This series of puzzle caches was created as part of our Community Celebration Event on May 10, 2025. We will provide paper copies of this puzzle during this event to facilitate group solves and be available for consultation. These caches will be officially published at 2:30 PM, which is 30 minutes after the event ends. Following a practice we enjoyed at a California event, anyone who signs the log before the event is published can log a *FTF* -- to foster a sense of collaboration consistent with a Community Celebration.
Since we struggle mightily with picture caches, we decided to use a theme that is more familiar to us -- Math. The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates, which are located in the parking lot of the Quonset Bike Path. The cache is located at
N41° 37.XXX W071°25.YYY
While we were out jcaching in the wilderness, we stumbled across an abandoned YETI teepee !!!! The base of the teepee was a perfect square. A sturdy center pole supported the 4 side poles. The sides of the teepee were covered in deerskin. A 13 foot zipper ran from the center bottom of the front to the very top of the teepee. A bearskin rug appeared outside the teepee entrance. It was a perfect rectangle whose length was four times its width (in feet). It's perimeter exactly equaled its area.
XXX = (height of the center pole) ^ 2 -- ( 9th prime number )
YYY = 3 ( area of deerskin ) -- ( area of bearskin )
