Shangri-La Multi-Cache
Tricky Vicky & Mickey: Unable to maintain it
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The cache is an ammo box hidden on the slope of a mountain.
Legend has it that Shangri-La is Heaven on earth, a mystical,
exotic, dreamy landscape. In Lost Horizon, American novelist James
Hilton depicted Shangri-La as a wonderland in which people live in
harmony with nature and each other. This is a multicache that
should not take you more than an hour to complete. The co-ordinates
shown take you to a parking place from where you start your
adventure. Once there pass through the gate. You will have to pay a
small fee to enter, which helps to maintain the area.The gate is
open from 08:00 to 16:30 on weekdays and 08:00 to 17:00 on weekends
throughout the year. You will have to find the answers to the
following questions in order to arrive at the final cache site: 1.
What number of the alphabet is the third letter in the first name
of the person mentioned at S34 21.068 and E018 55.648? This is A.
2. In the wetland area, according to the description of WETLAND
KILLERS, what number is MINING? This is B. 3. At the location
S3421.001 and E018 55.600 is a thing you can rest on. What is the
number on the back of it? This is C. 4. At 34 20.988 and 018
55.636you will discover the year in which Tony Erlank was
born.Derive D from 193D. 5. In order to proceed and be in the pink
you will have to find what is at S34 20.964 and E018 55.628. Take
the last letter of the English name. What position in the alphabet
is it? This is E. This tree has unfortunately recently been felled
- the answer to E is 5. 6. Find the Porter memorial at S34 20.863
E018 55.766 and discover the origin of the cache name and also the
last clue to finding the final cache site. In the penultimate line
of the inscription on the plaque take the third letter of the first
word and assign to it it's numerical position in the alphabet.
(A=1,C=3 etc.) and call this F. Now take all the above clues and
put them in the formula to get to the final cache location at: S34
deg 20.(B+F)(D-B)(E-F) E018deg 5E.(C-D)(B-D)(D-A-F)
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Ybbx hc. Va n ubevmbagny pyrsg pbaprnyrq jvgu n srj fgbarf. Svaq gur evtug cngu naq lbh qb abg arrq gb ohaqh onfu. Nygvghqr nobhg 108z.
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