I Spy! What Am I? Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

bennet: Five months since the last find, and there is a hiccup in the middle of it now, and all the local cachers who will undertake it have done so (except for maybe Cacheburns), and I want to hide another important cache nearby, so you are hereby archived.

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Hidden : 5/30/2004
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

None of the terrain is difficult, but this cache is spread out over quite a bit of distance. One will have to drive a couple of miles to complete it. To do this cache, you will need some energy, a little gasoline, and some time. You may or may not need binoculars. I guess some cachers could do it in about 45 minutes. Others may take an hour or a little more. The final cache is an ammo box with a logbook and some stuff, including an engraved award for the first finder (see attached photo).

About a month ago, I came up with an idea for a cache. I was going to call it I Spy. I would send cachers from point to point, asking them to point their eyes in certain directions and look for described objects, kind of a visual landmark to visual landmark navigation. Stuff came up, and I wasn't able to work on it much.

Then, about a couple of weeks ago, I was looking on the website for new caches in the area, and I saw a new one named I Spy that belonged to Lotus. I thought "Hey, that was my idea!". Then, I ran out and found his cache. That cache, by the way, was fun and challenging.

Anyway, I still wanted to do my own, so here it is.

But first, you need to make sure your GPS unit is set up a certain way, because if it is not, this cache will not work for you as the cache is designed. I explain in the following paragraphs. I know some of you already know this, but some of you may not.

This cache is based on lines of "bearing". Bearing information is typically based on a north reference (an exception would be relative bearing). The most common north references are True North and Magnetic North.

These two references (True North and Magnetic North) are not the same. The True North Pole is at the top of the world, about where the axis of Earth rotation is, where all the lines of longitude intersect. The Magnetic North Pole is in the Canadian Artic, and it is where the pointer of a magnetic compass points, and it even moves, very slowly.

From the perspective of North Texas, if you were to first point your finger to True North, and then point your finger to Magnetic North, the difference would be about six degrees. This is the local Magnetic Variation. In California, the Magnetic Variation is about eleven degrees.

Your GPS unit may be currently set up to reference either (1) True North, or (2) Magnetic North with the magnetic variation correction entered and applied, or (3) Magnetic North without the magnetic variation correction entered. If your GPSr configuration is the last case, your GPSr is not going to point in the same direction as the bearings stated for this cache, given the landmarks that are used. You can adjust for this by simply setting up your unit for True North. Or you can manually adjust.

The bearings used in this cache are referenced to True North.
So, having said all that, let's go on with the cache...

The coordinates listed above are the Starting Point for this cache. Go there first.

Near the Starting Point, look around:
I spy the letters G, E, and O. They are very close, right where you should stand to start this search.

From the Starting Point, look bearing 093:
I spy two blue objects, one closer than the other. Both are manmade, and are used to communicate information. The close one has the eighth letter of the alphabet. The far one has two numbers, to help those who travel.

From the Far Blue Object, look bearing 084:
I spy a yellow and black object. It is quite a distance away, and it is tall. It is manmade and has letters on it.

From the Yellow And Black Object, look bearing 007:
I spy a large red triangle.

From the Red Triangle, look Northwest:
I spy, close by, a lot of numbers. A two-digit number is higher in elevation than all the rest. Take this number, AB, and apply it as follows to determine new coordinates.

A+2=C
AB+64=DE
B+1=F

New Coordinates:
N32 4C.DE5
W097 2F.B91

Go the new coordinates.
At the new coordinates, you will find a large rock at which you should stand to proceed.

From the Large Rock, look bearing 076:
What am I? I am manmade and very tall. I am also brown, so it is a little tricky seeing me among my tall natural friends. When you see me, I am unmistakable.

From the Tall Brown Thing, look bearing 039:
What am I? I am natural, not manmade. At one time I was very tall, but man has changed me, and now I’m only about three feet tall.

From the Three Foot Thing, look bearing 053:
What am I? I am manmade. I am concrete. I am a popular hangout for ants.

From the Concrete Thing, look bearing 333:
What am I? I have half a dozen pipes coming out of the ground. I have boxes, locks, and a meter. Don’t touch me, heed my warning.

From the Pipes Thing, start walking at a bearing of 004.
After walking 150 feet in that direction, look for the final cache.

Original cache contents include:
  • First to find award
  • Dubya And Aahnold TB
  • Cache Cruiser TB
  • New bottle of sunscreen
  • Fake banana
  • Tic Tac mints
  • Logbook with pen
  • Miscellaneous other stuff
  • Good Luck!
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