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Good Vibrations - Crackerjackie's Jukebox Traditional Geocache

Hidden : 9/27/2014
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Another song playing on Crackerjackie's Jukebox.  Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys.  You are looking for a film canister, hanging very winter friendly. Please run wire thru a bullet hole to prevent the container from blowing away when the winds howl.


Good Vibrations was released in 1966 by the Beach Boys.  It is said the inspiration for the name for the song came from an incident in Brian Wilson's early life when his mom told him that animals can pick up a person's "bad vibrations".  The music and lyrics were done by Brian Wilson and Mike Love.  It was at the time the most expensive single ever released.

I was six when this song was released, so I probably wouldn't have cared about it, but my favourite cousin, whom I played with nearly every day at that point in life, had four older sisters who were Beach Boys and Beatles fans, and this song was one of a few that played endlessly in their home. We built Lego and played imaginary games in their basement to this tune.

The cache is a film canister, hanging in a very winter friendly location.  The road to this one will be the difficulty.  It is a dirt road.  It is not rainy weather friendly unless you 4x4.  It is not plowed in winter.  It is seldom graded.  In spring and fall the road is very busy with farm equipment for planting and harvest, but other times of year it is pretty devoid of travelers.  We use the road to get home from the city when there is construction delays in Headingley.

The road is known as two mile road.  The name comes from the usage of the French river lot system to divide up the land.  Settlers were given a long narrow parcel of land that began at the shore of the river and extended two miles from the river (roughly).  When the number of settlers increased and more land was required the settlers got their new parcels of land beginning at the two mile road.  The clumps of bush that remain along the north side of the road are the remains of those settler's yards.

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gurer ernyyl vf bayl bar jvagre sevraqyl fcbg bhg urer. Qb lbh ernyyl arrq nabgure uvag?

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)