ABA1:01 Mystery Cache

Welcome to the ABA (Abingdon to Bel Air) walking trail. This trail is loosely designed after the WNW (Westminster to New Windsor) Trail, but much shorter. Along this trail you can find a dozen or more caches. The puzzles are very, very easy, and local GeoCachers may not have to look up very many answers on the Internet. All questions can be answered by accessing information readily available on-line. Have fun! Be safe, particularly when crossing the road!

William Paca

The trail is approximately 3.5 miles – walkable in a couple or three hours, though the preferred method for most cachers is probably to solve all the so-called puzzles and to take two cars, dropping one at one end of the trail and driving the other to the other end. A considerable portion of your walk will be on sidewalks, or on low traffic roads. Many of the cache containers are of the same type, so you'll usually know what to look for. When you encounter nano or bison tube containers, please remember to replace logs by putting them into the UPPER halves of the cache container (the male parts, which have the threads on the OUTSIDE); then slip the female ends over logs as they protrude from the upper halves; and, finally, carefully screw the halves together. If logs extend from the bottom of the cache container above the threads, and if you place the logs into the bottom halves first, when you attach the upper halves, the logs will be scrunched and chewed up by the threads of the cache container. Thanks for being careful about this, as well as careful about not cross-threading the cache container, most of which are made of aluminum, a very soft metal and easily cross-threaded.

I hope you find this an enjoyable experience, whether you set out to complete it in one fell swoop or grapple with it in segments. Please be especially cautious when you're close to roads, and use common sense and good judgment at all times, particularly when you have to cross a street.

This cache's location is N 39° 29.A’ W 76° 19.B’. Find the values of A and B by choosing the right answers:

The founder of Abingdon was William Paca. He was

     A) born in Abingdon, Maryland (365) or Abingdon, England (613)

     B) the second governor of the state of Maryland (422) or a signer of the Declaration of Independence (156)