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This Cache is placed as part of the 2021 Taconic Region Geocaching Challenge. The NYS Parks Saratoga-Captial Region and the Central Region will be hosting a similar challenge!! Find 45 challenge caches in the Taconic Region and stamp your passport to earn a trackable geo-coin. Ten caches found in the Sara-Cap and/or Central Region Challenge can be used toward the Taconic Challenge. This cache contains a unique stamp which must stay with the cache. Use this stamp to mark your passport. This stamp is NOT a trade item.
Please visit https://parks.ny.gov/documents/regions/2021TaconicGeocacheChallenge.pdf to print your passport.
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About this cache: Many improvements have been made to this area recently. A new visitor center, walkways, patios and flower beds -- you will pass all of them on the way to the first stage of this multi-cache.
To solve for the final: At the posted coords, count the number of blue circles on the concrete.
This will be X. A=X+1, B=X-4. The final is at N 41 42.6A5, W 073 55.6B5.
You are looking for an unusual container that is black. There will be muggles galore, so take a seat at gz, and use the hint if necessary.