Through The Looking-Glass Multi-cache
Through The Looking-Glass
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THIS IS A CHALLENGING MULTI-WAYPOINT CACHE WHICH IS INTENDED TO BE DONE USING ONLY YOUR GPSr, A PENCIL AND PAPER, AND IT CAN BE PERFORMED IN ONE TRIP OF LESS THAN 3 HOURS.
I will buy a beer at the upcoming Ottawa event cache for anyone who solves this one as intended . Use of a computer either hooked up to a GPSr in the field, or at home, and using software such as MapSource, will make the solution too easy, and is to be frowned upon. If you resort to such underhanded methods, no beer will be forthcoming (but, in that case you can buy me a beer...heh,heh,heh).
Go to the posted coordinates (N45 27.208 W075 32.226). There you will be redirected by a label to the next waypoint which also has a redirect label. Continue in this fashion until you reach a waypoint which has two labels. All labels contain the minute portion of the north coordinate followed by the minute portion of the west coordinate. N45 degrees and W075 degrees is implied.
When you reach the waypoint with two labels you will then have to prepare yourself to enter WONDERLAND! Imagine a huge vertical looking-glass (mirror) whose bottom straight edge rests on the ground and runs along the line defined by the locations given by the two labels. This looking-glass has the property such that any object a certain distance in front of the looking-glass will have an image apparently behind the looking-glass, but only one-third of that distance away from it. Your problem then is to project yourself from the location of the two labels, through the looking-glass to your mirror image, where you will find the cache. You may project yourself by any means, including magic and teleporters. Gook luck! If you don't find the cache you may turn into a mad hatter!
The cache is well-hidden in the vines of a large multi-trunked maple tree. There are wild grape vines in Wonderland, and one of the creatures there has left evidence of its meal at the foot of the maple tree which contains the cache. It was not a white rabbit!
In your logs and pictures, please avoid giving any clues as to the location of the cache. (Hey, I can only afford so much beer...LOL!)
PLEASE do not include spoilers in your logs. Logs with spoilers will be deleted immediately. If you believe there is any problem with the cache setup, please advise me privately by e-mail so that I may fix them if necessary.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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