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Sleepy's Legacy Multi-Cache

Hidden : 7/4/2003
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is part of Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs  and contains a clue to the Happily Ever After cache location.
the Co-ordinates given don't have much to do with the cache. They are for Caley's Repulse if anyone wants to look at it.

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Dwarftown Gazette 4 July 2003

For a number of years there have been whisperings amongst the dwarfs that one of their ancestors had been charged, convicted and transported to a prison colony.
With the increased interest in the story of Snow White and the part the dwarfs paid in keeping her safe from the wicked Queen, some of the younger dwarfs have been researching the events.

Needless to say, the older dwarfs were reluctant to say too much, however from reading archived documents, along with what they had been told by the older dwarfs they have been able to piece together the history.

When Snow White bit into the apple and fell into a deep sleep for a year, Sleepy was overcome with guilt for not realising sooner that she had fallen into the hands of the wicked queen and left the other dwarfs to search the land to try and find some way to help her. The queen’s courtiers, on hearing of this, conspired to have him arrested and imprisoned. He was brought before the Dwarftown assizes on false charges and sentenced to 7 years transportation.
The records show that on arriving on these shores, because of his mining experience Sleepy was assigned to a road maintenance gang maintaining a road built earlier by Mr William Cox and a party of convicts. The road gang was supervised by Captain John Bull. The stockade where he slept is now a picnic area and reserve
One of the persistent stories is that Sleepy hid some personal effects and other objects in an area in which he worked. There is talk that he placed a likeness of himself with his effects.


Measurements were not very precise in Sleepy’s day; the papers that have survived show Sleepy hid his effects at E150 (ww.dec), S33 (ww.dec)

Over the years people have searched for these effects without success, they have left markings, sometimes on rocks and sometimes on plaques that point to where they believe the possessions are hidden.

The young dwarves have found an object at S33º 46.066 E150º 38.475 which mentions Mr. Evans. They believe one of the previous searchers was involved in placing this marker and arranged the text on the Southern side so the odd page number used is the whole number of minutes in the longitude of Sleepy’s cache. The day the text refers to is the LSD of the decimal portion of the longitude, this digit follows one half its value, and they both follow one equal to the decimal portion of the distance given in metres.

There is a marking on a large flat rock somewhere near the centre of the stockade where Sleepy spent his nights. It is disguised as a date put there by a couple from a mine in a Northern State. The story goes that the female of the party was named Tania and the month inscribed references a number inscribed in a plate at S33º 43.460, E150º 29.653. The digit equal to the month and the one to its right, when added to 1 is equal to the whole number of minutes in the latitude.

It is said that some people following the same occupation as Mr. George Evans built a structure near S33º 43.?04, E150º 29.?04, close to the road built by Mr William Cox. Two of the digits in the location were illegible in the transcription however some papers were discovered which suggest the missing digit in the latitude is the equal to the total  number of members mentioned on the object at S33º 46.066 E150º 38.475 and the missing digit in the longitude is the same as the centre one on the plate mentioned in the previous paragraph.

 If you look W 30º N from this point you can see the result of Sleepy’s labours. The MSD of the height ASL of this area in yards is the LSD of the decimal part of the latitude of Sleepy’s cache. One less than this precedes it and one less again precedes that digit.

Don't forget to look around the area

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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)