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GCHM27

Traditional CacheStay on Target

A cache by beej71     Hidden: 2/1/2004

Size: Size: Small (Small)     Difficulty: 2 out of 5     Terrain: 2 out of 5 (1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)


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N/S ? ??.??? W/E ??? ??.??? 
In California, United States

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Weirdness on the Albany Bulb. Terrain is a fairly easy walk of about 1 km. This small cache is the fourth-generation cache in this place; the previous three were pillaged.
Take a nice bike ride or easy hike across the meandering landscape that is the Albany Bulb. This ex-industrial waste dump is now a park littered with bizarre and beautiful artwork.

If you have a camera, bring your telephoto lens for pictures of the avian life, and bring your regular lens for pictures of the crazy sculptures.

After you locate the cache, you'll probably want to inspect the array of constructions just east. Also it's worth your time to follow this find with a walk down the path to the northwest, then cut north at the water. (Low tide recommended!) On the northwest and north edges of the 'Bulb, you'll find all kinds of good stuff!

This is a camo-taped small-sized cache, but with enough room for a few goodies. I left a euro or two in the cache when I placed it.

(This cache used to be called Bullsi, due to a large painting of a target nearby. The cache was stolen, and the owner moved far away. I replaced it with a new cache called Stay on Target, so-named for the same nearby painting. The nearby painting had since been painted over with faces. Then a skatepark was built, and the slab was removed and the cache, which had been chained below it, was pillaged; so I put a new cache on a nearby overlook. And then, as if the story could possibly be over, the cache was pillaged again from the overlook. The beautiful and lovingly-crafted skatepark, too, has been demolished, probably by the State which recently acquired the land--that's just not right, I say, even if the skaters were in any way responsible for the original pillaging.)

 


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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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)

[One starter hint, since I like geology: I placed some smallish vesicular basalt pieces nearby]
[Hint 1] vil tebggb
[Hint 2] 1 phovg sebz cngu
[Hint 3] guvpx penpxrq fyno
[Spoiler] haqre pbapergr fyno oruvaq vil arkg gb aneebj cngu
(Decrypted Hints)

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Found it192     Didn't find it7     Write note14     Owner Maintenance1     Update Coordinates2     

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 February 5 by TheVJ's (20 found)
Thanks for the cache and the hint! Hubs found all three before today, and I needed the help!

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 February 3 by two bison (8634 found)
10:46 a.m. - The nearby Gathering Area, easily seen when viewing the Bulb on Google Earth, brings throughts of pagan rituals. Those would probably keep the locals up at night though and wouldn't be tolerated.

Thanks for the cache.


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 January 14 by Gealabhan (941 found)
Caching with Dalvey and she noticed something suspicious to make quick work of this one. I did my normal drunken bee routine with GPSr in hand.

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 January 14 by Dalvey (99 found)
This cache was located not too far from a fabulous rebar sculpture garden which I would like to have toured, had I had more time. Some of it was true metal sculpture that looked like someone hauled an arc welding unit out here to create it. The cache general area had a really nice feel to it, felt like a place to sit and rest and look about for some time. Very stimulating, creative environment on the whole. Thanks to those who helped preserve Albany Bulb and its fantastic concrete/rebar art!

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 January 3 by headlamp (1407 found)
Did not see a target near the cache, but there is one almost in eyesight. We go there regularly for toilet paper, dish soap, etc...

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Current Time: 2/9/2010 9:43:41 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) (5:43 AM GMT)
Last Updated: 2/5/2010 5:56:03 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) (1:56 AM GMT)
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Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum


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