Important: The given coordinates are
false, but within 3 km from the actual cache.
A patrol of merry boy scouts were out on a hike around the lake
Åsnen. Their leaders had told them to go to a speciffic beach. When
the scouts got there, they only found a pair of binoculars hanging
on a stick, and below the binoculars an arrow of pebbles told them
that a message could be found 150 meters away – across the
lake.
So Michael, who was the leader of the patrol, took the
binoculars and looked in the indicated direction. There, on the
other side of the lake, he caught sight of four scout leaders. One
of the leaders was looking back through another pair of binoculars,
and all leaders were waiving their hands. Michael and his friends
waved back. Then, suddenly, all the leaders stopped waiving and
three of them started opening and closing their jackets in some
sort of dance.
The boy scouts stood there looking for a while, contemplating
what was going on. After a while, the leaders stopped the "dance",
and started waiving again. When the scouts waved back, the leaders
started opening and closing their jackets again.
Michael quickly understood what was going on, brought out his
note book and a pen, and directed the other scouts to wait for the
leaders to start waving again, then the scouts should wave back at
the leaders and pay close attention to which leader was opening his
or her jacket in what order. Michael noted "L" for the left most
leader, "M" for the leader in the middle and "R" for the one on the
right. This is what he wrote in his note book:
M L R L L L L L R M L L L L R L M L L M L
R L L L M M R L L L L L R L M L M L M R M L L L L R M L L L L R M M
M M L R L M M M M L R L R L M M M M R L L L L M R L M L L M L R L L
L L M R L L L M M R L M L M L M R M M M M L R L L M M M R L M M M M
R L M M M M L
When Michael had written down the choreography of the "dance",
he quickly cracked the code, after which he brought out his GPSr
and entered a set of coordinates. After this, the boy scouts stood
up, faced the leaders, showed all their thumbs in the air and bowed
at the leaders. The leaders responded in the same way and sat down
to watch the patrol go towards the next stop on the hike.
Can you crack the code?
The cache is a round plastic box with the diameter 15 cm and the
hight 10 cm. Original contents: Logbook, pencil, a rubber duck, a
small horse, dices, a shape for ginger bread and a
geocaching.com-patch.
Please don't put any food, candy or
perfumed items in any caches - such things attract
animals.