GC36J8C MIB: Tri-Lakes Division
Type: Mystery | Size: Regular | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Tom.dog @ | Hide Date: 10/24/2011 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 04.025 W104° 50.498 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
             

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Greetings Agent [insert geo-initials here], and welcome to the Tri-Lakes division of the MIB, or Men In Black. We are in need of your assistance. The once quiet and peaceful Tri-Lakes community is now being threatened by a Cachatronian, who we believe landed his ship in the area recently. He has obviously taken notice of the immense amount of caches in this area and will do anything to destroy them, as is the Cachatronian’s purpose. You will need to locate his ship control box and shut down his computer systems. Without these he can no longer log onto geocaching.com and find the whereabouts of our fine geocaches to destroy.


To begin this quest with which you have been burdened with, you will need to locate the Microtian, much like a martian but far smaller. He is our mission briefer. Our alien cryptology expert, codename “Symbol” will give you coded directions to the Microtian, which can be found at the bottom of this page in digital photo format. The Microtian will then give you your supplies list which should come in handy when confronted with hostile extraterrestrials along the way.

Once you have your supplies visit Area P347, a secret location where the MIB-TLD stored all information for the final coordinates of puzzle and multi caches in this area. The Cachatronian gained the knowledge of where this confidential site was and obtained the final coordinates for many puzzles and multis, destroying the building afterwards. There is a slight chance that he left directions back to his ship there, as he is quite the lazy and careless alien when it comes to directions and codes.

With any directions that you may find at Area P347 try to find his ship. It is most likely well camouflaged to keep the common muggle from seeing it, though it should resemble something of an upright rocket. Located near the ship you can find the control box. Tap into the system using you geo-code name and access the computer systems. Shut this down. The Cachatronian will not be able to do any more damage and hopefully flee to space on the next outgoing interstellar transport ship.

Go quickly, the fate of the Tri-Lakes caching world is now in your hands!

-Agent T.D, Department Head of the MIB-TLD

UPDATE 1-28-12: VERY IMPORTANT!!! - The Cachatronian employees have come in and switched materials around that you will need to get to Area P347. Once you visit stage 1, disregard all information except for the supplies listed. If you contact me with the supplies listed in their exact order I will exchange the valuable coordinate location of Area P347.

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A Note on the Cache: All stages have fairly good parking near them. Please replace all stages as found and make sure all lids are put on correctly and tightly. No difficult terrain should be encountered so don't do anything crazy. Have fun!

Update 1/15/12: Due to Groundspeak making the puzzle image unreadable, it has been posted into a note below.

Update 1/28/12: Images are readable again.

Additional Waypoints

09/21/2017 By ColoradoSmith
No luck at 1st wp
May be missing

05/22/2017 By brennan7
Wow. I can't believe I actually finished this cache! I was with you, Tom.Dog, right after you hid it all and you gave me some insight to complete the first two stages. Then, the coords were stashed and I never made the trek out to finish it. I saw it on my solved list recently and vowed to complete it at my next opportunity. So today, to wrap up a 7-hour day completing caches that I had solved a long time ago, I made it to the final here. What a neat place. Thanks for all the work that went into this cache! I can't vouch for the earlier stages since I found them so long ago, but the final is in great shape. Definitely a favorite from me! Thanks Nate!

10/17/2015 By hollyesposito
Searched all over and didn't find:(

10/06/2015 By sleuthers
It took a few trips down to the Springs to work our way through this puzzle and a couple of years before actually being conveniently in the area to make the find. As animjason said we didn't start at the best location to get to the cache. Still we made it there. Cache is in good shape. More puzzles please! Cheers.

10/06/2015 By animjason
As usual, found the difficult way to the cache and the nice and gentle way back. I wouldn't have it any other way! Found with sleuthers to pick up some hikes and puzzles. Thanks!
Found using the fifth galaxy!