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Harder Than Hull Multi-Cache

Hidden : 5/10/2004
Difficulty:
4.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


(Thanks to julesd for inadvertently suggesting the title for this cache in his 'It's All Logical' cache description. I couldn't resist using it!!!)

The location of Waypoint 1 (having the posted coordinates N45 21.326 W075 44.060) is exactly on a straight line running through the Ottawa region. The bearing of the line relative to true north is 1088 mils (or 4288 mils in the other direction). (6400 mils equals 360 degrees and mils feature is available on most GPSr’s. The precision of mils is about 17.8 times better than degrees.)

Scattered along (and exactly-ish on) the line are (currently) 16 black tags with white lettering. The labels are of the form AAA, BBB, ... ZZZ. The labels are all within 12 kilometers (either side) of the posted coordinates. The table below gives the distance in meters from each label to the cache.

No bushwacking is required to find the labels; you should be able to see them when looking from the appropriate viewing angle.

I enjoyed discovering new areas of Ottawa when hiding the labels. I hope you will enjoy finding a few of them!


Label

Distance

AAA 8351
BBB 6274
CCC 10900
DDD 5773
EEE 11685
FFF 12326
GGG 12883
HHH 14124
III
JJJ 9265
KKK 15107
LLL 6746
MMM 10298
NNN 8246
OOO
PPP
QQQ
RRR
SSS 6194
TTT 5665
UUU
VVV
WWW 5588
XXX
YYY
ZZZ


As mentioned above, there are (currently) 14 labels. The letters in the above table that have no corresponding distances are being held in reserve.

The cache container is camouflage coloured. Go find it and enjoy the scenery!


When logging your find, please indicate, by the LETTERS only (eg., AAA), which labels that you found.

PLEASE do not include spoilers in your logs. Logs with spoilers will be deleted immediately. If you believe there are any problems with the cache setup, please advise me privately by e-mail so that I may fix them if necessary.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

V sbhaq n arfg bs enppbbaf va n ubyybj gerr pybfr gb gur pnpur jura V uvq vg. Gurl znqr n erny enpxrg nf V zbirq nebhaq gur gerr.

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)