Joe's Truck Stop Multi-Cache
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Joe's Truck Stop
When you read the title of this cache, you probably envisioned an Interstate exit, a tall sign with the current price of diesel fuel in big red letters, 40 acres of concrete, a restaurant complete with showers and a CB shop, and 18-wheelers lined up like rows of corn.
Not here. Here you will find a big play on words. Here, at the base of Lookout Mountain on Alabama Highway 35 South, you will find a sharp, 90 degree turn to the right. Since there are no runaway truck ramps on this road down Lookout Mountain, occasionally a loaded rig would fail to negotiate this sharp curve and end up on Joe's property, usually with cargo strewn all over.
Finally, Joe built a thick rock wall separating his property from the highway. After that, trucks stopped crashing into Joe's yard. Trucks stopped at the rock wall.
Recently, after a particularly bad accident involving liquid tar and damage to his residence, Joe upgraded the wall. At the listed coordinates, you will find a concrete wall about waist high, and about 4 feet thick with steel I-beams reaching skyward from the barrier. So far, nothing has hit this new wall, but it is just a matter of time. Occasionally, there is talk of re-routing the highway, but that has not happened and probably won't ever.
Since this is very private property, the cache is not hidden here, but rather in an obscure, meaningless location nearby. Count the number of vertical steel I-beams. Use this number in the following calculations, where the number equals K. Two digit results should use the least significant digit for the answer. All negative results should use absolute values for the answer.
K-9=A
K-7=B
K-5=C
K-3=D
N 34° 28.AD6
W 085° 42.0CB
This is a micro cache which contains only a logbook. You must bring your own writing instrument, and please take care to replace the cache exactly as you found it. Email me with any problems. Good Luck!
If you need to check your final coordinates, click this link at geochecker.com.
Why did I place this cache here? I wanted to draw attention to this locally well-known "landmark".
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