THE B.C. / STATESIDE CONTEST

WGS 84

(Including pages 453095 & 453096)

(These  #’s are for The Team’s reference only)

Start at 10U 478117 E and 5364934 N   (Declination 11 ½ deg. E)

From this position (your sighting position):

A)    Sight at 205 deg. T to a piling in the water near Todd Island.  What is the distance in meters?  __________

B)     Sight at 174.90 deg. T to a channel marker on a concrete base.  What is the distance to it in meters?  __________

C)    Sight at 194 deg. T to a green glass window on a house high up on a hill (house is 40 meters above sighting position).  What is the distance in meters? __________

D)    Sight to the top of an antenna on a high building at 244 ½ deg. T (the antenna is 120 meters higher than your sighting position).  How far is it to the top of the antenna?  __________

E)     Sight at 236 deg. T to a sign on the blue teahouse at Willows Beach.  How many meters away is the sign?  __________ (center of sign)

F)     Sight at 161 deg. T to a channel marker.  How many meters distant is it?  ________

G)    Sight at 229.25 deg. True to the furthest left chimney of a large white house with a dirty orange colored roof. (The chimney top is 37 meters higher than your sighting position).

How many meters distant is the chimney top?  __________

H)    How many meters is it to a large white channel marker (with a railing around its base)?   __________The channel marker bearing from your sighting position is 134 deg. T.

Now total up all of these measurements.  Call them meters = ___________

Let’s hope you’ve done this right!

Now go to 12S 616060.579 E and 4259770.058 N

From here follow a compass course of 060deg. 12 min. 16.0573 sec. deg. T for the total distance (in meters) determined above.  If you got your numbers right (above), you should be standing on top of a GPS tag.  The tag is glued to a rock surface; we’ve put an additional small rock on top of the tag to hide it from ‘external’ prying eyes.  What is this tag #?  __________

From here (the tag), you must locate a plastic bottle hidden in large rocks.  Further instructions will be found in this bottle. 

(Eventually you’ll be required to supply The Team the tag number on a buried steel bar.)

Oh yes, to get to the buried container (above) go to 12S 595679 E & 4315648 N PLUS add to both Easting and Northing numbers, the GPS tag # that you found.  This will give you the correct WGS 84 UTM.  (Follow a True compass course of 329 deg. 26 min. 16.2523 sec.)

What is the tag # on the buried steel bar?  ________

(The note in the bottle gives you all the details you’ll need.)

We’ll pay the winning team/individual $2,000.00 Cdn for this contest.  There will be only one winner.

You are responsible for your own safety and well being.  Photos required on vigps.com for all these locations.  Your x-citing story must appear on the site as well.

Hiking boots recommended and a 4X4 vehicle strongly advised.  Metal or pin detector

mandatory. 

You may use any operatives you want.  The winner of this contest is solely responsible for the payout to these operatives, having negotiated a ‘fee’ beforehand.

This contest has a March 15^th, 2007, 6:00PM expiry date.  We can’t extend beyond this date.

Be advised that The Team could be unavailable from time to time.

Good luck!

The Team