Today is day number 365 of my cache-a-day adventure!
I have found at least 1 cache everyday for the last 365 straight days, and what a wild year it has been! I started this adventure with a small challenge by RheS called "Cache-a-Day 100 Day Streak Illinois Challenge" (GC1VYJP) and then I just figured I was almost 1/3 of the way through the year so why not keep it going.
The worst day of all was February 2, 2011 - Snowpocalypse-2011! I was snowed in and the closest cache was 2 miles from my house in a forest preserve, Great! So I walked the 2 miles in 20" of snow. I arrived at the cache signed in and thought I was going to die, I didn't have snow shoes, and now I had to walk back home. I made it home, but for the next week my legs were killing me. For the most part it wasn't too bad, but it's going to stop soon.
So, to find the real coordinates to this cache use the following caches to get the clues needed for the formula below:
Counting Down - 10 (04-16-11)
Counting Down - 9 (04-17-11)
Counting Down - 8 (04-18-11)
Counting Down - 7 (04-19-11)
Counting Down - 6 (04-20-11)
Counting Down - 5 (04-21-11)
Counting Down - 4 (04-22-11)
Counting Down - 3 (04-23-11)
Counting Down - 2 (04-24-11)
Use this formula to find the final:
N 41° ZY.XWV
W 088° 0U.TSR
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
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Congrats to moodygrrl on the FTF!
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I would like to send out a great big THANK YOU to Abe Froman for taking the extra time to publish this series for me one everyday for the last 10 days. Keep up the great work Abe!
UPDATE 05/30/2011:
The cache-a-day streak is over! Today is day 400 in a row and tomorrow I will not be finding a cache. I told my wife I was going to stop and 400 seemed like a nice number.