Geocaching

[Lodgecrest]

I've just released my Silver isis coin as a travel bug to travel the world and tell everyone about the Isis Hunt. Check it out. or go up pick it up if you like but please do not keep it!


ref number:- TB1CT45

[colin@tina]

hopefully it will go a long away way

[Karen_G]

That is a great idea Please post updates

Best of luck with it,

Karen

[ChadH]

That's great.
I doubt I'll get a chance to get down there before it goes. I'm going to keep an eye on it though

[ChadH]

Hmm, I've got a cache location that I'm a bit stuck on. This is taken from cache GCTX0H.

The puzzle can be solved with the aid of the following paragraph, and this must be solved to obtain the correct co-ordinates for this cache.

"At one time deep wells were a common source of supply for towns. Borings made into the chalk and New Red Sandstone yielded an excellent water, which was pumped up into large tanks placed at the top of a water-tower, so as to obtain the necessary head. In some cases, however, it was found extremely difficult to meet the requirements of steadily growing towns; borings could not be increased indefinitely as each one drained a considerable area, and wells sunk in gravel-beds are now being given up for the supply of large towns, but are still retained for small communities, such as prisons, asylums, etc."

6 9 2 9 8 2 9 2 3 0 3 1 8 9 2 7 0 5 3 1 1 5 1 5 9 7 2 0 1 2 5 1 3 3 8 1 0 2 2 6 6 2 5 4 3 3 2 4 2 7 5 5 2 2 9 7 3 7 9 1 3 7 2 0 5 5 4 0 4 8 6 3 4 9 4 4 6 1 9 3 4 9 8 2 9 4 2 6 5 6 7 2 4 6 2 2 5 0 4 5 2 1 8 2 1 2 7 5 9 4 3 5 3 1 7 9 2 9 6 1 3 7 1 6 5 5 7 6 2 0 9 3 6 5 6 5 1 1 8 9 1 9 3 4 9 8 2 9 4 2 6 5 6 7 2 4 6 2 2 8 0 3 5 1 2 8 0 2 6 3 1 5 1 1 6 7 3 0 2 1 1 3 4 9 5 3 1 2 1 4 1 2 5 4 3 5 5 4 5 0 5 3 2 5 8 6 3 3 4 5 3 1 2 6 4 4 1 6 4 5 4 3 1 4 6 3 6 2 0 3 1 6 8 2 4 8 1 6 3 1 1 8 2 6 7 3

The original page shows the numbers as symbols, but that was because of the font - it is supposed to be changed to a different font so that you can see the numbers.

I'm 95% sure that the solution will look something like this:

north five two point zero zero point five six zero west zero zero zero point one nine point nine six three

And I'm 99% sure that 3 numbers corresponds to 1 letter of the solution.

If anyone can point me in the right direction on this one, I would be very grateful.

There's also a second one (GCTX0D) which has a similar clue but a slightly different method of solving it. I'm hoping that a nudge in the right direction for one of them will help me solve both.

Cheers,

Chad

PS I found an incredibly useful Ordnance Survey overlay for Google Earth. It's a kml file which when enabled, displays OS maps for the area you're looking at (they take a little while to show up, so be patient). They're really useful for locating public footpaths to a cache location. The overlay can be downloaded from http://www.brock-family.org/gavin/google-earth/.

[Big Brian]

I solved a simiular one you had to take the numbers in pairs andmake a graph with axis of 9. Then you plotted the co ordinates i.e. (6,9) (2,9) when you came to ( 7 )a set of numbers you had already plotted you started again. I ended up with loads of little graphs and the outline of the numbers took a little artistic licence but hey ho it was a grat puzzle to solve.
I havent tried it with these numbers so have a go, nought to loose, except your sanity! lol

[ChadH]

Got the answer to both caches now, and I'm pleased to say I solved it completely by myself

[ChadH]

Got my first FTF today

Link

[thelightjockey]

Got my first FTF today
Link

Congrats..

[ChadH]

I've just released my Silver isis coin as a travel bug to travel the world and tell everyone about the Isis Hunt. Check it out. or go up pick it up if you like but please do not keep it!


ref number:- TB1CT45

Somebody picked it up today.

[ChadH]

Just read the log - it sounds like it's off to Singapore

[Lodgecrest]

Hey I'm off on my holidays

[ChadH]

Does anybody know of a cache big enough for me to fit in. I'll stick one of those tags round my ear. Singapore, here we come!!

[LouIsis]

Nice try, but you could just as well end up in somone's backpack or on a desktop for a few weeks, and then be dropped in a virtual cache.
The life of a travelbug is very uncertain, especially if it looks good.

[thelightjockey]

Madagascar 3 (Rico) stayed in my bag for 9 months until I found a cache big enough to stash it in. Logged it in about four or five randoms just to indicate it had been (and was still) with me.