niraD: The people I knew and worked with at the Lions Blind Center... er, I mean, at the Santa Clara Valley Blind Center... er, I mean, at Vista Center San Jose are no longer working there, and I can't get a response from the people who now work there. My maintenance plan is therefore no longer viable, so it's time to archive this puzzle cache.
Puzzle Solution
The cache was published on January 4, which is Louis Braille's birthday. Louis Braille invented the braille writing system, a tactile writing system used by blind people. The dots of a braille cell (a single braille symbol) are arranged like this:
1 4
2 5
3 6
Each number (group of digits) in the puzzle represents a braille symbol, and the numbers in the puzzle translate into English braille as follows:
6=[capital] 1345=[n] 0=[space]
145=[d] 1245=[g] 3456=[number] 14=[c/3] 1245=[g/7] 0=[space]
134=[m] 35=[in] 3456=[number] 1=[a/1] 24=[i/9] 46=[decimal] 15=[e/5] 14=[c/3] 14=[c/3] 0=[space]
6=[capital] 2456=[w] 0=[space]
145=[d] 1245=[g] 3456=[number] 1=[a/1] 12=[b/2] 1=[a/1] 0=[space]
134=[m] 35=[in] 3456=[number] 15=[e/5] 124=[f/6] 46=[decimal] 245=[j/0] 14=[c/3] 245=[j/0]
Thus, the puzzle translates into:
N dg#37 min#19.533 W dg#121 min#56.030
In English braille, numbers are represented by a number symbol, followed by one or more of the letters a through j, which thus represent the digits 1 through 0. And units are specified before the number symbol, so dg#cg is 37 degrees.
The final coordinates N 37° 19.533 W 121° 56.030 are at the base of the Turning Point sculpture in the parking lot at the Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired in San Jose. Vista Center San Jose was formerly the Santa Clara Valley Blind Center, which was formerly the Lions Blind Center.
The container was originally a small-size beach safe camouflaged with gravel, placed under the corner of the Turning Point sculpture. After the landscaping was redone during parking lot renovations, that container was replaced by a small-size fake rock, painted to match the rocks at the base of the sculpture. After my last one of those containers deteriorated and broke, I replaced it with a micro-size hide-a-key fake rock. That container appears to have been lost during more recent parking lot renovations. I now live across the country, and as mentioned, my maintenance plan is no longer viable, so I am archiving this puzzle cache.