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A new and improved zoo
cache!
This multi-cache at
Woodland Park Zoo replaces an earlier one (GCRRWP) that had
two faults: it could be (and was) shortcutted (i.e., found
and logged without visiting the zoo) and the final was a
micro. This new and improved version has more waypoints,
requires photographic evidence of having gone to the zoo, and
ends at a container that we will keep stuffed with small
animals for taking/trading. Hopefully that will entice
families with kids to do the cache.
From Wikipedia:
The Woodland Park Zoo, which occupies the western half of Woodland
Park on Green Lake, began as a small menagerie on the Woodland Park
estate of Guy C. Phinney, Canadian-born lumber mill owner and real
estate developer. Opened in 1889, the 188-acre Woodland Park was
sold to the city for $5,000 in cash and the assumption of a $95,000
mortgage on December 28, 1899, by Phinney's wife (Phinney had died
six years earlier, in 1893). The sum was so large that the Seattle
mayor vetoed the acquisition, only to be over-ruled by the city
council. In 1902, the Olmsted Brothers firm of Boston was hired to
design the city's parks, including Woodland Park, and the next year
the collection of the private Leschi Park menagerie was moved to
Phinney Ridge. As of 2004, the zoo includes 65 acres (263,000 m²)
of exhibits and public spaces. It is open to the public daily, and
an entrance fee is required. Its collection includes: * 1,145
animal specimens * 290 animal species * 22 arthropod colonies *
7,000 trees * 50,000+ shrubs and herbs * 1,000+ plant species
Woodland Park Zoo had 1,085,868 visitors in 2003.
There are a total of six
waypoints for you to visit around the zoo - they are all listed
below. At five of them, you will look for information to help you
find numbers necessary to compute the coordinates to the final. At
one of them - Z2, the PIX waypoint - you will find a set of gallows
with the bodies of spiders and a head hole where you place your
face and have a picture taken. IN ORDER TO LOG THIS CACHE YOU MUST
SUBMIT A PICTURE TAKEN OF YOU AT ONE OF THE SPIDER BODIES. See
picture below for an example. (If you are reticent to have your
photo posted on the web, merely send me the photo directly as proof
and that will suffice)
The posted coordinates are for the West parking lot. If you park
there and enter the West Gate, I recommend the following order for
the waypoints: Z3, Z4, Z5, Z6, Z2, Z1. If you park in the much
larger south lot, consider doing the waypoints in this order: Z1,
Z2, Z3, Z4, Z5, Z6.
Once you've collected all the numbers, find a comfy seat and do a
little math:
North = 47 39.(A+B)(A+D-E)(F-G) West = 122 21.(H-I)(J+K)(N-L-M)
checksum (all 15 digits): 45
7/30/06 - correction made to formula - North coordinate was off by
.010
The final is located outside the zoo but within the broad confines
of Woodland Park
Enjoy your Day at the Zoo!
OK, I've waited long enough to congratulate them: A big WooHoo to
The Mercury Project and FunnyNose for their workday FTF!
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