The container is a small green container with a screw-on top. It
contains only a log sheet and is hidden in the branches of a tree,
slightly above eye level. Bring your own pencil or pen.
Paris Hilton spends a lot of time flying back and forth between
the parties and premieres in Los Angeles and the shops and cafes of
her namesake city in France. Her beleagured pilot got tired of
answering his famous passenger's questions of "Aren't we THERE
yet?" and "How much longer?". He realized that he could answer
these questions more quickly if he didn't have to use both
latitudes and longitudes to calculate the answers. He developed a
new coordinate system based on the route he followed on these
trips. Like the familiar system of longitudes and latitudes, the
pilot's new coordinates are based on degrees and minutes with two
orthogonal sets of reference lines. However, in this system, the
point (0°, 0°) is no longer off the western coast of Africa;
instead, it is the halfway point on the trip from Los Angeles to
Paris. The airports of both cities lie on the new equator that also
passes through that midpoint. (See the waypoints for coordinates of
the airports.) Now, the pilot can estimate distances on the flight
by using only one dimension.
The pilot gave the name Paris Hilton's Coordinate Lines, or
PHCL, to his new coordinate system. He tried to explain it to Ms.
Hilton, but she thinks that "coordinate" means that her purse
matches her shoes, so she didn't understand the system. The pilot
realized that he had to assign new directions, since North, South,
East, and West were no longer relevant, and those new directions
would have to make sense to his geographically less-talented
employer. He used the letters PHCL again to indicate the new
directions. Travel parallel to the new equator was either L (for
Los Angeles-bound) or P (for Paris-bound) relative to the new (0°,
0°). Travel perpendicular to the new equator was either H for "Hot"
or C for "Cold". That way, if Paris is invited to a party on South
Beach in Miami, she could say, "That's Hot!" and she would be
correct. It is important to note that, in Paris's world, everything
is perfect, so the Earth is a beautiful round sphere. Also, Paris
never flies on those icky commercial airliners with stopovers and
delays. Instead, she flies on a private jet between cities using
the shortest possible route.
The cache is at H 13° 4.200' L 22° 0.913'