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This is a puzzle geocache. There is no container or relevant information at the posted coordinates.
The United States has 63 National Parks. All of these parks have different beauty between each other. The oldest is Yellowstone (1872), and the newest is New River Gorge (2020). Each National Park has a 4 digit “Alpha Code.” The Alpha codes are made up of the first four letters of the park name. But if the park has more than one word, it takes the first two letters of the first two words. But there are some exceptions.
Examples:
1 word: Yosemite - yose
2 word: Petrified Forest - pefo
2+ word: Black Canyon of the Gunnison - blca
Exception: Carlsbad Caverns - cave
I will hide a geocache to honor all of these parks. I will do 6 groups of 10 caches. Each of these are a puzzle with 6 questions.
I used Wikipedia for this information. Also say in your log if you have been to this park. If you have, please post pictures.
FTF Prize:
This is 1 of 8 caches in nsearls25's nps series that were given away as FTF prizes at KCSearcher's GC8M906 - CCE: DeLorme Challenges + State County Challenges event. For those attendees that received this as a prize, they had an 8 day head start on those that didn’t attend the event. The prize winners were instructed to sign the log in the “Pre-Publication FTFer(s)” space.
However, for the FTF Hounds that were not able to attend, they too had the opportunity to be FTF on this cache after publication that was targeted for Sunday, November 6, 2022 @ or around 8:00 AM Pacific Time. All they had to do is find the cache and be first to sign in the “Post-Publication FTFer(s)” space on the log.
Thanks CarlottaP for helping check the puzzles.
The final container is at: N 37° 59.ABC W 122° 07.DEF
A. Yellowstone National Park is the world's oldest National Park, established March 1, 18A2 by President S. Ulysses Grant.
B. Yellowstone National Park is located above the Yellowstone Caldera,the largest volcanic system in North America. It has been termed a "supervolcano" because the caldera was formed by exceptionally large explosive eruptions. The magma chamber that lies under Yellowstone is estimated to be a single connected chamber, about 37 miles long, B8 miles wide, and 3 to 7 miles deep.
C. 96% of Yellowstone National Park is located within the state of Wyoming, 1% of the park is located in the state Idaho, and C% of the park is located in the state of Montana.
D. Yellowstone contains at least D0,000 thermal features altogether, including geysers, hot springs, mudpots, and fumaroles. Old Faithful is the most famous of these geysers. Old Faithful is not the largest or tallest geyser, but it is the most predictable geyser, erupting about every 90 minutes with about 90% accuracy in prediction time.
E. The Zone of Death is the 5E-square-mile area in the Idaho section of Yellowstone National Park in which, as a result of a reported loophole in the Constitution of the United States, a person could theoretically avoid conviction for any major crime, up to and including murder.
F. The wolves of Yellowstone National Park have been used to study the relations between different species, and how the amount of wolves affect everything from moose, to the trees that grow in the park. A survey conducted in 2005 reported that there were 1F wolf packs, totaling 118 individuals in Yellowstone and 326 in the entire ecosystem.
Congrats to kittyshrink, laurab, and rideappy for the Pre-FTF!
and Congrats to RV CREW, Virgojams, and dkata for the Post-FTF!
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