The idea for this
cache was adapted from
It's All Logical, with the permission of the cache
owner. Thanks,
julesd!
The following story
uses the names of some geocachers in the Victoria area, but all the
details of the story are fictional. Please be careful not to say
anything in your log that could give part of the solution
away.
It was a day like
any other in Victoria. But at 11:17 A.M. cache-advance peered into
his screen, moved his mouse and clicked, and a new cache by the
X-treme GPS Team came online. Within seconds emails had been sent,
beepers had gone off and cell phones had been opened. Within
minutes four vehicles were converging on the listed
coordinates. When they
arrived, all but one of the four cachers made a
trade. Determine
the order of the find, the GPSr used by each of the four
cachers and the trades they made, using the following
clues:
1. The cacher who didn’t
trade---it wasn’t viguy---found the cache after the cacher with the
eTrex Vista but before the cacher who took the X-treme GPS Team
t-shirt.
2. The cacher who left an advance
copy of Team CD #59 found the cache before nomaddante and took the
geocoin left by fws.
3. Nomaddante, who wasn’t using a
Magellan Meridian Platinum, mentioned that the first finder’s log
was written 27 minutes before he arrived.
4. The only copy of Team CD #62
had already been taken before Peregrine007 found the cache using a
Garmin GPSMap 76CS.
5. Viguy didn’t leave the maglite;
he found the cache before the cacher using the Garmin Rino 130 and
after the cacher using the eTrex Vista.
6. Nomaddante wasn’t the one who
didn’t trade.
7. The geocoin was taken after the
cacher using the Garmin GPSMap 76CS found the cache.
Insert your answers in
the following table.
|
|
Cacher |
Took |
Left |
GPSr |
|
1st
Finder |
(A) |
(B) |
(C) |
(D) |
|
2nd
Finder |
(E) |
(F) |
(G) |
(H) |
|
3rd
Finder |
(I) |
(J) |
(K) |
(L) |
|
4th
Finder |
(M) |
(N) |
(O) |
(P) |
The values for A-P are
found by consulting the following list:
Advance copy Team CD
#59=9
eTrex Vista=6
fws=4
Garmin GPSMap 76CS=7
Garmin Rino130=8
Geocoin=3
Left nothing=9
Magellan Meridian
Platinum=0
Maglite=3
nomaddante=2
Peregrine007=2
Team CD #62=1
Team t-shirt=1
Took nothing=5
viguy=4
Now get your
coordinates:
48 2 H .
G L F
123 1 K .
M B C
The cache is a
medium-sized Lock & Lock. Reception is not the best at the
cache location, but if you need it the clue should make for an easy
find, which does not require you to leave the
trail.