The coordinates you're looking for are contained in the gibberish
at the bottom of this puzzle description. If you recognize what it
is, you know what to do, so you can stop reading. However, if
you're part of the great majority who doesn't recognize it
(although that ".jpg" thing might kind of ring a bell), don't fret.
It might look difficult or scary, but obtaining coordinates from
the gibberish is easier than you think!
Chances are, you already have the tools you need to unencode the
coordinates for this cache somewhere on your computer. By this, I
don't mean Internet access -- although free tools which can do the
decoding certainly can be found by Googling. Odds are, however,
that you won't have to Google very far.
Many software tools that you use every day -- for example, e-mail
and news readers, or data compression tools -- already do
understand all that gibberish. For many years now, data such as
pictures, graphics, audio, and even executable software has been
transmitted between computers in this encoded format. As a result,
software tools made for such uses have built-in ways to handle this
data -- often automatically.
A few hints about ways to make that happen ...
You'll want to copy the gibberish from this cache description and
save it as a file, in plain text format. To do this easily on a PC
running Windows, copy and paste the gibberish into the 'Notepad'
editor, and then save it. (Sometimes what you name the file can
affect how your tools handle it, but first things first -- save it
to disk.) After that, try some of the following, with and without
the tweak given in the file naming hint below:
(1) Attach the file to an e-mail message, and email it to
yourself. Getting the information might be as simple as reading the
email message. Various e-mail software packages will handle it
differently, so if this doesn't work with your e-mail software, it
just might work with an acquaintance's -- so you might also try
e-mailing it to others to see if it works on their end.
(2) Try opening the file using some compression software.
It's fairly common to have this kind of software installed on your
computer. WinZip is one package that is pretty well-known; I've
heard of others called Wincode and Stuffit Expander, and no doubt
there are many more.
(3) If you have some other kind of software that you think
will decode this, open the file using that software.
(4) If your attempts up until now haven't worked, take a
look at the note about file naming below. Changing your file
extension might make a difference ... but if it still doesn't,
there's always web-searching. Try looking for the proper 3-letter
file extension (again, see hint below), the words "encode" or
"decode", and perhaps 'begin 644' (all files encoded like this
begin with something similar). You should be able to find a free
utility to decode the file.
A note about file naming ... and another hint! When
you save the copied-and-pasted gibberish as a file, you might have
to give it the correct 3-letter filename extension in order for
your tools to properly deal with it. I won't tell you outright what
that is, but ... (a) It isn't ".txt". (b) The title
of this cache gives you a very good hint. (c) It isn't
".ods".
Good luck!
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