This is a puzzle geocache. There is no container or relevant information at the posted coordinates.
The United States has 62 National Parks. All of these parks have different beauty between each other. The oldest is Yellowstone (1872), and the newest is White Sands (2019). Each National Park has a 4 digit “Alpha Code.” The Alpha codes are made up of the first four letters of the park name. But if the park has more than one word, it takes the first two letters of the first two words. But there are some exceptions.
Examples:
1 word: Yosemite - yose
2 word: Petrified Forest - pefo
2+ word: Black Canyon of the Gunnison - blca
Exception: Carlsbad Caverns - cave
I will hide a geocache to honor all of these parks. I will do 6 groups of 10 caches. Each of these are a puzzle with 6 questions.
I visited Sequoia and Kings Canyon in the summer of 2019, where we saw General Sherman, went to Moro Rock, and did an underrated hike to Tokopah Falls.
I used Wikipedia for this information, as it gives it all on one page. Also say in your log if you have been to this park. If you have, please post pictures.
This cache was given away at GC8DRQG, FTF on Feb 29? YES!!! Come Tell Your Stories. The winner got at least a 7 day head start on the Pre-FTF. The final cache has 2 spots for FTFs, a Pre-FTF, and a Post-FTF.
Thanks CarlottaP for helping check the puzzles.
The final container is at: N 38° 00.ABC W 122° 08.DEF
A. The park is home to Mt. Whitney, the highest point in the lower 48 states at 1A505 feet
B. Tunnel Log is a fallen giant sequoia tree in Sequoia National Park. The tree, which measured 275 feet tall and 21 feet in diameter, fell across a park road in 19B7 due to natural causes. The following year, a crew cut an 8-foot tall, 17-foot wide tunnel through the trunk, making the road passable again
C. Moro Rock is a granite dome located in the center of the park, at the head of Moro Creek, between Giant Forest and Crescent Meadow. A X5Y-step stairway, built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps, is cut into and poured onto the rock, so that visitors can hike to the top. X+Y=C
D. Tokopah Falls is D,200 feet high, and is most impressive in early summer.
E. Crystal Cave was discovered on April 28, 19E8 by Alex Medley and Cassius Webster
F. Sequoia NP is the second oldest park in the US, established in 1F90 to protect the world’s largest tree, General Sherman the Giant Sequoia
Congrats to Shrektrician, kittyshrink, nozy nabor, Currymvp, Harmony Baby, Chef Scott & Fungjones, for the Pre-FTF
And Congrats to jeremiahsjohnson for the Post-FTF.
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