GC56B2K Unknown Cache Second to None
Type: Mystery | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 3.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: Tom.dog @ | Hide Date: 06/04/2014 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 10.992 W104° 47.846 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Takes less than an hour  Available during winter  Stealth required  Park and Grab 

Puzzle cache - there is nothing at the listed coordinates.


To find the cache, solve the puzzle below:

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Upon noticing a new puzzle cache in the Douglas County area, you prepare to run out and make a quick find of it. Before you leave home, you find that at this particular time on this day the speed of sound is 333.4918204 m/s. In order to decide if you're going to need a jacket, you take out a piece of paper and a calculator to figure out the outdoor temperature (using an even 331m/s as the value for the speed of sound at 0 degrees Celsius).

With the temperature in degrees Celsius discovered, you grab your jacket and head out to the car. On your way to the cache, you take the temperature value that you found and add the prefix "DC GIS" to it. Maybe you just like adding cool letters before numbers, or maybe you should whip out your smart phone and google that while in the Starbucks drive-thru.

From what your research says, somebody has put down a nice set of coordinates for an object corresponding with that set of letters and numbers. Hmm... that spot just doesn't look correct. It would make a lot more sense if a cache was placed 177.457 feet away, in the general direction of 99.848 degrees. With that, you can take a long, satisfying swig of your super mocha cappuccino latte supreme while heading off to sign the log.

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NOTICE: For the accurate answers necessary to derive the correct coordinates of the cache, DO NOT round off ANY number values in your calculations.

Good luck!

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5 Logs: Found it 5  

Found it 08/23/2018 By RPieperCO
Thanks for the puzzle! Wow... I never got the exact coords, guessing my rounding or math might have been off a bit. I had to reach out to a previous finder to verify if I was close or not. I was far enough off I would have wrecked the checker trying to get there. Ha ha ha! With that said. Well done puzzle! At lunch I drove up here to make the quick find. Stamped the log and replaced everything as found. All is well here! Thanks again!

Found it 04/14/2018 By Berb57
Found with Thierry B on a blistery but sunny day. I haven't solved it yet but I will. Since he had solved it and we were nearby, we got it. Thanks.

Found it 04/14/2018 By Thierry B
The biggest problem was what kind of precision we needed for the formula--there are different values you can find on the net.
Once the checker gave the green light and I had to go on site, the find was easy.
TFTC.

Found it 04/04/2017 By kkcjrlma
Roads cleaned up enough for me to get a couple puzzle caches I'd solved earlier. Good thing I had on boots though! Tftc

Found it 01/30/2016 By mondou2
Out caching with Vivi. Enjoyed the hunt. SL. Thanks for the fun!

Find # 114857.

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