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Art of Communication: Redwood Multi-Cache

Hidden : 9/4/2022
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


This cache is part of a series of caches that get you to visit and see the community artwork that has been applied to some roadside network infrastructure cabinets.

Note that no physical caches are placed on or near the cabinets - you only need to look at them to gather the information you need.

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Redwood

So Redwood is one of  those "odd" places that is difficult to tell if it's an official suburb or an unofficial description for the southern part of Tawa. The latter seems to be the case with Tawa's official boundaries including the area known as "Redwood" but at least one dubious source lists it as a suburb in its own right. But for the purposes of this cache, it's helpful that the 3 waypoints are in the southern part of Tawa and "Redwood" sounds better than "Southern Tawa" in case cabinets up Linden way (another similarly named region within the boundaries of Tawa) get their own AoC cache one day.

Layout of the multi-cache

Like other multi-caches in this series the virtual waypoints are the locations of communication cabinets with community artwork on them. The final cache is not too far away from WP3.

The virtual way points

The waypoints can be visited in any order but the listed order is recommended to put you closest to the cache at the end of the virtual waypoints. Typically with the AoC series there are things to count on the artworks themselves but that was made difficult by the nature of the art in this group so you may find yourself looking for random things close by instead. More careful reading is required than usual for this series. The paragraph preceding each waypoint descibes how to locate the information.

WP1 WP1 Countable things are hard to come by here so you will need to locate the grey telecoms pipe a few metres to the right of the cabinet (the one that says "Buried Telephone Cables". On it is a group of 9 black squares (3 rows of 3) with white symbols. Use this to determine B and D.
  C The second letter on the first row (e.g. A=1, B=2, etc)
  D The first digit on the bottom row.

 

WP2 WP2 Countable things are hard to come by here too. However on the fence behind the cabinet are some coloured "pictures" that face into the kindergarden but are visible in mirror form from the footpath. One is about a metre away (to the right) behind the tree and the other is perhaps 5 metres away in the same direction also behind a tree!
  B Number of elements in the graphic that is 5m away PLUS ONE.
  F How many colours are used in the graphic closest to the cabinet.

 

WP3 WP3 At least for this waypoint the digits can be determined by what IS on the cabinet.
  A Count all of the Tawa fruit (the purple things) on the left door. Use the second digit of this.
  E Number of letters in the last word of the artist's name.

 

The checksum for A+B+C+D+E+F=22

The final location

S41 11.ABC E174 49.DEF

If you want to verify your final coords: Check your solution

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Yhexvat va n pnir ng gur onfr bs n gerr.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)