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 Cedar Springs Library has a long and interesting history dating back to 1881 when the Ladies Library Association was organized. This group of Village residents set about to establish a library of sixty volumes and to add to the number annually. Today, the library houses 22,000 items, of which 46% were donated. Stop in and enjoy the reading. There's also another cache to find inside! See cedarspringslibrary.org for current hours of operation.
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 (A.BCD)
A) How many bike racks are in front of the building?
B) Add the number of lines of words on the front of the building. Divide by 2?
C) How many flag poles are to the SE?
D) What is the second digit of the number of letters used in the words on the front of the building?
Checksum = 13
To get the West coordinates, add the following (.EFG)
E) How many pillars support the front overhang (The number you see looking directly at the front of the building)?
F) How many support brackets are there on the front soffet minus one, and then divide your answer by 2?
G) How many windows and doors make up the front entryway?
Checksum = 15
Good luck and Happy Trails!
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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
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.