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This is a puzzle geocache. There is no container or relevant information at the posted coordinates.
The United States has 63 National Parks. All of these parks have different beauty between each other. The oldest is Yellowstone (1872), and the newest is New River Gorge (2020). Each National Park has a 4 digit “Alpha Code.” The Alpha codes are made up of the first four letters of the park name. But if the park has more than one word, it takes the first two letters of the first two words. But there are some exceptions.
Examples:
1 word: Yosemite - yose
2 word: Petrified Forest - pefo
2+ word: Black Canyon of the Gunnison - blca
Exception: Carlsbad Caverns - cave
I will hide a geocache to honor all of these parks. I will do 6 groups of 10 caches. Each of these are a puzzle with 6 questions.
I used Wikipedia for this information, as it gives it all on one page. Also say in your log if you have been to this park. If you have, please post pictures.
FTF Prize:
This is 1 of 8 caches in nsearls25's nps series that were given away as FTF prizes at KCSearcher's GC8M906 - CCE: DeLorme Challenges + State County Challenges event. For those attendees that received this as a prize, they had an 8 day head start on those that didn’t attend the event. The prize winners were instructed to sign the log in the “Pre-Publication FTFer(s)” space.
However, for the FTF Hounds that were not able to attend, they too had the opportunity to be FTF on this cache after publication that was targeted for Sunday, November 6, 2022 @ or around 8:00 AM Pacific Time. All they had to do is find the cache and be first to sign in the “Post-Publication FTFer(s)” space on the log.
Thanks CarlottaP for helping check the puzzles.
The final container is at: N 37° 59.ABC W 122° 07.DEF
A. Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve is the largest US National Park, and is larger in size than A US States (and about the size of San Bernadino county)
B. In the St. Elias Range, Mount Churchill has erupted explosively within the past B,000 years
C. About 2/3rds of the Park is designated National Park land (the other 1/3 is National Preserve, with the main difference being that sport hunting is permitted in the National Preserve). The area of the National Park for Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve is larger than the 4C smallest National Parks combined.
D. Mount Saint Elias is the tallest point in the park at 1D,008 feet tall
E. The park is accessible by highway from Anchorage; E rough gravel roads wind through the park which makes portions of the interior accessible for backcountry camping and hiking
F. F of the 16 highest peaks on US soil are located inside Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve
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Congrats to RV CREW & dkata for the Pre-FTF!
and Congrats to SweetDuo for the Post-FTF!