The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry is commonly known as the Scottish Rite. It is one of several appendant groups of the worldwide fraternity known as Freemasonry. Each Valley has up to four Scottish Rite bodies, and each body confers a set of degrees. In the Southern Jurisdiction these are the Lodge of Perfection (4°–14°), Chapter of Rose Croix (15°–18°), Council of Kadosh (19°–30°), and the Consistory (31°–32°). The Supreme Council confers the 33rd Degree of Sovereign Grand Inspector General.
The Scottish Rite is one of the two branches of Freemasonry in which a Master Mason may proceed after he has completed the three degrees of Symbolic or Blue Lodge Masonry. The other branch is known as the York Rite, consisting of Royal Arch Masons, Royal and Select Masters and the Knights Templar.
The Masonic Geocaching Society is dedicated to the tenets of the Craft by providing activities for Masons and the world at large that are fun and family friendly. Arguably, the Freemasons were the first geocachers.
Located near the Scottish Rite Temple in Washington, DC. The entire cartridge can be completed from the public sidewalk, no need to enter the Temple grounds.
The listed coordinates are for starting the cartridge NOT the cache.
You will need a device that is Wherigo capable like a Garmin Colorado, Oregon or GPS enabled Pocket PC with Wherigo Player installed.
More information about Wherigo can be found here: Wherigo Website
To hunt this cache, you must download the Wherigo cartridge "Scottish Rite Temple" here: Scottish Rite Temple
The Completion Code displayed at the end of the cartridge no longer seems to work to unlock the cartridge on the Wherigo website so I am no longer requiring it to log a find.
The cache container has no writing implement so BYOP. Please only initial the log to conserve space.
This Cache was placed by a Maryland Geocacher