The cache is not located at the posted coords but it is a good place to start your hike. Solve the field puzzle below to obtain the final coordinates.
The Magalloway River begins its life deep in the woods of Western Maine, near the border with New Hampshire and Quebec. The river starts as a twisting, turning, tanic stained freestone river emerging from Moose Bog. The river widens over its course and features deep, wide pools and intermittent stretches of shallow riffles, before tumbling over Little Boy Falls and emptying into Parmachenee Lake. Below Parmachenee, the Middle Magalloway exits as a wide flat river before falling over the remnants of the old Keenans Dam, and dropping swiftly for a mile and emptying into Aziscohos Lake. Both the Upper and Middle River are home to a healthy population of native brook trout and wild landlocked salmon. Spring and Fall see runs of big, lake-dwelling trout and salmon into the system. Spring and Fall are the preferable times to fish. Summer can provide opportunities as well if cool wet weather keeps water temps favorable.
The Magalloway River below Aziscohos Dam is one of the finest and most popular fly fishing destinations in Western Maine. The river here is a tailwater that feeds from the bottom of Lake Aziscohos. The river plunges steeply for over a mile, before flattening out and meandering it’s way to Lake Umbagog. The cold water from the bottom of the dam provides good growing conditions and ample hatches of insects for the native brook trout and wild landlocked salmon that call the river home. Much of the trout fishing is confined to the upper pocket water, as the lower flat-water warms in the summer and is full of smallmouth bass.
FINAL: N44 56.A W071 00.B
At the posted coordinates is a sign.
1. Take the second to last word in the sign and follow these steps to solve for “A” (the word has 7 letters):
- Substitute a number for each letter in the word where A=1, B=2, C=3,…Z=26
- Sum the numbers
- Multiply by 5
2. Take the last word in the sign and follow these steps to solve for “B” (the word has 4 letters):
- Substitute a number for each letter in the word where A=1, B=2, C=3,…Z=26
- Sum the numbers
- Multiply by 15
- Add 12