The cache is not at the posted coordinates, but within
2 km.
Don't Panic!
The Hitch
Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject
of towels. A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing
an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical
value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across
the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant
marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea
vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so
redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft
down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-
hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or
to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a
mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it,
it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave
your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry
yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More
importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some
reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch
hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he
is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of
biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet
weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will
then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other
items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the
strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and
breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible
odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a
man to be reckoned with.
Hence a phrase
that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass
that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his
towel is."
Quoted
from the guide
Towel Day is
celebrated every May 25 as a tribute by fans of the late author
Douglas Adams. On this day, fans carry a towel with them to
demonstrate their love for the books and the author. The
commemoration was first held in 2001, two weeks after Adams' death
on May 11, 2001. The towel is a reference to Adams's popular
science fiction comedy series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy.
The Cache
When you
find your towel you will have found some co-ordinates, use the
following to find the final cache co-ordinates:
Subtract 3.407397 Decimal degrees from the first part of the FOUND
co-ordinate.
Subtract 90.689263 Decimal degrees from the second part of the
FOUND co-ordinate.
The original
cache contents: toothbrush and toothpaste, shampoo, shower cap,
face flannel, soap, dental floss, pen, compass, flashlight, map,
ball of string, bungee cord, drink cooler, gnat spray, wet weather
gear, space suit (well not really). Oh, almost forgot, a log book
and pen...
Please feel free to take any of these items or lend the next
cacher any other items that the cacher might accidentally have
"lost".
There are 3 2 1 prizes (maps) in the
cache for the First, Second and Third to
find.
Congratulations to jodan for the solve and
FTF.
