Current at 11/6/2011 (Online waypoint URL) You have already found this cache! Master Index    Nearest Caches Nights of Pythagoras -or- Death by Triangulation by milesmac (2/1.5) N49° 57.561  W97° 15.283 (WGS84) UTM  14U   E 625181  N 5535571 Use waypoint: GC11R0C Size: Regular    Hidden on 3/28/2007 In Manitoba, Canada Difficulty:     Terrain:                   *** Cache is not at the posted coordinates *** Are you smarter than a grade 8 student? Drag out that old geometry textbook and your knowledge of coordinate systems to locate this puzzle cache! A straight line from the posted coordinates to 49°57'22.06"N 97°15'33.73"W forms the hypotenuse of a triangle whose right angle points south east. Complete the triangle and reflect it along its North-South axis. The Easternmost vertex of the reflected triangle is where you will find the cache. Cache is a cammo taped medium sized Lock-and-Lock container. It contains an attractive and stylish FTF certificate, a hand-crafted logbook with a vintage Pokemon pencil, and some trading items, including: Deck of cards Emergency blanket Compass carbineer CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival Button Red Christmas Ornament 5 in 1 Survival Tool

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4/4/2007 by Kabuthunk
Calculatzored! Yeah... a cache that the name "Death by Triangulation" was just WAY too cool a name to pass up for any length of time. Hence... I calc'd.

Well... going by a rather light definition of calculation. Don't know why Ertyu needed to resort to SOH CAH TOA, unless he just said that because it sounds cool... or if it would have made it easier... then I likely did it the hard way. But... all I used was subtraction. And MSPaint. And some knowledge of geometry.

Ahahaha! That grade 8 student mentioned in the description got PWNED! That's right nonexistant 8th grader, I kicked the CRAP outta you!

...But anyway... yes. Parked the car and headed over. Actually walked most-way directly to the cache, but then thought I was going the wrong way, doubled back, took another route, and ended up having to resort to bushwhacking a direct line to the cache. My method of 'duck under all the branches' only works so well, especially when the ground is snowy/slushy, and I'm trying to keep my pants dry . Anyhoo... found the cache at the coordinates I calculated out to.

Although, mental note. This weekend, I've REALLY got to pick up some swag to trade with. I wouldn't have minded some of the stuff in this cache .

Anyhoo... thanks for the awesome puzzle (ehehehe... geometry... one of the maths I was actually good at), and an awesome forest-cache . Gotta love forest caches.

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball

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The hypotenuse runs exactly SW to NE, therefore the other two sides run exactly N/S and E/W. This makes it easy to solve purely mathematically. Well... reasonably easy!