A little update to my last post about Geocaching. Simon and I have found all the caches within walking distance around the office and a fair few beyond. Simon’s cache count is 35 found, I’m not too far behind with 31.
We thought it was about time that we created our own cache with a twist. This week we posted ‘The Fallen Few’ which is a three stage ‘multi-cache’. Should anyone interested care to attempt it you can either visit the global geocaching website or use the information here; if you don’t have a GPS you can borrow one of ours.
N 53° 27.813 W 002° 17.341
The above co-ordinates will take you to the start of the quest, it is around 1 mile from here to the finish (nice easy walk).The cache itself is the standard clik lok box containing the log book, pencil and the usual variety of goodies!
The journey starts with 3 sporting heroes.
On the plaque beneath them are just six words.
Count the number of characters in each word and then use those numbers:
1st word = A
2nd word = B
3rd word = C
4th word = D
5th word = E
6th word = F
N53° (B -D) (C) . (C – A) (B + D – C – E) (F – B)
W002° (D – A) (A + D). (C) (A + B) (F)
Following the new co-ordinates will take you to some more heroes of another kind. On the large centre plaque there are columns of names. You will be finding surnames and again, count the number of characters in each name and use those numbers. You will also need to keep the results from the first task to help you solve the second.
1st column, 4th name down = G
4th column, 1st name down = H
7th column, 5th name up from bottom = J
N53° (J – G) (C) . (H – A – B) (G ) (G + A)
W002° (G – D) (J). (J) (J) (B – D)
These last set of co-ordinates will take you to where the cache is hidden.
