GC3PPG3 Jaunting Jeremy Janizary Jumble
Type: Mystery | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: The Meandering Monkeys @ | Hide Date: 07/01/2012 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 32.230 W104° 50.870 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
                     

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Cache is NOT at the listed coordinates. To log this cache you must solve the PUZZLE.

The Jaunting Jeremy Janizary Jumble is a tribute to one of the main founders of geocaching. Thank you Jeremy for all the joie de vivre!!

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Bring your own pen. You do NOT need to access any private property at the final.
Please make sure container is closed securely and re-hidden as well or better than you found it.

JAUNTING JEREMY JANIZARY JUMBLE PUZZLE:

There are jillions of geocachers in the geo-jungle, but only the one true Jeremy will virtually lead you through the Jaunting Jeremy Janizary Jumble judiciously. By way of some intellectual judo and jousting, you will jovially journey through some geocaching history.
No JOY!! This JUNCTURE JUST JILTED you!!
You may need to jar and jog your memory. There may be some jests, but no jeers. There will definitely be some justified jukes, but this jumble will not be jejune!!

Geocachers navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find a geocache hidden at just that location. Usually, they jubilantly sign the log for micros through jumbos. Have you ever just wondered why geocaching is such a new sport?

The reason was Selective Availability. The US Government was intentional adding, time varying errors of up to 328 feet (100 meters) to the publicly available GPS navigation signals. Selective Availability errors were pseudorandom, generated by a cryptographic algorithm from a classified seed key available only to authorized users like the US military. Would you joyfully jump at the opportunity to look for a geocache with 328 feet accurancy? Of course not, so there was no such thing as geocaching!!

The year was 2000 and Bill Clinton was President. What month was Selective Availability turned off? Instantly, the civilian GPS accuracy improved from 328 feet (100 meters) to 66 feet (20 meters) or better. Around the country, geeks like us were joyfully using our GPS to mark waypoints for just about everything just because we could. Within 24 hours, Dave Ulmer placed the first geocache (at that time called a GPS Stash) and posted its coordinates online. Within three days, two people used their own GPS receivers to find the container and shared their experiences online. The jubilant birth of geocaching!!

Dave Ulmer at the Original Stash Tribute Plaque

We’re thinking of a historic cache between…wait no that’s a different game. Jeremy has a rare record of being the one and only finder of what particular geocache?

Who is this Jeremy anyway? Jeremy is a geocaching janiform. A what?!! Since you just had to ask, now you have to multiple his geocaching janiforms by two.

Wait, you were serious?! You don’t know who Jeremy is?! Jeremy was just the main founder of the geocaching.com website in, well, you’ll have to figure it out. Since you’re figuring things out anyway, divide when Jeremy founded geocaching.com by the total number of founders.

Is this jumble getting too long? Don’t worry, be jolly! If so, you can always try julienning it.

Now that we got that straightened out. Did you know Jeremy is just plain lingually talented? Do you have to be so cryptic? Why, yes we do this a jumble ya know.

In August 2001, Jeremy encountered a jumbo vortex where several of the first travel bugs emerged. Well that’s his story (other than the jumbo part) and he’s sticking to it. How many of the travel bugs that emerged from the vortex actually have traveled for mileage?

As this really has been quite jumbled so far, we should just jog our memories a bit with a review. The first geocache ever was placed on what day in May 2000? Can you see how the junction of all these items brought about geocaching as we know it today?

Now, for the juicy information we know you all really, really want to know. Just how many inches tall is Jeremy anyway? Are you sure he’s not 5 inches shorter without his boots?

Turn on the jukebox while you journal or jot down your answers. You’ll be done with the Jaunting Jeremy Janizary Jumble in a jiffy so you can jump up and jet out on your cache junket for a joyride in your jalopy or jeep.

Don’t jeopardize your smiley and jactancy. Please see if your answers jive on geochecker.com. Trust its juise.

Additional Waypoints

08/14/2018 By herndonrd
Out caching with FeartheFish and driving his butt all around the place like usual. Stopped to get this one which he had found and, after needing to TAF, made the find. TFTC!

04/28/2017 By fearthefish
Sometimes who you know is far more valuable than what you know. That was the case here, as I have stared at this puzzle numerous times and have come away with nothing more than a headache each time. So when PayMeCache told me that he solved it and if I wanted to join him, I could not say Yes fast enough.

When we arrived, the weather had turned ugly. We fought on and kept looking. I stepped on a thorn twig that went through the sole of my shoe. We fought on and kept looking. We slipped and slid all over the place. We fought on and kept looking. We couldn't find it. We fought on and called a friend for help.

Armed with a hint, we fought on and found the cache. Once again I proved my worth because I remembered my pen, a skill that PayMeCache has yet to master. We did our happy dance inside our cars because it was too cold otherwise. Thanks for the fun hide.

04/28/2017 By PayMeCache
fearthefish asked if I wanted to find some caches today, however my neighbor cut open his foot this morning after I had gotten home from an errand. I had to miss out on the caching activities today and take my neighbor to the hospital. After getting other work errands done and before heading to an appointment I had a short time to join for one cache. I had solved this puzzle previously so I asked if fearthefish wanted to help in finding the cache. By the time we had reached ground zero snow was flying in sideways in small 'hail-like' balls. It made the descent a little slippery as we carefully checked all around ground zero for the cache. After a small hint from a friend I was able to locate the cache but I didn't have a pen. Thankfully fearthefish was there for the rescue and provided the needing pluma to scribble our handles on the log. We carefully put the cache back in its Heidi (w)hole and carefully crawled back to the car to prevent slipping and hurting ourselves.

Found Jaunting Jeremy Janizary Jumble on April 28, 2017 using Cachly for iOS.

Thank you, MeanderingMonkeys for placing a fun cache for all of us to enjoy. I look forward to finding more of your caches.

04/12/2017 By benj59
I've looked at this puzzle off and on over the years and couldn't crack the code. A few months ago I got a helping hand from a previous finder. Today I was in the area for an event and thankfully it was nice and early. The muggle traffic was light and I was able to get close parking. The cache was a bit easier to find than I would've expected and I was thankful for that! All is good here.

Thanks for the hide MeanderingMonkeys!

Find #1211

Found with Cachly app for iOS

01/20/2017 By Back Country Horsemen
Wow, this (along with several others in Parker) blue question mark has been staring me in the face for 4+ years. After learning some more about solving puzzles I decided to delve into this caching history puzzle regarding Jeremy (I do have one of his TBs that he gave me while visiting for the mega at the Wildlife Experience several years ago).
After lots of research I was able to find most of the answers, but there was a couple that I couldn't figure out so it was time to MAF who passed on some info that was passed on to him otherwise I would have never been able to solve it. From there the find was relatively easy.