Flag-bearing Veterans’ Plaza commemorates over 200 Civil War veterans, and other veterans of successive wars. The nearby Mount Cavalry Cemetery monument commemorates people reinterred from a nineteenth-century Bellingham cemetery.
For instructions on how to complete a Reverse Wherigo, skip to the next section. If you already know what to do, read on.
On the low circle wall, locate the plaque placed in memory of a 1st Lieutenant who was born on April 9, 1921.
Substitute the following digits:
A=number of letters in last name (7)
B=second digit on third line (3)
C=number of letters in middle name (6)
04A328
434B18
57C462
The final is in Whatcom Falls park; a trail connects the park to the cemetery.
This is a Reverse Wherigo cache.
To find this cache, you must:
(1) collect information from a plaque near the listed coordinates;
(2) use that information to solve a simple puzzle;
(3) input the solution into a Reverse Wherigo game cartridge (aka "box") which will lead you to the cache container; and finally,
(4) you must sign the logbook to claim a find.
You can download the Waldmeister Reverse Wherigo cartridge to your GPS or smartphone here. To play on a smartphone, you will need a Wherigo player app, such as Wherigo for IOS or WhereYouGo for Android. To find out if your GPS supports Wherigo, see this forum thread.
Start the Wherigo game cartridge and enter the two letter language selection (en for English). Select your preferred distance units (meters or yards). Read the instructions for using the cartridge. Select Play. The cartridge will then ask you to enter the three lines from the puzzle above.
It is suggested that you take these numbers with you on your journey. They will be needed if it becomes necessary to restart your player for any reason.
The general idea of a reverse Wherigo is that you "query" a "box" that knows where the cache is hidden. You can ask as many times as you like, but the box only gives one kind of answer: the current distance to the cache. If you want to take a moment to see how that's done, Halemeister created a nice YouTube video showing how he solved a reverse Wherigo.
When you have reached the final, you will be given some statistics on your quest. If you wish, you may enter the details into your log, and also post the number of times you calculated the distance.