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2011-03-18 3:11 PM
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Subject: RE: Help! How to find 42N 135W on a map?
ooooh! can we play charades to guess what you're looking for????


2011-03-18 10:19 PM
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2011-03-18 10:35 PM
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This guy is a great writer and marketer. How many new copies were bought due to this? I'm guessing more than I care to know. Good luck and I am totally a believer if you find the loot and care to share.
2011-03-22 10:04 AM
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Subject: RE: Help! How to find 42N 135W on a map?
Have you been looking for the last two years???  This thread started in 2009 
2011-03-22 10:20 AM
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Subject: RE: Help! How to find 42N 135W on a map?
TriAya - 2009-03-23 12:56 AM

Lots and lots of excellent ideas. I keep thinking! ANY HELP IS APPRECIATED!!!

Here's the deal, and I'm totally giving my game away, but whatever ... YOU drive/hike there and start digging if you want.

A famous author in his new book gives 8 clues in 8 illustrations leading to a buried cache. He even posts a photo of it. So far no one has located it yet, despite his millions of readers.

I don't know if the clues are in order, but I know they are correct. (For example, in one illustration, there is Morse code on a tiny piece of paper, which spells out BASIN).

The clues, in the order in which they appear, and in brackets my best guess at meaning are:

1. California VESA 99-S [If you take the 99-S from the Oregon border, you will hit Vesa Creek Trail]

2. DFG [Department of Fish and Game--have searched fruitlessly for a station around there. Maybe there is a map or pamphlet or license I need to obtain from the DFG?]

3. 8-5 [I have no idea. DFG is open from 8-5? Interstate 5? 8 miles down from I-5 (which is also 99-S) is where you'd go to get to Vesa Creek Trail].

4. 45 POLICE [.45 police revolver? What would I need that for? To blow the cache case open? There's no exit #45 anywhere near there, and the nearest police station is in Yreka, but I can't figure out what 45 has to do with POLICE.]

5. 42nd St., Locker #135. [Vesa Creek Trail is at 42N longitude. Still trying to figure 135 out.]

6. 25 PACES EAST

7. BIG

8. BASIN [If the clues are in order and I've gotten this far, then the cache is 25 paces east of the big basin. And there is one around Vesa Creek Trail.]

Any takers? I am totally obsessed with this

I don't know if this helps but there is a fruit inspection station on I5 about 8mi S. of the Oregon border.

2011-03-22 11:43 AM
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Subject: RE: Help! How to find 42N 135W on a map?
I've been looking at this for about 10 minutes and I my only guess is to look at plot number 135 at the East Lawn Memorial Cemetery in Sacramento, head 25 paces east and you should see a large basin possible a bird bath or something (Basin: a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids)


2011-03-23 4:59 PM
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Subject: RE: Help! How to find 42N 135W on a map?

135 West 42nd Street, NY, NY.  Aureole.    Just down the street for Pop-Tarts World.

 

Geezzz



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2011-03-23 5:05 PM
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Subject: RE: Help! How to find 42N 135W on a map?
45 Police

How about a 45 (record) from The Police
2011-03-24 8:21 AM
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Subject: RE: Help! How to find 42N 135W on a map?

Oh. Mah. Lands.

I saw this thread resurface a couple days ago and I was seriously thinking, WHAT KIND OF AN IDIOT CAN'T FIND 42N 135W on a map? Stupid CoJers who want to know how to boldface text, what the Excel shortcut is, any number of instantly Googlable questions ...

uh ...

Whoops.

I hope jhartman isn't my ex-boyfriend ... but thanks for the confirmation and additional clues!

I need to check on Strauss's website to see if anyone's found anything.

Also, his book Emergency is actually a very, very good read in light of recent threads about disaster preparedness.

2017-04-06 10:15 AM
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I see the thread seems to be dead. Willing to help. I have a few ideas
2017-04-07 4:29 PM
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Subject: RE: Help! How to find 42N 135W on a map?
Hopefully your ideas include plans for a time machine.


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So what happened? Anyone find the solution?
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