Same rules as contests #1-#7….photos required of all clue positions and posted on vigps.com You and any operatives are responsible for your own safety and well being.WHERE WILL YOU BE? CONTEST #8

1(a) Determine the UTM of the war memorial on the top of Mount Prevost on Vancouver Island. ______

1(b) Next, go to Austin R. Ordano’s grave at St. Peters church in Duncan, B.C. What is the UTM? ______

From 1a, proceed on a round world compass bearing of 145deg. 30min. 51.6787sec. True. From 1b, proceed on a round world compass bearing of 145deg. 50min. 05.8944sec. True. Where these two lines meet, you’ll find a GPS tag glued to rock. What is the tag #? ______

2. You now have a tag number, and have determined a position where the tag is in Ques. #1.

2(a) What is the UTM? ______ Now go to Fields, Oregon (you can overnight here, and have a meal). Determine the UTM of the 2 gas pumps here (they’re within a few feet of each other).

2(b) What is the UTM? ______ You now have 2 positions a) and b) for question #2.

From 2(a), follow a round world course of 328deg. 56min. 15.6969sec.

From 2(b) follow a round world course of 333deg. 31min. 39.1074sec. Where these two courses join, you’ll be at a grave. The deceased was born in 1880. What is the deceased’s name? ______ What is the UTM of the grave? ______

3. You now have the UTM of the grave in #2 above. Now go to 12S 531231 East and 4211113 North. Here you will find a large abandoned machine. Go inside the machine. Look for a serial number on it that ends with a ‘3’. What is the serial number? ______

Now you have 2 UTM’s (the UTM of the grave in #2, and the ‘machine’ as stated above). Follow a True compass bearing from the grave in ‘2’ above of 133deg. 41min. 31.6388sec., and follow a compass bearing of 327deg. 59min. 13.2633sec. from the ‘machine’. You should now be in a rather remote area. Look for a GPS tag glued to rock. What is the tag #? ______

Same rules as contests #1-#8; $500.00 Cdn. prize money to the first winner, be it individual or team. Photos to be posted on vigps of all positions…

WHERE WILL YOU BE? CONTEST #9

Start at the Buckhorn Cabin, at approximately 11S 443442 East and 4032235 North in the California Desert. (All WGS 84, and all 19deg. E declination). Photos are required on vigps for all positions in this contest.

From the UTM given, go 312.452554 miles at 358deg. 54min. 49.6871sec. You should be standing by a large cross. In this general area, look for the name “Clinton John Valentine”. When did Clinton die? _______. From the UTM you determined to get you to the approximate area of the large cross, proceed (with dignity, of course!) 940.909587 kilometers at 338deg. 15min. 36.4007sec. This will put you at a structure. Look under the bathroom sink. There you will find a GPS tag. What is the tag #? ______(we’ll give you a clue here – “check out 320”).

From the UTM you determined for this structure, proceed 73.854558 nautical miles at 297deg. 18min. 21.8437sec. This will place you in an area where you must locate a buried moonbomb. What are the tag #’s attached to this moonbomb? ______/_____

From here, what is the UTM of the top of a flagpole that is close to the above position? What is the UTM of the flagpole? _____/_____

Now, we’ve made this more difficult than you think, as we’ve run a slope distance to the top of the pole, so the UTM will not be the same as if the top of the pole was at the elevation of the starting point, which, by the way, was 1 meter above ground level. So you’ll actually have a false UTM for the top of the pole…that’s the UTM to go with.

From the top of the flagpole and the false UTM, look in the distance and find a white sign on a white/orange pole with a concrete base.

How many meters higher is the flagpole when compared to the white sign? ______

From the top of the flagpole to the top of the white sign is what distance? _______

You will get a slightly skewed reading here as we ran a slope for the actual distance between flagpole and sign. What is the UTM of the sign? _____/_____

Presuming your numbers are close, now follow a compass course of 323deg. 18min. True. Look for the highest point of two very small islands. They’re only a few meters across, and would barely be visible at high tide.

How far is it from the sign to the highest point on the small islands, in meters? _______

What is the UTM of the highest point of the small islands? ______/______

From the highest point on the small islands, where you determined the UTM, proceed 7615 meters at 275deg. 00min. 01.9253sec. There you’ll find a buried moonbomb.

What are the two GPS tag #’s on the steel bar attached to the moonbomb? ______/______

From this buried moonbomb, proceed 969.0032 meters at 298deg. 41min. 26.037sec. There you will find the WORLD’S FIRST “MINI MOONBOMB STAKE“!!

What are the two tag #’s on this stake? ____/____ Make sure to bring a hammer to drive this stake back into the ground, so the top of it is four inches below grade.

You and any operatives are responsible for your own safety and well being.

Good Luck from The Team!

The Team continues this series….same rules apply as in previous #1-#6 contests, i.e. photos required of all clue positions, and to be posted on vigps.com You are responsible for your own safety and well being, as are your operatives.

WHERE WILL YOU BE? CONTEST #7

You are to get to a point on a circle. You’ll most likely need ‘operatives’ for this part of the contest.

We will give you enough information for you to be able to determine three points along this circle. We will not tell you where the center of the circle is, or its diameter or radius. We will tell you that the three points that you’ll determine on this circle are 45 deg. apart when measured from the center of this circle. If you draw a straight line between any two of these three positions (that you’re about to determine), you’ll find this line measures 67.2513 meters.

For you to figure out the positions of the three points on this circle:

a) Start at 12S 587251 E and 4266203 N (in WGS84). Look for a GPS tag above a seven foot door, glued to framework of an abandoned workshed. What is the tag #? ______ From this position, go 530 km, plus the # on the tag in kilometers, plus add on .552350 km. This will get you to one of the positions in the circle. The compass bearing you must follow is 321deg. 03min. 43.9499sec. True.

b) To get to the other position, go to 9U 711176 E and 5531675 N. There you will find a wooden stake. Total the two tag #’s on the stake. What is this #? ______. Subtract 1785 from this number (presume # is kilometers), then add to this number .164906 kilometers. Use a compass course of 115deg. 58min. 11.3757sec. This will get you to the second position on this circle.

c) You’ll need a third position along this circle to ‘stabilize’ the circle, so there can only be one outcome. So, to get the 3rd position, do this:

Go to 11S 683752 E and 4346151 N. Look in a Westerly direction. There you will see a sign on a structure with 7 large red letters (for a reference, you’ll also see 6 green letters under the red letters) There’s an apostrophe between the 6th and 7th red letters. Ignore it. Using the formula, A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4, E=5, etc. produce a number that gives a numerical number of what the 7 red letters ‘say’. ________ This should be a 12 digit number. Divide this number by 91411318. What is this number? ______ Express it in ‘meters’. You will now have a 4 digit number and decimal points after the number. Ignore the decimal points. To get to the third point on this circle from 11S 683752 E and 4346151 N, follow a compass course of 329deg. 23min. 18.7766sec. for a distance of 7823 kilometers, less 6480 kilometers, plus .614895 kilometers added to your answer. This will get you to the 3rd position on the circle.

You now have three positions along this circle. We have given you the straight line distance between any two points around the circle that are 45 deg. apart when measured from the center of the circle. You should be able to figure out the arc from this information.

Now walk around this circle until you find a buried mini-moonbomb. What are the two tag numbers on this mini-moonbomb? _______&______

Note: You must answer all the questions asked. Please take photos of all positions and place on vigps. Also notify TheTeam@shaw.ca of your finds plus all tag numbers.

Here are the various items to locate. Please report back to TheTeam@shaw.ca the correct # or #’s. When you do, you will be given further instructions…

Coords for #15 have changed! 20 Nov 2004, 9:57am

PING PONG CONTEST!

1) Buried moonbomb 10U 409397/5463044

2) Buried steel bar 10U 409554/5462698

3) Buried black wooden stake 10U 374228/5480728

4) Buried yellow stake 10U 408898/5462678

5) Buried yellow stake 10U 408695/5463770

6) Moonbomb (buried) 10U 408786/5464257

7) Moonbomb (buried) 10U 407997/5464576

8) Moonbomb (buried) 10U 397506/5468574

9) Buried steel bar 10U 370329/5483653

10) Moonbomb (buried) 10U 414036/5456757

11) Buried steel bar 10U 409965/5461962

12) Moonbomb (buried) 10U 412351/5460852

13) Moonbomb (buried) 10U 411251/5461901

14) Buried steel bar 10U 454367/5402499

15) Buried steel bar 10U 454370/5386021 – coords changed!

16) Steel bar hidden four feet up in an old dead tree. 10U 479755/5367469

17) Steel bar hidden inside a large stump. 10U 451019/5390540

18) Buried steel bar 10U 377134/5475442

19) Buried steel bar 10U 408483/5463900

20) Buried steel bar 10U 409066/5463894

GOOD LUCK TO ALL CONTESTANTS!

Same rules/conditions as #’s 1-5….photos required at all clue positions, and posted on vigps.com. You and all operatives are responsible for your own safety and well being….

In all these contests we expect you to have measurement accuracies of +/- 1%.

WHERE WILL YOU BE? CONTEST #6

1) Position yourself at 10U 475938 East 5362273 North in WGS 84 (compass declination 19deg. E).

a) How far is it to the western most ‘pillar’ that is obvious in the Chinese Cemetery? ______

b) Sight at 251deg. In the distance you’ll see a house with 4 roof skylights. How far is it to the right hand skylight? ______

c) How far is it to the top of the Mungo Martin totem pole? ______

d) Sight at 277deg. to a small church steeple. How far away is this steeple? ______

e) Sight at 279deg. In the distance, look for a highrise building with 3 grey bands running down the side of it. On the roof is the mechanism for the elevator shaft (that’s enclosed of course). How far is it to this enclosure? ______

2) Stand beside Mungo Martin’s totem pole, (Victoria, B.C.) proceed 74.607304 miles at 326deg. 56min. 49.3318sec. Determine this position. From here, sight at 61deg. How far is it to the highest building with a black roof far in the distance? ______

3) Go to 49deg. 19.720min. 124deg. 49.226min. From here, sight at 224deg. How far is it:

a) To the nearest corner of a red barn with a silver roof (there’s a small tree in front of the barn) ______

b) If you ran a horizontal line from where you sight from, to an aerial position over the nearest corner of the barn, what would be the horizontal distance? ______

4) There’s an old 1916 benchmark located out in the desert near the Southeast end of Lost World Butte (some 2km. Northwest of Tombstone Rock). Folks in Moab, Utah can clue you in as to where this is. Determine the UTM of this benchmark. From the position you determine, proceed 959.964865 miles at 319deg. 59min. 27.3995sec. What old piece of a wreck is found here? ______

5) Using Garmin software, go to the intersection of California Avenue and 10th Street, in Libby, Montana (USA). From here go 415.991280 miles at 282deg. 45min. 23.2446sec. You’ll be beside a sign. What does it say? ______

One winner (individual or team) takes all; $500.00 Cdn. You and your operatives are responsible for your own safety and well being.