermit’s residence here.
D = number of lines in the 1st paragraph (or the 2nd paragraph)
E = number of “do not” requests x 2
F = sum of the 1st two digits in the year of Cornelius’ dream
NB: don't use online images of the notice board - there are several variants and they won't necessarily give you the correct answer particularly to "D"
Checksum of 26 or use the geochecker. There is one other YODA cache between here and the final and one cache from another series of mine as well at the top of the steps.
Once solved, keep going up the 90 odd steps to the higher path and continue by first seeking out YODA 21 (if you haven’t already found this – but it is just a renamed old cache so you might have already got it).
You can check your answers for this puzzle on
GeoChecker.com.