Stage 1: Begin at the given Coordinates. They should lead you into the middle of a circle.
Name this circle "circle 1"
Stage 2: Go from here 164 meters at 3 (three) degree true.
You should stand in front of a benchmark of sorts.
On the West-Side write down:
- Year of death of the beloved wife; name this "Y1"
- Age at death; name this "H1"
On the North-side write down:
- Year of death; name this "Y2"
- Age at death; name this "H2"
Stage 3: At UTM10 E473082 N5362277 you should be standing in front of a manmade item;
there is a plate of sorts attached to it.
From this plate write down both 4-digit numbers:
- name the first one "Y3"
- name the second one "Y4"
By now you should have noticed yet another circle nearby. Name this circle "circle 2"
In the middle of this circle is a 'synthetic' "natural" GPS-holder *screaming* at you
to mark it as Waypoint!
Stage 4: "Homework":
According to your GPS-handset: What are Bearing ("D1") and Distance ("D2") (in km) from
the center of "circle 2" to the center of "circle 1"?
Presuming round world:
Calculate two theoretical other "centers of circles"; each of them building with the known
centers _even_sided_ triangles.
[Hint: calculate from both centers to both new centers and average the results!]
Thinking of "center 1" as -A- and "center 2" as -B- name the new center, that is located
further towards WEST -C- and its opposing center -C'-.
From the coordinates of -C'- go (0.944035214 + "D2") km at a Bearing of
(30.4189795 + "H1") degrees true; still round world.
Determine the UTM of that position.
Substract "Y1" from the Easting and Add "Y2" to the Northing.
This will give you your start for Stage 5. Most of your headache is over! :-D
Stage 5: If you have been successful, you should be standing in a pretty public garden in front
of yet another plate of sorts.
Write down the three 4-digit numbers in order of appearance: "Y5", "Y6", "Y7"
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Now go ("H2"-"H1")x2-1 meters at ("D1"+"D2") degrees true.
[For this step, make the calculations on the spot,
but do *NOT* use your GPSr!!! Eyeball it!
Using the GPSr just got cachers in trouble on this one...
Edit from 13. May 2006]
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You should be able to find a micro-cache with UTM-coordinates inside.
To get to Stage 6 you need to Substract "Y3" from the Easting and Add "Y4" to the
Northing.
[EDIT 03. April 2008: MICRO1 has *GONE*, if you can confirm the location,
I will email you contents of MICRO1; this way this cache is still solveable...
else I will need to archive it... it has been around long enough!]
Stage 6: Yet another beautiful place; I was rather surprised to see no cache here yet.
The next micro-cache is just where you would expect it.
And... you guessed right: more UTM-Coordinates!
Substract "Y5" from the Northing and Add "Y7" to the Easting.
Head about 120 paces south. There is yet another plate!
Count the amount of names and words on this plate; excluding the 4-digit number
at the end. Take the 4-digit number and add each of its numbers together
[ "...." => .+.+.+.="_"]
Now add the amount of the names and words to the result. Name this "D3"
Stage 7: Now you should be at the UTM calculated from micro-cache2.
Gee... you must be smellin' the cache you are this close!
But: First enjoy the view that this Circle has to offer!
Then head right on: Go "D3"-5 meters at a Bearing of - here it comes now!!! -
("Y6"-"Y1")x3-"H1"+2x("D1"-"D2")+74 degree true
This Cache had to be reincarnated.
"I replaced it with a brown match stick holder about a meter off the ground & wired it on to a tiny oak tree's trunk. Little bit of orange flagging tape on a slightly bigger oak about 1 1/2 meters away. The coordinates are within 10 meters, which is pretty good for this hill. Signed the log for myself and all my little geo-kids.
Annie Maroo"
Please try to keep a Music-Theme going; however, other items of equal or higher
value as well as TravelBugs are welcome.