Millhouse

Here in Europe we don't have to worry a lot about dangerous animals or plants. Although in central Europe near the Alps, there are some free running wolfs. But that is not where I live or go geocaching. Most of the animals you will meet here, will run away from you as soon as you are coming closer. But recently I had a close encounter with an animal that could have injured me. While nearing a cache in a forest, I suddenly saw what appeared to be a person with a grey coat kneeling on the ground. A fellow geocacher, I thought, already logging the cache I was searching. So I went to him. Suddenly there were several load squeaks and a group of wild boars, previously hidden from view by a small ditch, run away with high speed. Including the "grey coat", which also turned out to be a wild boar... Afterwards I realized that I must have been very lucky, that they haven't attacked me. Boars, when surprised or cornered do that and they can injure you very severely! There were several reports recently in our local newspapers reporting cyclist or hikers being attacked by wild boars. I met wild boars before but always saw them in the distance and fleeing from me. Never that close as with this encounter! Millhouse.

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The coding is base 31 with the following symbol set: 0123456789ABCDEFGHJKMNPQRTVWXYZ Here is an example how to calculate the waypoint code of cache number 67202: example: 67202 = GCG1PQ 67202-65536 = 1666 1666 / 29791 = 0 remainder 1666 -> symbol(0+16) = G 1666 / 961 = 1 remainder 705 -> symbol(1) = 1 705 / 31 = 22 remainder 23 -> symbol(22) = P 23 / 1 = 23 remainder 0 -> symbol(23) = Q To be compatible with the hexadecimal numbers the first character (G) uses a different (shifted) symbol set.