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Illuminated Along the Bike Path Multi-Cache

Hidden : 8/13/2005
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Visit two great vantage points for watching Alaska's Spring and Autumn bird migrations and become illuminated about Alaska's game fish and mammals.  This is also the Ladybug Kids' sixth in a series of caches accessible via one of Fairbanks' bicycle trails.  


All cache waypoints are accessible 24 hours per day, 365 days of the year.  The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) Region 3 (Interior Alaska) Office near the final waypoint is open 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and features hands-on exhibits of animal furs and skulls, salmon fry aquariums, and mammal displays.  ADF&G also has an informative website You may walk or drive to ADF&G from the first waypoint.  Parking may be found at N64° 51.720, W147° 44.510.

   

The next to last stage is located at N64° AB.CDE, W147° FG.5HI, where the sum of A through I is 32.  Using information available from the panels at the cache page's coordinates, the panels approximately 140 feet west-northwest of the cache page's coordinates, and mammals in the ADF&G building's indoor visitor area, the values for A through J may be determined:

A = The number of duck species on the Berry and West panels
B = The number of owl species on the Berry and West panels
C = The difference of the second and first digits of the number of acres in the
Creamer's Field Migratory Wildfowl Refuge
D = The number of ducks on the "Wildlife You May See" panel
E = The Wetland Trail length in miles, rounded to the nearest whole number
F = Twice the number of points on the ADF&G musk ox horns
G = The number of rodents on the "Wildlife You May See" (note, rabbits and hares are not rodents)
H = The number of raptors on the "Wildlife You May See" panel
I = The number of goose species on the Berry and West panels

Go this this location, which is at a common geobeacon. Project a waypoint 34m @ 32° true to a similar geobeacon and you will locate the container.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

1. Vs NQS naq T vf pybfrq, hfr gur pnpur cntr cubgbf. 2. Oreel naq Jrfg ner jvyqyvsr negvfgf. 3. "Ubg" ersref gb gur frnfba.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)