It's time for the San
Diego area geocachers to bust out the slide rules,
calculators, a text book or two and your geocaching skills.
Barring that, you can regress back to some (easy?) 9th grade
math. It's geometry time for the geocacher! From the
information and the coordinates provided below, you will have
to determine the actual location of the
cache.
In a triangle, the three altitudes of the triangle
intersect at a point called the orthocenter. The
orthocenter for the triangle with vertices A,B,and C in the image
below is the red point labeled O.
I have placed the geocache at the orthocenter of the triangle
defined by the three coordinates below:
- N 32° 49.002' W 117° 18.601'
- N 32° 51.762' W 117° 05.828'
- N 32° 40.987' W 117° 10.772'
Please note that the coordinates provided at the top of the page
are not the location of the cache. The cache container is a glass
jar covered in duct tape, and well hidden. There is little ground
cover at the final location, so you'll have to look close to the
ground to find it. Please be discreet when replacing the cache.
Onlookers may wonder what you are doing. Enjoy!
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