In early
2006, while browsing at a garage sale, I came across an old
journal. Being the
history buff that I am, I bought it, and took it
home. Only later,
did I discover it was the journal of the one and only Abraham
Anderson, Highway Robber Extraordinaire.
The journal was
from his later years, and was full of insane
ramblings. Early
in 1833, there is a passage where Abraham wrote about
discovering that a posse was being formed to arrest
him. Fearing the
inevitable, Abraham moved all of his loot out of his cave to
a spot farther into the woods. The entry even goes on to
say exactly where
he moved it to. Or at least, it mentions that he was
planning on going on to say exactly where he moved
it. It seems
that poor Abraham was interrupted mid-sentence by something,
and never finished writing.
Among other
things in the journal, there were many pictures involving complex
squares, and numbers.
It turns out that these were a type of Japanese number puzzles that
he was obsessed with.
I too have become
obsessed. I have
worked hard to master the art of the Japanese number puzzle
known as Sudoku, and in honor of Abraham, I have placed a cache
that requires some knowledge of the puzzle to find and
solve.
Now on to the important stuff:
You will first need to print out and solve the
Sudoku below:
After solving it, you can go to the coordinates
listed above. Parking coordinates are listed below, and are
the same as those listed for Anderson's Last Stash. You will
also be using the same trail, except you will want to be sure to be
on the bottom half of the loop, otherwise you'll have to do some
backtracking. When following the trail towards the first
stage, do not head uphill until after passing the stone wall, there
is a very subtle path up the hill next to the wall. Following
this should save you some bushwacking. NOTE: The
cache is NOT in the wall! At these coordinates, you
will find a small Rubbermaid container containing instructions on
how to get the coordinates. Be sure to bring your solved
Sudoku puzzle with you, you will need it to figure out the
coordinates when you reach this stage. You should put the
coordinates into this form:
N 40
°
BC.BDA
W 079
° AA.EAF
Simply get back on the
trail, and follow
it to within about 50 feet of the final cache. Once you
find it, I recomend getting back on the trail, and finishing the
loop. I think you'll enjoy it. And if you
haven't been to Anderson's Last Stash, it's on the way
back to the parking area.