In Loving Memory of....

With some free time this past Saturday morning, minnie mouse and I went just north of Fulton, KY to complete a difficult multi called In Loving Memory of....  With the difficulty and chance of rain in the area, it would be the only find for us on that day.

Cache is back to some of the basics of land navigation, the cache owner is from a military background.  In Army land navigation, no one really goes at it alone, using a second person or more to pace the distance and help line up the azimuth.  With modern GPS, one person can do this alone.

First stages were most part straight forward with completion of math problems.  My smartphone has a good calculator and made easy work of the first stages.  Last stage was a bit of a challenge, I had to Google a "Smoot" and saw it is 5 feet and 7 inches.  I multiplied the inches of the amount of "smoots" and determined the total inches and then divided it by 12 to obtain the number of feet.  At the next to last location, I had to waypoint project, something I have not learned on my Garmin 62s, but I used the Sigh n' Go feature, to get very close to the degrees to at least get me in the ballpark.  We came up to two trees and each of us searched the trees and found the cache.  Being the number of smoots was 202 feet, I told minnie mouse that if we could not get the accurate bearing, we would go out 202 feet from the 3rd stage and make a circle searching obvious locations.  I also told her that if we had flopped at the first three stages, we would have circled the outskirts of the cemetery finding the hint for the final stage "Steele" and search from there.  Nevertheless, we did find the cache in the way the cache owner wanted.  It was a fun cache and hope to see more like it.  

Cache owner is new to the game and he will learn that the more difficult or more stages, the less number of people will come to find it.  I will admit that a cache like that, if not within 50 miles of home, or on a regularly travelled route, I tend to ignore.