MMMM - Mount Misery Meander Mystery P Ranelagh, Tasmania, Australia
By Budgietas on 01-Jun-23. Waypoint GA27273

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	Unknown or Mystery
Container:	Regular
Coordinates:	S43° 0.000' E147° 0.000' (WGS 84)
	55G 500000E 5239185N (UTM)
Elevation:	161 m
Local Government Area:	Huon Valley

Map

Whodunit Geocache

Description

Location

This cache has been placed on Browns road on the way up to the Mount Misery walking track. All caches have been placed where there is parking. The road is very narrow in places and one lane only, so drive slow in case vehicles come the other way!

Puzzle

The universal parabolic constant is a mathematical constant.

It is defined as the ratio, for any parabola, of the arc length of the parabolic segment formed by the latus rectum to the focal parameter. The focal parameter is twice the focal length. The ratio is denoted P.[1][2][3] In the diagram, the latus rectum is pictured in blue, the parabolic segment that it forms in red and the focal parameter in green. (The focus of the parabola is the point F and the directrix is the line L.)

The value of P is

P = ln(1 + √2) + √2

(Source Wiki)

The cache can be found at the following location

S42 59. (248.7381 x P)

E147 00. (111.518 x P)

Hints

Chmmyr : Znguf Pnpur : Gerr Ubyybj

ROT 13:	ABCDEFGHIJKLM
	NOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Decode

Logs

30-Jul-23

DEZ055

Was up bright and early heading south to grab some caches and do some shopping at stores we dont have up north.
After calling into a friends place in Ranelagh to say g'day and have a coffee, Afterwards we made our way up Browns road to locate the last of the MMMM games caches we had not yet found in Tassie.
Found all caches Relatively quickly and headed back to Kingston to do some shopping before heading back north.

Pulled up across from where this one was hidden looked in wrong place firstly on scout spotted likely place which had the cache in it, signed log and took required photo. TFTC

07-Jul-23

2y'stassies

As July is a very busy month for us we needed to find a few free days to look for the MMMM puzzles hidden in the south. We had solved the puzzle quickly after it was published and were pleased to be able to locate the hide easily.

Thanks for this contribution to the MMMM Game Budgietas. Container and contents were safe and dry. Our photo of the signed logbook is included with this log.

15-Jun-23

Tassie Trekkers

Solved as part of the MMMM. Thanks Budgietas for your contribution to the games

13-Jun-23

OldSaint

Hi Budge
Enjoyed the puzzles on these caches
This trip was double barrelled in nature
First barrel - to find some caches, of which, this was one
It was Sainted at 1158 hours
Second barrel – to check Mum and Dad’s grave flowers
Both barrels went off well
Cheers and thanks
OldSaint

Rated: for Overall Experience

13-Jun-23

Budgietas

I suppose I could have bumped the difficulty and left where it was

13-Jun-23

Budgietas

Cache has been moved slightly away from snakes home
Puzzle has been updated

12-Jun-23

LuckyL10n

Another nice solution for the MYMMM game. TFTP Budgietas Very Happy

11-Jun-23

WazzaAndWenches

Solved for MMMM

10-Jun-23

gooseandegg

SSR left me to this cache as he had a phone call. No problem until I lifted a bit of bark to slide the container under and a little snake was sleeping there. For a minute I wondered if it was swag, but no it moved!
SSR finished his call and I called him over for a look. Mr Snake wasn't happy and reared up at us! A call to the CO has resulted in the cache being moved slightly further up the road.
Thanks Budgietas

Rated: for Overall Experience

10-Jun-23

C○3 ♀ Ɛ○<<○3

Solved this one this morning. Thanks for the puzzle.

09-Jun-23

geono.

I remember sitting in high school maths and wondering 'when will I ever use this..........?' Brick Wall

Geocaching, that's when. Laughing

Thanks for the puzzle Budgietas. Solved as part of MMMM.

08-Jun-23

MattyRx

Solved this one today! Dancing

07-Jun-23

DEZ055

Solved this one after overthinking it.

05-Jun-23

OldSaint

Solved the puzzle as part of the Mid-Year Mystery Madness Months and have added the changed co-ords to the cache page of this cache
Cheers and thanks OldSaint

05-Jun-23

Smittengranny

Solved this mystery on a wet miserable afternoon during the mmmm game. I wonder if I will ever get to find it. TFTC Budgietas Clapping

05-Jun-23

whitewebbs

Out and about early 7 degrees and sunny when we left home and 1 degree and frost and fog on Browns Road. FTF at 10.05 am and required photo taken for the mmmm games. Thanks Budgie for hiding these 3. We continued on to the Hidden Falls seeing we were so close. TFTP

Rated: for Overall Experience