Disc Golf Collision Mystery Cache
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A frisbee golf outing goes awry
COORDINATES ABOVE ARE FOR REFERENCE ONLY. They get you close to a useful clue, of sorts. They are very close to the first tee-and a course map is sometimes available there.
You & Badd Companie are playing frisbee golf on the newly expanded Oak Park Disc Golf Course in Wichita. I can't make any derogatory statements about your game, but the Badd One is not a good player, being a hacker at best, and not always the most social of company.
Neither of you is having a good round. Triple and quadruple bogeys are common. The Badd One is playing so bad that you get fed up and are one hole ahead of him. He drops in the basket on 14 for an eleven (par 3) just as you chip in the basket on 15 for an equally marvelous ten (par 3). Simultaneously you both lose it. You hurl your frisbee straight toward the basket on 10, (the last hole you got better than double par on) It is going to be your best shot of the day...long and very straight. The Badd One, meanwhile has had enough. He decides to quit for the day and gives his frisbie a mighty throw toward the 18th hole.
Both shots are long, strong and straight, flying over and through trees and other obstacles until BANG! They collide with each other.
Your first mission is to find the collision point. There is a geocache in an ammo box there. Inside the box are various goodies, several sponge Bob matchbox cars, Hanna Barbera matchbox cars, 50 state quarters, maybe a half or a gold dollar, a sponge bob calendar, and a travel bug.
This is intended to be an intersection cache. In theory at least, you need to get the co-ordinates of holes 10, 18, 14 and 15 and plot where the appropriate lines intersect. I say in theory because I solved it in the field using the co-ordinates of the holes and the bearing function on my GPS. Get close and see if you can find a spot where the bearings of the end points of one line are 180 from each other, do the same for the other two end points, find where those lines intersect. Or you can use graph paper, or you can use USA Photo Maps, or you can use analytic geometry to solve equations for the two lines, or you can solve it by pure dumb luck by wandering around Oak Park and its neighborhood until you find it.
At times the course is busy, if it is too busy, you should wait to get the co-ordinates especially if they are having a tournament. Otherwise, you can get co-ordinates by pretending to practice your frisbie putting at the indicated baskets. At times, you will see someone in a dark-colored doo-rag building little piles of sticks near trees and fallen logs: not to worry, it is merely Badd Companie building more decoy caches. (If anyone ever asks me what is up, I tell them these are homes for homeless little animals. If that isn't a flaky enough answer, I don't know what is)
And what about the frisbies after the collision? A sequel might be in the works.
Additional Hints
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