Clue 6

1. 

• Take the 2 words used as the password to access this page and enter them into the Google Earth search bar but don't press enter.
• A list of suggested places will load up - click on the option which has 'giant sequoia' written below it.
• This will hop you across the mountain rage to a new location.
• Close the information box on this landmark - this will reset your view to north and position it directly above the location.
• Move to a height of approximately 3000m / 3km.
• Click into street view mode.

 

2.

• Below is a screen shot of the circles you will see, 8 of the circles have each been assigned a species of bear.
• Of the 8 species of bear only one can be currently found in California, read the info below and click on the circle represented by this bear.

The 9 species of bear found in the world

Brown Bear - Found in USA, Canada, Russia and specific parts of Europe and Asia. A subspecies of this is the grizzly bear which is the bear pictured on the Californian state flag. No grizzlies have been seen in California since 1924 although there is talk of re-introducing them.

Polar Bear - Polar bears are among the largest bears in the world and can be found above the arctic circle in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Russia and some Norwegian Islands.

Panda Bear - The giant panda and the red panda are not related. Habitat loss is the greatest cause of the giant panda’s decline, and today their range is restricted to six separate mountain ranges in western China. Unlike other bears, giant pandas do not hibernate. In the winter, they move to lower elevations to keep warm, while travelling to higher elevations in the summer to stay cool. 

Sloth bear - Sloth bears live in Sri Lanka, India, Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh. Sloth bears are nocturnal and occupy home ranges that they seem happy to share with other sloth bears. Sloth bears are stocky with long, shaggy, black hair and a white U- or Y-shaped marking on the chest.

Sun Bear - They are the smallest species of bear. Sun bears have short black/dark brown water-repellent fur, with a yellow crescent on their chest. Sun bears live in south east Asia: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.

Teddy Bear - Found in countries worldwide. Named after USA President Theodore Roosevelt, during a 1902 hunting trip he refused to shoot a bear which had been cornered and tied to a tree, this appeared in the Washington Post afterwards as a cartoon. Morris Michtom, a Brooklyn candy shop owner, saw the cartoon, and had the idea to create a stuffed toy bear and dedicate it to the president who refused to shoot a bear. He called it 'Teddy's Bear'.

Andean Bear (or Spectacled Bear) - They are found only in the Andes mountains in South America. The species typically has distinctive beige-coloured marking across its face and upper chest, though not all spectacled bears have “spectacle” markings.

North American Black Bear - The North American Black Bear is the most common bear in North America they are most common in the east, along the west coast, in the Rocky Mountains, and in parts of Alaska. They are also found in a few small areas in the southwest and southeast. The black and brown colour phase of the black bear is common. The white colour phase is more rare occurring in north western British Columbia, Canada. 

Asiatic black bear - These have long black fur with a distinct white patch on the chest that is often crescent-shaped. They live in eastern Asia, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Islamic Republic of Iran, Japan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Taiwan and Vietnam.

 

3.

• This will bring you into a photo as shown in the picture below on the right. If you are not in this photo then re-read the previous steps and try again until you are.
• Use the 2 pictures below to decipher the coded password.
• The 8 pictures in a line on the left represent a coded word (each picture is one letter).
• The long thin picture on the right with letters can be used to decipher this password.
• Use the password, the cipher and the Google Earth photo to decode the single word password and access the final page.

 

 

Did you know the tree you are looking at is considered the largest living thing in the world?

The General Sherman tree was named after the American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman. The official story claims the tree was named in 1879 by naturalist James Wolverton who had served as a lieutenant in the 9th Indiana Cavalry under Sherman. 

It is roughly 2,200 years old and at a height of 83.8 m and circumference of 31.3 m its considered the largest living thing by volume.

 

Well done you've come to the end of the treasure hunt!

• Enter the password below in singular form.
• On the next page are facts and stories about all the places you have visited but hidden amongst them is a small X.

 

Locate the X and click it to finish the hunt!