The Beautiful Beech Multi-Cache
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Another short multi to commemorate another amazing tree here in Niagara. The coordinates will bring you to one of THE most historic spots in town. There is a concrete slab with a large plaque on one side and a smaller one on the other. It contains all the information required to get the final coordinates. Please use stealth and care when signing and rehiding the final. This can be a busy spot at times.
THE TREE
The Beech requires a thoroughly drained soil, and flourishes on high ground for this reason. It's foliage is what makes the copper beech so distinctive. The leaves are a rich purple to copper color, and the tree is often used as a shade tree, as it casts dense shade during the summer months. The copper beech tree has an attractive light gray bark that remains visually interesting even through the winter months. Its gray stems can be seen (often of great girth) throwing out their spreading roots from a distance away.
Over the years, beneath the Beech tree's shade wander those abusers of our young trees, who have been tempted by its smooth bark to make it the medium of perpetuating their love.
"Youthful lovers in my shade
Their vows of truth and rapture made,
And on my trunk's surviving frame
Carved many a long-forgotten name."
As the tree grows, the letters engraved upon it grow also.
The annual growth of bark strives to hide the wound of the knife, and ultimately the inscribed name will become buried in the heart of the old tree, to remain ages after that of the lover shall have ceased to beat.
THE PUZZLE
43 AB.CDE
79 FG.HIJ
AB = the number of letters in the colour of the BORDER of the small plaque.
CD = the last two digits in the year the tree was planted here.
E = the final digit in the year this battle occured. Times two.
FG = the first two digits of the anniversay that was commemorated by planting this tree.
H = the total number of digits on the small plaque.
IJ= the total number of letters on the small plaque. Plus ten.
Additional Hints
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