In order to find this final cache, you will first need to find the six "legs" of the South Sound Boondoggle Series known as:
South Sound Boondoggle Series Leg 1
South Sound Boondoggle Series Leg 2 (The Big Bold Letter for Leg 2 is "B" (This leg is now archived)
South Sound Boondoggle Series Leg 3 (II) (The Big Bold Letter for Leg 3 is "G" (This leg is now archived)
South Sound Boondoggle Series Leg 4 (II) (The Big Bold Letter for Leg 4 (II) is "A" (This leg is now archived)
South Sound Boondoggle Series Leg 5 (The Big Bold Letter for Leg 5 is "X" (This leg is now archived)
South Sound Boondoggle Series Leg 6
Glaringly displayed in the contents of each of the six cache "legs" is a big bold letter.
Besides finding each of the cache "legs" and trading for the questionable junk inside them, your big mission is to "score" the much coveted letter of the alphabet contained within each so that you end up with all six of these "priceless" letters. For not until you have "scored" all six of these letters can you use the formula/tables shown below to convert these six letters into the coordinates of the final cache.
OK ... you now have found all six cache "legs". You now have all six of these "priceless" letters of the alphabet. You now ask, "how do I convert these six letters to the coordinates of the final cache"? I'm glad you asked!
The answer is that you perform STEP1, STEP2 and STEP3 shown below:
STEP1
For each of the six letters, locate the corresponding "Mystery Number" shown in the table below and substitute that Mystery Number for the letter. You should now have six Mystery Numbers.
| Letter |
"Mystery Number"
|
| A |
75,243,120,652,834 |
| B |
65,344,998,015,752 |
| C |
55,496,523,995,657 |
| D |
88,429,016,475,498 |
| E |
47,754,385,723,554 |
| F |
101,385,684,658,564 |
| G |
97,566,133,451,402 |
| H |
72,596,238,673,598 |
| I |
67,475,853,457,002 |
| J |
85,487,437,345,006 |
| K |
71,339,945,787,223 |
| L |
59,547,548,435,789 |
| M |
68,498,764,376,599 |
| N |
95,452,002,546,743 |
| O |
56,458,734,567,547 |
| P |
62,487,684,576,567 |
| Q |
74,658,734,549,004 |
| R |
47,657,696.366.677 |
| S |
60,005,065,680,438 |
| T |
59,586,743,641,998 |
| U |
28,496,745,678,487 |
| V |
68,945,187,855,121 |
| W |
78,548,658,743,511 |
| X |
91,840,626,496,072 |
| Y |
82,658,756,793,076 |
| Z |
91,845,673,478,900 |
STEP2
Now .... simply sum the six Mystery Numbers. That is; just add the six Mystery Numbers together to form one big humongous number. Let's call this one big humongous number the Gigonumber.
STEP3
This Gigonumber will be fifteen (15) digits long (unless you made a Math Error - in which case, you're in a "World of Hurt" towards finding this final cache!)
How does one convert this 15 digit Gigonumber into the North and West Coords, you ask? I will answer this by using an example. Let's pretend that the Gigonumber that you came up with was 470,954,712,354,241. If that were to be the case (and, of course, it's not), then the coordinates of this final cache would be as follows:
N 47o 09.547
W 123o 54.241
Update January 6, 2020: This cache had to be moved slightly. Add the following offset numbers to the computed final coordinates as follows:
Add +.045 to the latitude coordinates
Subtract .009 from the longitude coordinates
OK, now that you have found the six cache "legs", have found the six letters in those caches, have converted the six letters to six numbers, have added the six numbers together to form the Gigonumber, then converted the Gigonumber to the coordinates of the final cache and then applied the offset numbers because of the Jan 6, 2020 update, get up off your computer chair and go find the cache!