According to the web site http://www.vta.org/highways/rte85101n.htm
“Mainline weaving operations” refers to the competing
movements of cars trying to enter and exit the freeway on the same
stretch of roadway. This project will separate these traffic
movements by modifying interchange ramps, constructing a new
freeway-to-freeway connector and adding special auxiliary lanes to
provide additional room for motorists entering or exiting the
freeway.
This highway improvement project is supposed to be finished in
early 2006.
Waypoint 1: The posted coordinates. Take a moment to look
east and see how much progress has been made since I placed the
cache. Find the pole nearby and observe that it is labeled with a
series of digits and letters arranged in a vertical column, as
follows:
DIGIT = A
LETTER
DIGIT = B
DIGIT = C
DIGIT = D
Look straight up and observe a two-digit number. Let
E = the smaller of these digits
and let F = the larger of these
digits.
Waypoint 2: Walk 180 feet true south from waypoint
1. Find the writing on the concrete wall nearby.
Underneath the words “NORTH-SHORELINE BLVD
O.C.” there are five digits, arranged as GH-IJK.
Compute the digits of the final coordinates as follows:
T = A - I + F
U = B + G - K
V = C + I - E
X = D - A + E
Y = F + G + I
Z = H + J - A
The cache is located at:
N 37° 24.TUV W 122°
04.XYZ
The cache is a little over a mile walk from the posted
coordinates. As you approach, you can enjoy viewing the interchange
project from a different angle. I particularly like the
artistically embellished concrete facade. Bring something to write
with.
June 9, 2006 — I should have hidden an ammo
box here, but I was just a newbie and I was dying to hide this cute
bison tube I had, so that’s what you have to find. Sorry. And the
high tension wires overhead seem to mess up people’s reception, so
you really have to work to get a handle on ground zero. Sorry
again. The hide is kind of clever, though. Do not go into the
blackberry or poison oak bushes; the cache is not
there.