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7 1/2 million years of Deep Thought Mystery Cache

Hidden : 5/25/2020
Difficulty:
5 out of 5
Terrain:
4 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Welcome to State Game Lands 91

This is a hunting area so always keep you and your pets safe by donning some ORANGE clothing.


This was hidden on May 25th. Better known to HHGTTG fans as Towel Day.

Towel Day

Celebrated annually on May 25th, Towel’s Day is a fun holiday that was started by the fans of Douglas Adams who wanted to give him a fitting tribute. It is during this day that his fans will openly carry towels around with them. That’s because in the Douglas Adams book – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – towels are described as one of the most massively useful things that an interstellar hitchhiker can have with them.

 

History of Towel Day

Douglas Noel Adams was born on March 11th, 1952 in Cambridge, England. In 1978, at the age of 26, he wrote a comedy broadcast that would appear on BBC Radio and was known as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It would go on to become so successful that it would spawn books, stage shows, television shows, computer games and even a movie.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a story that follows the adventures of Arthur Dent, the last surviving man from Earth after a Vogon constructor fleet demolished the planet to make room for a hyperspace bypass. Fortunately, Arthur Dent was rescued from Earth by a human-looking alien writer named Ford Prefect who writes the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and helped Dent escape the destruction by hitching a ride on a passing spacecraft. After his rescue, Arthur Dent then explores the galaxy with Prefect and heads on a myriad of adventures.

In the book within the book – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – the importance of a towel to interstellar travelers is revealed. To paraphrase the book, a towel can be used to keep yourself warm on the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; it can be soaked in water and used as a weapon in hand-to-hand combat, you can wrap it around your head to ward off noxious fumes; you can wave it as a distress signal during a time of emergency; you can lie on it on the marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V and you can, of course, dry yourself off with it.

Unfortunately, Douglas Noel Adams died of a heart attack on May 11th, 2001. Three days later, a user named “Clyde” on an open-source forum suggested that Towel Day be established as a tribute to Douglas Adams. It proposed that two weeks after his death (May 25th, 2001) Towel Day should be celebrated.

Towel Day Customs & Celebrations

People who want to celebrate this day can do so in a number of different ways. They can take a picture of themselves with a towel and post it to social media using the hashtag #towelday. They can reread the books, or if they haven’t read them, start reading them. People can also listen to the original radio show, throw an H2G2 themed party or head over to a local Towel Day Event


The cache is not at the hidden coordinates. To find the coordinates, just solve the following puzzle. Parking coords will be revealed to you upon getting a green light on the checker.

2Dc.44aQ8UcCW

4BP.53IR9310E4


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