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UMU: Okta Mystery Cache

Hidden : 2/2/2021
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Another in my UMU (Unusual Measurement Units) series. 

Cache container is in state gamelands. Hunting happens here. Wear orange. Avoid the area during prime hunting season. Container is small in crotch of three-trunked tall (dying?) pine next to a holly.

In meteorology, an okta is one eighth of the total area of the celestial dome. The term is used as a measure of cloudiness (one okta means that one eighth of the sky is obscured, two oktas that one quarter is obscured, and so on).

Cloud coverage table

Stull's Cloud Cover Tutorial page describes this measure in great accessible detail. Eighths are a good fraction to understand and visualize.

I wimped out on having the puzzle have a series of images where you would need to determine whether the sky was 3 okta or 4 okta. That is too subjective without experience.

Instead, we will be straightforward. Find the coordinates in ...

Visual okta puzzle of coordinates; see table

Congratulations to NoBlueCircles on the 8 okta FTF this morning.

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