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Little Totham Swan - 1.5 Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 9/14/2009
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:

This is a figure of 8 tour of 5 fairly gentle geocaches around the village of Little Totham (Little Totham Swan - 1,1.5,2,2.5,3).
Total distance is approximately 3.5 miles.

Caches 1.5 and 2.5 were added on September 15, 2009 to add cache-value to the walk.


Other Schoolfrenz caches are listed here

The coordinate quoted for Little Totham Swan - 1 is for the starting point - The Swan public house (a famous CAMRA pub).

Coordinates for other caches in this series are merely non-significant points on the route.

Swan PH

The map below shows the full route as an extract from OS 1:50000 map number 168.

The full list of waypoints is available from Little Totham Swan - 1

Little Totham Swan - Figure of 8 Route

Little Totham Swan - 1 Cache

Original contents: Cache notice; Cache card; Notepad log book; Pencil; Pencil sharpener; Phone charm; USB memory dongle; VW keyring; Sound sensitive keyring and spare batteries

Note the digits of the phone box number outside the pub (01621 abcccd).

Now take the footpath which starts to the right of the pub.

Cache 1 is located at:

51° 46.(c+d)(b)(b-a+d)'N
0° 44.(b-a-c)(b-d)(2d)'E

which is further along the route.

You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.

Little Totham Swan - 1.5 Cache

Between wayponts 8 and 10 look for a magnetic nano at "a fairly unsafe place to sit".
(A cache & dash for geocachers who did the original LTS series)

Little Totham Swan - 2 Cache

Original contents: Cache notice; Cache card; Notepad Log book; Pencil; Compass keyring; Yoyo

Just after you join Office Lane (waypoint 08) there is a telegraph pole immediately on the right (waypoint 09). The grey plate (below the numbers 06) contains the number efeghf where e, f, g and h are digits.

Cache 2 is located at:

51° 45.(e+d)(f-h)(b-d-g)'N
0° 43.(c+f)(a-c)(f-e)'E

which is further along the route.

You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.

Little Totham Swan - 2.5 Cache

Between waypoints 18 and 25 you will find a magnetic nano at a place that has "seven instances of ¾".
(A cache & dash for geocachers who did the original LTS series)

Little Totham Swan - 3 Cache

Original contents: Cache notice; Strip log book; Pencil; Phone charm; 10 Kronor; 4 plastic cars

At the hydrant sign at waypoint 20, note the single digit in the top part of the H - this is digit i; note the single digit in the bottom part of the H - this is digit j.
At the hydrant sign at waypoint 21, note the two digits in the top part of the H - these are digits k and l.
At the hydrant sign at waypoint 23, note the two digits in the top part of the H - these are digits m and n; note the single digit in the bottom part of the H - this is digit o.

Cache 3 is located at:

51° 46.(i-j)(c+k)(l-h-1)'N
0° 43.(c+m)(i+n)(h+o-e+7)'E

which is further along the route.

You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.

At the end of the last footpath turn left at the road to take you back to the starting point.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

1 - Yrnsyrgrq ehaare (Nantenz 5,6,4) 1.5 - Raynetrq gbrf (Nantenz 3,5,4) 2 - Jurry sbe ybgvba (Nantenz 2,6,2,4) 2.5 - Fcbgf tva (Nantenz 8) 3 - Geroyr jbbs (Nantenz 4,2,4)

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)