The cache is not at the listed coordinates though this would be a good place to park to do this cache. This is the 24th cache in the Are You Taz Enough Challenge.
This puzzle cache brings you to scenic Mount Hope Cemetery, America's first municipal Victorian cemetery. Here is a description from the Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery website:
Formed by glaciers, Mount Hope Cemetery's landscape features high hills and deep valleys, winding eskers and deep kettles. Since the cemetery's dedication in 1838, a third of a million people have taken permanent residence in this 198-acre site where you will find stately mausoleums dug deep into hillsides, and myriad examples of Victorian funerary art reaching toward the heavens. Stone and bronze monuments include soaring Egyptian obelisks, miniature Greek temples, winged angels of mercy, draped urns and broken columns, Gothic towers, and sculptures of everything from Christian saints to favorite pet dogs. They all gloriously decorate more than 375,000 graves that send a mighty chorus of hope heavenward. In fall and winter, Mount Hope becomes a rookery, and the trees appear fully leafed with crows. In summer, a high 1875 Florentine fountain cascades water from lions' mouths down through three basins held up by cast-iron caryatids.
Okay, I know I promised I was done with the tough puzzle caches in the challenge but this one was just screaming at me to get done and be included in the series. Mount Hope Cemetery is home to many of Rochester's famous residents. The amount of local history in this one scenic location is unmatched and I couldn't pass up on the opportunity to expose you to some of it.
Now it's time to see how well you know your Rochester history and to give your online (and in the field) searching skills some exercise. Below you will find 24 descriptions of some famous people from Rochester's past. Your task is to identify the person, find their grave and collect the information requested. Using this information you will then calculate the coordinates to the cache location. Sounds simple enough, right? Let the searching begin.
Helpful hint: When collecting information from "the right" or "the left", do this while facing the front (where the person's name is) of the grave or monument.
Now that you have finished collecting the information it's time to check to see if what you have is right. Use the following formulas to double check what you have:
29 = G1 + G2 + G3 + G4 + G5 + G6
38 = G7 + G8 + G9 + G10 + G11 + G12
56 = G13 + G14 + G15 + G16 + G17 + G18
49 = G19 + G20 + G21 + G22 + G23 + G24
And now use the following to calculate the final coordinates of the cache:
N 43 07.ABC, W 077 36.XYZ
A = G1 + G10 - G17 + G18 - G23 - G24 + G19
B = (G2 * G15) - G21 - G8 + ((G3 * G12) - G14)
C = G3 + G12 + G19 - G23 - (G6 * G16)
X = G3 + (G4 * G7) - G19 - G20 - G22
Y = G5 + G9 + G11 + G18 - G13 - G23
Z = G6 + ((G3 + G14 + G18 - G19) * G16)
Please remember that this is a cemetery and to be respectful at all times while you are on the premise. At no time do you need to touch, move or doing anything else with the graves. The posted hours are dawn to dusk.
The cache is a small lock-n-lock container hidden in a typical cache location that should not be very hard to find. Please stay away from any graves while searching for the final. Also, please be discreet while searching so as not to give the hide away to any muggles or lurking cachers. Once you've located the cache, add your name to the log book and when you write your online log/note for the find please include the number beside your log entry. Please only one cacher per line in the log book. There is a "lammy" and an unactivated geocoin for the FTF.
This is a gentle reminder that hints/help should not be given out for the first week after publication. Also, there is no need to bring along your caching buddies to help you while you try to locate this elusive cache. I think each of you can work your way through this one with a little persistence. Because this is an AYTE Challenge cache I will be holding off giving any hints for a period of one week after publication. I will be happy to be of assistance after a week (assuming the cache has already been found).
Congratulations to Determined Doe on FTF!!!
You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.