Welcome to Cedar Springs! Another Michigan small town that has been included in a Geocaching Adventure. At the posted coordinates you won't find a cache but you will find a very interesting place to visit. The "Red Flannel Festival Office". Cedar Springs is the home to a most unique enterprise. Red Flannel under garments! They were produced for the loggers whose work required them to be outside throughout the harsh Michigan Winters. The business continues to be a viable part of the Cedar Springs Community.
The final coordinates to this cache can be found by completing the puzzle information below. All of this information can be found at the posted coordinates.
We're going to make some observations, and some math. Hopefully, it won't be to difficult.
To the North coordinates, subtract the following (.ABC)
A) See the big sign! There is something hanging from something else. How many Lines are used to hang the something else?
B) Take the number of buttons on the garment in the door window and multiply by the number of pins used to hang the garment?
C) How many word are on the big sign plus the number of windows for this location?
Checksum = 12
To get the West coordinates, add the following (.DEF)
D) How many pins are used to attach the garment to the line?
E) How many buttons are on the garment in the door window?
F) How many large words are on the big sign on the building?
Checksum = 8
Good luck and Happy Trails!
It seems my observations are not the same as the first seeker's observations, so this might help, if you can figure it out.
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ri Q#65 u=2??6= u6DE:G2=Q A=FD EH@ H:?5@HD
si %96C6 2C6 EH@ 4=@E96D A:?D FD65
ti (6 4@F?E65 E9C66 2=C625J
ui Q#65 u=2??6= u6DE:G2=Q
This cache belongs to a small series of Adventure Caches highlighting some of the local flavor of Cedar Springs. There is also an Adventure Lab here with a Bonus Cache. You can find the Bonus cache either by completing the Adventure Lab, or using the clues that can be found in the caches in this series.
Links to other caches:
Welcome to Cedar Springs - Red Flannel
Welcome to Cedar Springs - Hometown Press
Welcome to Cedar Springs - CSBC
Welcome to Cedar Springs - Elmwood Cemetery
Welcome to Cedar Springs - CSCL
The original plan was to have each of these Mystery caches to be “Bonus” Caches to the nearby Adventure. However, you cannot have a cache dependent on another, which is dependent on another. So, I had to quickly change the plans and didn’t do enough double checking on my math, coordinates, and observations. Special thanks for Team RDC and Team Fly&Friend for their persistence and efforts to figure out what lurks in the recesses of my mind.