Film titles described
in seventeen syllables
point to cache site.
To obtain the coordinates for this cache, you must first determine
the titles of the movies referenced in each of the following haiku
poems. (If there is any ambiguity about the correct title or number
of words, go with the primary title listed in IMDb.com.)
NORTH
MOVIES:
Before the Fire Swamp
Man in Black yells "As you wish!"
falling down the hill.
In election skit,
A guy does a dorky dance.
All vote for Pedro.
Daniel and Peachy
journey to Kafiristan
One loses his head.
Greed, paranoia --
"Badges? We ain't got no badges!"
All the gold is lost.
Rich and powerful,
but he ends his lonely life
muttering "Rosebud."
Though often quoted,
Rick never does say the line,
"Play it again, Sam."
A convict endures
failure to communicate
and eats lots of eggs.
Benjamin receives
momentous career advice.
Just one word: "Plastics."
House rises and spins
Lands on a wicked person
Her feet shrivel up.
Navin runs and shouts
with genuine excitement
"The new phone book's here!"
The deli patron
says "I'll have what she's having"
after hearing moans.
Weatherman relives
second of February
over and over.
Great white shark forces
everyone out of water.
Need a bigger boat.
Writer goes crazy
in the Overlook Hotel
"redrum" in mirror.
WEST
MOVIES:
Kermit and Fozzie
drive an old Studebaker
toward Hollywood.
Dead psychiatrist
tries to cure a little kid
who sees dead people.
Ogre wants his swamp
emptied of fairy creatures.
Donkey helps him out.
Marlin looks for son
Dory tries her best to help
Great fish-tank escape.
Unlikely romance:
she's eighty on Saturday;
he drives Jaguar hearse.
An African prince
works at McDowell's in Queens
seeking future bride.
Ben Franklin Gates thinks
Declaration hides secret
to Masons' great wealth.
Steerage passenger
yells from the bow of the ship,
"I'm king of the world!"
Broke Brit mill-workers
take it off, take it all off
to get off the dole.
Wapner's on at five.
I'm an excellent driver.
Must have eight fish sticks.
The governess / nun
makes children's clothes out of drapes
and plays the guitar.
Scotsmen painted blue
Prepare to battle British
fighting for freedom.
A creepy motel,
a stabbing in the shower,
son is his mother.
The DeLorean
hits eighty-eight miles per hour
as lightning strikes clock.
Heroine vows she'll
Never be hungry again
as Atlanta burns.
Janet, Brad get lost
Everybody sing along:
"Let's do the time warp..."
Kicked out by his wife,
Dad dresses as a nanny
to see his children.
Monk Brother Maynard
uses Holy Hand Grenade
to kill the rabbit.
Once you have determined all of the movie titles, the
coordinates can be calculated as follows:
N.NNN = 0.20725 * total number of words in North movie titles
W.WWW = 0.1205 * total number of words in West movie titles
Cache is at N 42° 2N.NNN W 71° 3W.WWW
Parking & trail info:
Parking is at N+0.050, W-0.450. It's a gravel lot that fits several
cars. Follow the path through the field that runs parallel to the
stone wall for about 200-300 feet; then follow the trail through
the woods. When the trail splits in two, and your GPS is telling
you to go straight ahead, take the right fork.
Note: we took several sets of coords
with two GPS units on a couple of different days; they varied
pretty widely. These coords are an average, and may be
somewhat off when you go, but you should still be able to
find the cache easily -- it's in the Obvious Spot.
Extra credit if your log is in the form of a
haiku!
The idea for this cache popped into our heads while we were
standing in the checkout line at Barnes & Noble, and spotted a
funny but overpriced book called
Haiku U, and said to ourselves, "I wish I had thought of
that!"