AR 05 Scoter - Starveall Multi Multi-Cache

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Hidden : 10/12/2013
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This is one of a series of some one hundred and forty caches set along The Aylesbury Ring, a circular footpath that follows a thirty mile route round Aylesbury.

Under development since the early 1980s, more details can be found here. A Bucks CC leaflet with further information and points of interest along the route can be downloaded from here.

For the purpose of these caches, The Ring is divided into seven sections (each named after a species of duck), and each section is designed to be done in a clockwise direction; if you choose to do otherwise, you will be causing yourself much unnecessary back-tracking.

Most of the caches are stand-alone, but within each of the seven sections is a bonus cache for which you will have to collect information from the other caches within that section. This information is in the format A=1. The bonus information is not interchangeable between sections.

In addition there is a Golden Egg Bonus cache. To find this, you will also have to collect information from all sections, although not all caches (and none in the bonus caches). This information is in the format 1=LZ. Refer to the Golden Egg Bonus cache page for what to do once you have all this information.

There is a mixture of cache types and sizes, and a variety of different hides. Some are straightforward, others a little more tricky, but not one is a 35mm film canister under a rock at the bottom of a post - although ivy may feature on occasions!

Once you have found the majority of the series and logged them online, you will qualify to go for the AYLESBURY DUCK GOLDEN EGG BONUS, set somewhere within The Ring.

Now, onto this cache:

An easy multi, just collecting some information to determine the coordinates for the final. Standing at the published coordinates, how may chimney pots can you see? Let this be A. How many of them have a metal cover? This is B. How many have no cover? This is C.

A few yards further along the lane, following the footpath, turn left across the culvert and walk across the corner of the field to the far end of the barn. From here, how many green grain silos can you see? This is D. And how many black grain silos? Let this be E.

The cache is at N51° 48.(A-D) (BxB) D W0° 53.C E (A+C)

 Update 13 March 2015 - It has been necessary to move the cache a few meters, so when you have calculated the coordinates, subtract .002 from the northings and add .010 to the westings.

As so many people seem to have a problem collecting the values for A B and C, here are two tips:
1 - as instructed above stand at the published co-ordinates to count - standing elsewhere may give a different count!
2 - a checksum for values A plus B plus C is eleven.

Additional Hints (No hints available.)



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