|
GC5QEWF
BullittType: Mystery | Size: Regular 
| Difficulty: 
| Terrain:  By: 3 Williams Kidz @ | Hide Date: 04/05/2015 | Status: Available Country: United States | State: Colorado Coordinates: N38° 53.400 W104° 57.550 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0 
THE CACHE IS NOT AT THE ABOVE COORDINATES; SOLVE THE PUZZLE TO GET THE CACHE LOCATION. Bullitt is a 1968 American crime action police procedural film. It stars Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn and Jacqueline Bisset. Lalo Schifrin wrote the original jazz-inspired score, arranged for brass and percussion. Robert Duvall has a small part as a cab driver who provides information to McQueen. UPDATE 09 APRIL 2015: Based on feedback from computer savvy cachers ernie66 and SuperDolph (THANKS to both!), I have updated the puzzle. Reason was that the online puzzle solver that I was using apparently has an error in the algorithm. The much more commonly used online solvers that they were using showed the disparity. Puzzle has been updated. If you need help with the puzzle, feel free to email us, and we will offer hints and pointers. Good luck!  Released by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts on October 17, 1968, the film was a critical and box office smash, later winning the Academy Award for Best Film Editing (Frank P. Keller) and receiving a nomination for Best Sound. Steve McQueen plays San Francisco Police Lieutenant Frank Bullitt, personally selected by self-centered scumbag politician Walter Chalmers (Robert Vaughn) to protect a gangster-turned-informant who is going to testify in court two days later. When the informant is killed before testifying, Bullitt is determined to find the killers. The film easily stands on its own as a taut police drama, but Bullitt is most notable for its car chase scene through the streets of San Francisco, regarded as one of the most influential in movie history. In 2007, Bullitt was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". At the time of the film's release, the car chase scene generated a great amount of excitement. Leonard Maltin has called it a "now-classic car chase, one of the screen's all-time best." The editing of this scene likely won editor Frank P. Keller the Academy Award for Best Editing. The total time of the car chase scene is 10 minutes and 53 seconds. Two 1968 390 V8 Ford Mustang GT fastbacks (325 hp) with four-speed manual transmissions were used for the chase scene, both loaned by the Ford Motor Company to Warner Bros. as part of a promotional agreement. Ford also originally loaned two Galaxie sedans for the chase scenes, but the producers found the cars too heavy for the jumps over the hills of San Francisco. They were replaced with two 1968 375 hp 440 Magnum V8-powered Dodge Chargers. The engines in both Chargers were left largely unmodified, but the suspensions were mildly upgraded to cope with the demands of the stunt work. The director called for maximum speeds of about 75–80 miles per hour (121–129 km/h), but the cars (including the chase cars filming) at times reached speeds of over 110 miles per hour (180 km/h). Filming took three weeks. Because of multiple takes spliced into a single end product, heavy damage on the passenger side of Bullitt's car can be seen much earlier than the incident producing it and the Charger loses five wheel covers, with different ones missing in different shots. Shooting from multiple angles simultaneously and creating a montage from the footage to give the illusion of different streets also resulted in the speeding cars passing the same cars at several different times. At one point the Charger crashes into the camera and the damaged front fender is noticeable in later scenes. Local authorities did not allow the car chase to be filmed on the Golden Gate Bridge, but did permit it in Midtown locations including the Mission District, and on the outskirts of neighboring Brisbane. McQueen, an accomplished driver, drove in the close-up scenes, while stunt coordinator Carey Loftin, stuntman and motorcycle racer Bud Ekins, and McQueen's usual stunt driver Loren Janes drove for the high-speed part of the chase and other dangerous stunts. Ekins, who doubled for McQueen in the The Great Escape sequence where McQueen's character jumps over a barbed wire fence on a motorcycle, also lays one down in front of a skidding truck during the Bullitt chase. The black Dodge Charger was driven by veteran stunt driver Bill Hickman, who both played one of the hitmen and helped with the chase scene choreography. The other hitman was played by Paul Genge, who had ridden a Dodge off the road to his death in an episode of Perry Mason ("The Case of the Sausalito Sunrise") two years earlier. In a magazine article many years later, one of the drivers involved in the chase sequence remarked that the stock Dodge 440s were so much faster than the Mustang that the drivers had to keep backing off the accelerator to prevent the Dodge from easily pulling away from the Mustang. One of the two Mustangs was scrapped after filming because of damage and liability concerns, while the other was sold to an employee of Warner Brothers. The car changed hands several times, with McQueen at one point making an unsuccessful attempt to buy it in late 1977. The current state and location of the surviving Mustang is largely unknown, but it is rumored that the Mustang is kept in a barn somewhere in the Ohio River Valley by an unknown owner. Glenn -- father of the 3 Williams Kidz -- was born and raised in the San Francisco area, and is very familiar with many of the locations used for the infamous car chase, including the ending sequence which was filmed at Guadalupe Canyon Parkway, just a couple miles from his home up to age 18. Glenn actually drove up and down that very same Guadalupe Canyon Parkway while taking his driver's education courses before getting his drivers license! (not kidding) The cache is hidden somewhere along Ute Pass, which is similar to Guadalupe Canyon. To get the coordinates to the cache location, solve the following puzzle: PINMISKRKTREDKBVJCFIFPBYNDMMUOIGVEABVWGLKMVIGMAEPTQZFBBOCLURSH GLDGRQUMVWCTYWWHYGPRNNDWTLSJZJRBJSFOEVNBVSWUAXMSNRCAVGG WAIBECWKCLENIENRSIIMHFHMMESGIRPYSZTPTDWCSEXGIECEBUWKDPWKHYRPUPNQCPO If you solve the puzzle, the coordinates will be very obvious, so there is no need for a geochecker. CONGRATULATIONS to ernie66 for FTF !!! Additional Waypoints
Add cache to watch list Log your visit Picture Gallery
Puzzle -- Vigenere Container -- Highland Green ammo can (which is also a clue to the puzzle) If you get stuck -- email us for a pointer !
GC3G8HD Vengeance (9.42 kms NE) GC495KB Santa Fe Trail Geocache #29 (20.97 kms NE) GC495K6 Santa Fe Trail Geocache #28 (21.19 kms NE) GC5QV9M Northpark Picture Me This. (28.01 kms NE) GCJ3RZ Leyla's Red Rock Vista (45.57 kms SW) |
Driving Directions
6 Logs:
Why I was here: Due to a missed flight back in April, I had a voucher for a free roundtrip flight. This weekend, my wife was kind enough to watch the kids while I flew out to Denver from Michigan. As always, my plans were wildly ambitious, and I only found maybe a third of what I was hoping to find. But it's all good. Colorado has some great caches (and virtually no spiders, which was a pleasant surprise!). Thanks to all the COs for your time and effort!
|
6