GC4E4W9 Applesauce Hard 1
Type: Mystery | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: THeSKuLL @ | Hide Date: 06/12/2013 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 55.993 W104° 49.365 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
       

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Another in a series of different kinds of Criss Cross puzzles. Different levels of difficulty, as well.

In this Hard one, you have to fill in the names of the cachers from the list.
(punctuation & special characters have been removed.)
Then you will need to convert the necessary characters to numbers to find the coordinates.

If you don’t want your name in this puzzle, let me know and I’ll replace it.

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Sorry to anyone not on the list...
For the most part the selection process went like so:
  1. Family/Friends.
  2. Folks that I've actually met.
  3. Multiple hits and/or solves on my caches.
  4. Random selection of those that would enhance the puzzle.
... not necessarily in that order.

The puzzle:

Solve, then use the letters to fill in the following:
N AB.CDEFGH W -IJK.LMNOPQ
Watch those numbers after the decimals.
If you have more digits, try rounding to the nearest 1,000,000th place (0.xxxxxx) for the conversion to the GeoChecker format.

The list:

4 Characters		5 Characters		6 Characters		7 Characters
HZOI		GOMRT		B4TEAM		BLUELEW
TANZ		M4FUN		J1SRUS		CLAUDEY
		OHAIL		OFERAD		CONDOR1
		POHKA		RKSTER		ERNIE66
		XPTWO		TOMDOG		ESTES01
						GDSDIZZ
						JESS001
						MTNGOAT
						NGRRFAN
						RSFIXIT
						ZULU113
8 Characters		9 Characters		10 Characters		11 Characters
23MARINE		ANIMJASON		BOLLWEEVIL		SEEKDACACHE
BABOON44		AVGIRLS33		HARPSTER68		SILVERSCOUT
BRENNAN7		CACHERDAN		HIKINGFOOL
DUSTYKAT		K9JAYHAWK		JAZZMANCOS
HIKYMUCE		KTRACKERS		SPORTSLANE
SASSYDIL		LESSLOST2		THECAMPERS
THESKULL		SCOUTDOG3		WOLFPACK01
		SLEUTHERS
		SNAILMAN1
		TITOCACHE
		VORTICITY
		WITZABOUT
12 Characters		13 Characters		14 Characters
APPLEIPHONE6		CHIHUAHUAJILL		COLORADOARTIST
KENYANSHERPA		MANITOUCACHER		COLORADOCACHER
		STRUMMINALONG		CRUMBCRUNCHERS
		WINGSANDTALES

You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.

Congratulations to hiking_fool for the FTF!
Whew! I'm glad he was on the list!

Additional Waypoints

04/14/2019 By chsmathwisch
Visiting from Philadelphia. Love these puzzles. Stopped on the way back to the hotel. Thanks!

12/24/2018 By Trea
Well, this makes a nice Christmas present. Parked nearby, jumped out of the car, signed the log and went on my merry way.

11/07/2018 By Back Country Horsemen
Solved this last winter on a puzzle solving frenzy but I'm not a parking lot type of cacher so I put it off. It's too nasty to be out hiking today so I'm catching up in places like this. Actually this was much better than a light skirt & it is all about the puzzle anyway.

05/28/2018 By fizzymagic
I solved the crossword but then had trouble with the dismount to coordinates. Finally a friend pointed out the meaning of the hint and there you go! So I made a point to come by and grab this one during my brief stay here in CO Springs.

07/25/2017 By TexDoc56
I headed to the woodmen area to grab a few.
It was warm but comfortable.

I solved this one some time ago and was in the vicinity for the grab.
The log is damp and full but I was able to find a blank spot to stamp.

Thanks for the cache, THeSKuLL

07/05/2017 By jasperdakota
Thanks for the fun puzzle cache! The log is getting pretty full. SL.

05/21/2017 By TheDisneyBugs
Met with some fellow cachers celebrating a 1,000 find victory and this cache came up in conversation so we all went after it together. Mr. Bug had solved this one previously and forgot to tell the Mrs. or she wasn't listening as usual... so when she pulled it up was she surprised to have the coords ready to go. It was a quick trip to ground zero and the cache was in hand and log passed for all to sign. Thanks for having some brain scratching puzzles around that really add to the game!

05/21/2017 By RPieperCO
Thanks for the puzzle. I've been staring at this one for years. "Solved" it dozens of times. Never did unlock the secrets but I have a million notes and possibilities. Fortunately, others took pity on me and let me join them for a quick cache and dash while in the area. Thanks for the challenge!