Fallen Not Forgotten Mystery Cache
Hidden : 2/5/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:


Geologists speculate that the Old Man of the Mountain, formed by a retreating glacier during the last ice age, looked out over Profile Lake for more than 12,000 years. On May 3, 2003, the delicate balance that had held the "Great Stone Face" in position through the ages came to an abrupt end. I was saddened by the loss of this state treasure and wish my daughters and future children could have had the opportunity to see the old man like I did growing up.
  17th millennium BC–6th millennium BC — An ice sheet recedes from North America, substantially reshaping the mountains, rerouting the rivers, and creating lakes and ponds found on the northern part of the continent.
  1805 — Francis Whitcomb and Luke Brooks, part of a Franconia surveying crew, are the first white settlers to record observing the Old Man, according to the official New Hampshire history.
  1869 — President Ulysses S. Grant visits the formation.
  1906 — The Reverend Guy Roberts of Massachusetts is the first to publicize signs of deterioration of the formation.
  1916 — New Hampshire Governor Rolland H. Spaulding begins a concerted state effort to preserve the formation.
  1945 — The Old Man is made the New Hampshire State Emblem.
  1955 — President Dwight D. Eisenhower visits the profile as part of the Old Man's 150th "birthday" celebration.
  1958 — Major repair work to the Old Man's forehead as a result of a legislative appropriation the previous year.
  1965 — Niels Nielsen, a state highway worker, becomes unofficial guardian of the profile, in an effort to protect the formation from vandalism and the ravages of the weather.
  1986 — Vandalizing the Old Man is classified as a crime under the state criminal mischief law. Under the law (RSA 634:2 VI) it is a misdemeanor for any person to vandalize, deface or destroy any part of the Old Man, with a penalty of a fine of between $1,000 and $3,000 and restitution to the state for any damage caused.
  1987 — Nielsen is named the official caretaker of the Old Man by the state of New Hampshire.
  1988 — A 12-mile (19 km) stretch of Interstate 93 (which also runs jointly with U.S. Route 3 through the notch) opens below Cannon Mountain. The $56 million project, which took 30 years to build, was a compromise between the government's desire for a four-lane interstate and environmentalists who sought to limit impact on the notch.                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1991 — David Nielsen, son of Niels Nielsen, becomes the official caretaker of the Old Man.
 2000 — The Old Man is featured on the state quarter of New Hampshire.
 2003 — The Old Man collapses.

"Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men."
 -Daniel Webster

The above coordinates do not take you to the cache, but to the place where you will have to solve the puzzle below in order to get the final coords.

N 43 27.ABC
A = The last number of the year Niels Neilson was named the OFFICIAL caretaker of the Old Man
B = The month the Old Man of the mountain fell
C = the number of letters in Gerald Douglas (blank) last name. It’s on a grave stone you can’t miss.
 
W 072 22.XYZ
X = 2001 (minus) the year NH featured the Old Man on the state quarter
Y = The year President Ulysses S Grant visits the Old Man (minus) 800 (divided by) 178.14 (then drop the decimals)
Z = 32-3

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