CACHE LOCATION CLUES - PORTERWOOD TO PARSONS - CACHES 15 and 16
Welcome to Porterwood Station N39.04.240 W079.42.016.
Cache #15 Clues: Observing from around the Porterwood Station display board..
1. What is the three digit number on mail box?
2. What is the route number of Shavers Fork Road on street sign?
3. Subtract 33
Total above & write it here_____________
Use this number with Porterwood North to compute new North coords below.
4. Arrange the two numbers involved in IRS taxdeadline day to form a three digit
number.
5. Revolutionary war slogan - “Spirit of __ __”
6 Add 1.
Total above & write it here_______________
Use this number with PorterwoodWest to compute new West coords below.
WRITE DOWN THESE NEW COORDS N39.04.____ W079.41.____ AND
FIND CACHE #15.
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR CACHE #16:
To get the coordinates for Cache #16, you will need to catch some numbers from
three reference points between Caches #15 and #16.
Reference point #7- N39.04.624 W079.41.521
Reference point #8 - N39.04.892 W079.41.642
Reference point #9 - N39.05.288 W079.41.189
Cache #16 - continued
1. Middle three digits in a phone number on a sign at
Reference point #7, divided by 2.
2. First two digits of 4-digit number on Reference point #8.
3 Subtract 11.
Total above & write it here_____________
Use this number with Cache 15 North to compute new North coords below.
4. First three digits of the six-digit number on Reference
point #8.
5. First three digits on a building at Reference point #9.
6. Subtract 49.
Total above & write it here___________
Use this number with Cache 15 West to compute new West coords below.
WRITE DOWN THESE NEW COORDS N39.05.____ W079.40.____
AND FIND CACHE #16
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If Cache #16 is open, stop in
and say hello, tell them you’re geocachers, and they will give you a clue to
Cache #17.
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Caches #17 thru #19 are found between trail stations at Bretz and Hendricks.
Bretz Station is 1.08 miles from Cache #16, thru the city of Parsons. At the end
of the second bridge, on the right, look for a sign saying “Forest Service -
Nursery Bottom.”
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Click HERE to go to the next section - Bretz to Hendricks