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Pine Woods Mystery Cache

Hidden : 4/19/2003
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

The posted coordinates will take you to the Jumpingpound Demonstration Forest Interpretive centre. Here, you will learn about forest management and you get some information to calculate the coordinates of the final cache. The cache is located somewhere on the Pine Woods Loop - one place to park is at the Spruce Woods day use area on the Jumpingpound Demonstration Forest loop at N51 01.953 W114 48.568.



Updated July 6, 2008!

Read about the history of the area and about forest management to answer the following easy questions.

A= Number of beams in the roof of the building (number that can be seen from the front).

B = Number of Elk on the "Wildlife" panel.

C = Number of skylights in the roof.

Checksum - total of three digits = 16

N51 01.ABC

In the Subalpine zone, what is the high end of the precipitation range? Subtract 19 from this number. This is the decimal portion of the westing minutes - YYY

W114 49.YYY

Cache is a clear plastic Lock and Lock container with a logbook, First Finders and finders cards and the usual goodies.


Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Abg n fdhner ebbg, arne cvax.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)