Welcome to the Charleson Park Multi Tour - MP Series!
A Multi Plier cache - Mission: to flood the Lower Mainland with Multi caches to find!
Charleson Park is a 7.14 hectare green space found on the south bank of False Creek in the Fairview area of Vancouver. To the west of the park is Granville Island and to the east of the park is Olympic Village and Science World. The park contains peaceful pathways that wind through lush plantings and around a waterfall and pond, opening to striking views of the downtown shoreline. I hope you enjoy your visit to this amazing spot!
This is an 8 stage multi-cache + Final designed to start on the western side of the park and to work clockwise around to the final coordinates which are found more closely to the south-east side of the park. But I will leave it to you as to "how" you complete it. For each stage, you will need to answer a question based on the location and/or do a little math to gather coordinates.
Warnings and Explanations:
The difficulty rating is higher because of the number of stages and for the challenging well camoed cache container. The terrain rating is higher because of the number of stages (walking throughout the park) as well as the final location is on a steeper slope (just the last 10 m or so is off the main trail) The GOAL of this multi-cache is to provide a multi that has a higher D/T rating for your grid. I believe that the D/T rating is generous but I guess we will find out! There is NO intention of being difficult or tricky with the questions/answers. Just be careful putting the answers into the correct letter coordinate! Good luck.
Here are the final coordinates: N49 1A.BCD W123 0E.FGH
Stage 1: Coyote sign - coords: N49 16.022 W123 07.516
Question: What is the 9th number in the 10 digit number phone number?
Answer: A
Stage 2: Charleson Park Seaside Greenway sign - coords: N49 16.053 W123 07.497
Question: On either side of the sign at the bottom is the sign number. CVS_?_.What is the 2nd number shown at the "?" position?
Answer: C
Stage 3: Vancouver Views - Protected Public Views and View Corridors - coords: N49 16.057 W123 07.463
Question: The 2nd number of the year from the "Then and now" box that shows a view of Yaletown and the construction of the seawall.
Answer: B
Stage 4: Charleson Park Bike Vancouver sign - coords: N49 16.077 W123 07.393
Question: How many User Services are along the bike route in the Legend of the map?
Answer: D = answer + 2
Stage 5: Charleson Park Dog Off-Leash area sign - coords: N49 16.079 W123 07.363
Question: How many "points" are found on the sign? (Count even the one at the very bottom)
Answer: E
Stage 6: Bench Area with a View - coords: N49 16.099 W123 07.317
Question: How many benches are found up on this hill with a great view of False Creek and downtown?
Answer: F = answer - 1
Stage 7: Bridge - coords: N49 16.028 W123 07.388
Question: How many vertical posts are part of the bridge?
Answer: G = answer + 1
Stage 8: Sign on a Brick Wall - coords: N49 15.991 W123 07.355
Question: How many letters are found on the brick wall? (one word)
Answer: H = answer - 8
The final North coords ABCD checksum is: 29
The final West coords EFGH checksum is: 20