(2 part cache)
Lat: 42° 21.509 N / Long: 71° 28.310 W
(Also, you must see Greg and Dave?s Web page for additional
information that does not fit on this page!!click
here)
Sound like something you?ve heard of before? Well, this geocache
will require you to emulate Indiana Jones in his quest for the Arc
of The Covenant in ?Raiders of the Lost Arc?. No, you won?t need a
whip and there won?t be any snakes. All you need is sunlight at
precisely the appointed time of day and a staff cut to the precise
height for that day. Remember in ?Raiders?, Indy used a ruby topped
staff to shine sunlight onto a model of the city to determine where
the Arc was located?? Well, that?s what you?ve got to do in this
geocache, but with a few changes. Instead of a model of the city we
have selected a location (the coordinates given for this cache)
that contains what amounts to an X-Y coordinate system. (It is
actually a brick entrance way to the Martha Mary Chapel). You will
place your staff at a particular point on the brick floor and
locate where the end of the shadow falls. Each brick has been
assigned a number by us. The brick number can be determined from
two pictures (that we provide on our web site) that contain brick
numbers overlaid on them. The latitude and longitude of the Raiders
of the Lost Geocache is then obtained from a table of
latitude/longitude pairs vs. the brick numbers. It?s really easy!
The detailed instructions are only available on our web site due to
the limitation on the number of words allowed on this web
site!.
The cache is located near a registered National Landmark, the
Wayside Inn, located on the Boston Post Road in Sudbury. The
Wayside Inn is a great place to eat (or drink) and dates back to
the 1700?s. Even if you don?t stop to eat or drink, you should stop
in and see the inside and visit the gift shop. The Wayside Inn
grounds are quite large and contain a working Grist Mill where the
Wayside Inn still makes its own flour. The Martha Mary Chapel, and
the Little Red School House, from the poem ?Mary Had a Little
Lamb?, are also within only a few hundred yards. Every September,
the Wayside Inn hosts a Colonial Muster where fife and drum corps
from all over the east coast come to play. Also nearby, but down
the road a half mile, is the Wayside Country Store where you can
get all kinds of gifts.
There are lots of places to park: At the grist mill is the first
choice in order to see all the sights (42° 21.462 N, 71° 28.472 W).
Also at the Wayside Inn and at the Martha Mary Chapel.
For other essential information necessary to find the cache,
visit our web page now!!!: click
here now!
Then click on the ?Raiders of the Lost Geocache? link.
Good Luck,
Greg and Dave