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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 “Pos t-Publication FTFer(s)” space on the log.
Thanks CarlottaP for helping check the puzzles.
The final container is at: N 38° 01.ABC W 122° 08.DEF
A. True or false? The Wind Cave gets its name from the fact that the cave "breathes," with the difference of pressure between inside the cave and outside forcing air out the small openings of the large cave, creating a wind. TRUE = 0 FALSE = 4
B. Wind Cave is the seventh longest cave in the world with 24B.16 kilometers (154.2 miles) of explored cave passageways (as of 2021)
C. More than 109,000 people toured the cave itself in 2015, the most since 19C8 before cave tours were limited to 40 people each
D. Wind Cave National Park was established on January 3, 190D by President Theodore Roosevelt
E. The first documented discovery of the cave by white Americans was in 18E1, when the brothers Tom and Jesse Bingham heard wind rushing out from a 10-inch by 14-inch hole in the ground. According to the story, when Tom looked into the hole, the wind exiting the cave blew his hat off of his head.
F. Wind Cave National Park was the Xst National Park established to protect a cave. X+6=F
Congrats to Team Psychopuppy for the Pre-FTF!
and Congrats to dkata, RV CREW, SweetDuo, and Virgojams for the co-Post-FTF!
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.