I have fancied putting togehter a geo art for a while now & being as the old series is a bit tired, had a chat with USAndy to do this re-run. This is a one of a series of 50 puzzle caches that will take you around the town of Thornbury. All puzzles are so easy to solve we have made the D rating a 1 on most, as the hides are easy to find as well.
All the caches are to do with the USA and will give you info on all the states.
To help you navigate the public footways around this area, the Explorer 167 map will be helpful.
The whole walk in one go will be no less than 12 miles, depending on other caches you can grab on the way round. There is a bonus cache as before.
Please see number 1 USA Mega series re-run #1; Alabama for car parking, if you need it.
ALASKA
- Origin of name: From the Aleut work Alyeska, meaning Great land
- Capital: Juneau
- Largest city: Anchorage
- Population: 735,132 (2013 est) Ranked 47th in the US
- Nicknames: Great land
- Highest point: Mount McKinley, 20,320 ft
- Admission to union: January 3rd 1959 (49th)
- State motto: North to the future
- State song: Alaska’s flag
- State tree: Sitka spruce
- State flower: Forget-me-not
- State bird: Willow Ptarmigan
- Area: 663,268 sq mi. Ranked 1st in the US
Did you know……..
1) The state of Rhode Island could fit into Alaska 425 times
2) In 1867 United States secretary of state William H. Seward offered Russia $7,200,000 or two cents per acre for Alaska.
3) Alaska accounts for 25% of the oil produced in the United States.
4) Alaska has been called America's Last Frontier.
5) 17 of the 20 highest peaks in the United States are located in Alaska.
To solve this one name the state Flower.
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
The Little Bridges series was started by Stanthews in 2009 to highlight small footbridges in remote parts of Wiltshire. Since then the series has been expanded by others all over the country and starting to spread fast. There is a stats listing, so you can see how many Little Bridges you have found, you can find it HERE . If you would like to add to the series, please contact Stan via the Little Bridges website with your caching name, name of your Little Bridge and the GC code and he will give you a number for your bridge. To qualify, the bridge must be a foot bridge too small for vehicles, please make sure your title exactly matches "Little Bridges # xxxx then the name" including spaces so it will get picked up and added to stats list.