Welcome to Burnaby's Central Park and to the Kiosk Walking Tour!
A Multi Plier cache - Mission: to flood the Lower Mainland with Multi caches to find!
Central Park is an 86.4-hectare urban park notable for its immense Douglas fir, western hemlock, cedar, poplar and maple groves. It is known for its excellent sports and recreation facilities. Tennis courts outdoor swimming pool, horseshoe pitch and a pitch-and-putt golf course are popular draws. Anchoring the park is Swangard Stadium, host facility for many sporting, cultural, corporate and fundraising events. (City of Burnaby website)
Warnings and Explanations:
This is a 6 stage multi-cache designed to travel to 5 sign kiosks (big information signs) placed throughout Central Park. They are located around various entrances to the park. Parking areas are close by to each of the kiosks so you can also drive to each one of the spots but it is more enjoyable to go for a walk if you are able. The walkways are all wheelchair accessible and flat. The only issue is length of the trail. I estimate that the entire walk is about a 3 to 4 km loop depending on which trail you take). These kiosk signs have great information describing the natural environment and history of the park. Read the signs and find the answers to the questions. You can collect the information in any order but I recommend that you collect the Southwest sign last as you'll be closest to the final. (Be mindful that there are 2 sides to every kiosk sign)
NOTE: I have often been baffled at low D/T ratings of some multicaches. I think that multis should have higher difficulty based not only on the difficulty of the hide and the terrain at gz but also the distance travelled and the number of stages in the multi. The more stages means there is a higher chance of missing something! I think we should be getting credit for that! So the D/T of this multi is generous and well-deserved! :)
Here are the final coordinates: N49 AB.CDE W1FG HI.JKL
Stage 1: Outdoor Pool/Central Park sign kiosk - coords: N49 13.729 W123 01.381
Question AB: Count the number of unique letters in the 3 words to the right of the "You are here" symbol on the map.
(don't include duplicates in the letters in the words)
Question C: The number to the left of the "You are here" symbol on the map.
Stage 2: Northwest sign kiosk - coords: N49 13.904 W123 01.175
Question DE: need a new answer! (27)
Stage 3: Northeast sign kiosk - coords: N49 13.764 W123 00.808
Question FG: Photograph of Jubilee Grove arch and garden in the snow circa:?
Answer: FG = (add up all 4 digits) + 1
Question H: Year Central Park entrance gate was constructed on Kingsway?
Question I: Year Central Park was first leased to Burnaby and an auto camp was established in the park for camper touring?
Answer: HI = (add up all 4 digits for H) - (add up all 4 digits for I)
Stage 4: Maywood entry sign kiosk - coords: N49 13.547 W123 00.852
Question J: Distance in metres the Northern Flying Squirrel can glide from a height of 20m?
Answer: J = Add up the 2 digits
Question: KL = Count the number of unique letters in the 2 words just above the "You are here" label.
Answer: KL = Square the resullt of the letter, then add 5. (86)
(don't include duplicates in the letters in the words)
The final North coords ABCDE checksum is: 16
The final West coords FGHIJKL checksum is: 28
The actual cache difficulty is a 1.5 and terrain a 1.5.(however, most of the walk is wheelchair accessible except for the very last bit to get to the final which is a 1.5) The rest of the D/T rating comes from the number of stages and walk to get here.