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, and one of my favorite places in town!
The original company was founded in March of 2013 as David Ringler searched for a location to bring Gemütlichkeit to his West Michigan home. In working with several local investors, a location was found in December of that year at the corner of Maple and Main Streets in downtown Cedar Springs, right on the White Pine Trail.
The brewery opened its doors to the public on November 13, 2015 with a beer lineup focused on traditional Bavarian styles, along with American craft options, and a menu rooted in Oberbayern (Upper Bavaria) to compliment an American smokehouse pub menu. Once you complete your adventure stop in for a brew and a pretzel. They're BIG and they're good!
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) How many big words are across the top of the building plus how many small square windows have logos in them?
B) Count the narrow windows on the front of the building. Subtract the first digit from the second digit?
C) Use the second digit from adding the digits in the address to the number of words across the top of the building.
Checksum = 21
To get the West coordinates, add the following (.EFG)
E) How many glass panels are in the entry way, include the door?
F) Use the first digit from the number of windows you count in the top row of windows on the front of the building?
G) Add the digits together from "F" and subtract one from your answer.
Checksum = 15
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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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 Congrats to RDC4106 for the FTF!
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.