It Begins at the Pioneers Gate Mystery Cache
It Begins at the Pioneers Gate
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Listed coordinates are for the "Pioneers' Gate." One of the gated entrances to Central Park. Each gate was named by Olmsted and Vaux, the park's designers, for the type of person they anticipated entering the park from that area. The cache is not there, but is a short walk away.
There's a legend about a group of nine pioneer wagons left New York, headed for the mid-western plains to resettle. The Wagon Master made it clear that he was pretty particular about how the wagons were to be arranged in the camp each night, and that the family in the wagon that cracked his code would be
given the choicest homestead when they arrived at their destination, 10 weeks later. But, after the first week, the Wagon Master fell ill. The nine wagons only had his partial notes on how to arrange things.
Each wagon had been assigned a symbol: a cactus, a horseshoe, or a gun, in one of three colors, brown, green or gold. The wagon master's notes consisted of 3x3 grids, whole or partial. In each he had indicated either a color, a symbol, or the complete colored symbol. He left enough notes to cover the entire 10 week trip. One row of grids equalled one week. There would be only one way to arrange the 9 wagons in order to satisfy the set of grids for each week. Can you recreate the 10 campsites, and crack the Wagon Master's code? You won't get a homestead out of it... but you might get a smilie! Good Luck!
Once you have coords subtract .005 from the north and .013 from the west!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
[CACHE] Obyg va gur jbbq cbfg bs gur srapr