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The Mother of All Caches Part IV - The Big Kahuna Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 6/18/2003
Difficulty:
4.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This multi-cache covers our entire state, highlighting the state's water resources from the mountains to the ocean. South Carolina is divided into regions that are parallel to the ocean and cross the state from southwest to the northeast. Those regions are intersected by five river basins. The Mother of All Caches is designed to take you to each river basin in a pair of regions. There are three state-wide multi-caches: the Upstate Ramble, the Sandhills Slog and the Carolina Gold.

Please note that the coordinates shown are BOGUS!

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Please note the difficulty rating for this cache.  You will be required to travel an area that spans South Carolina from the borders of Georgia to North Carolina.

SC Landform Regions SC Drainage Basins

In order to locate this cache, you will need to first locate the sister caches (Upstate Ramble, Sandhills Slog, and Carolina Gold).  They each contain clues which will be combined with the information in the clue section of this page.  Find the cache for each of these parts, collect the remaining pieces of the clue and you will be ready to find The Big Kahuna!  

Deciphering instructions:  With all the clues in hand, write down the first word from the Ramble, then the first word from the Slog, then the first word from the Gold, and finally the first word from the Big Kahuna.  Next, write down the second word from the Ramble,  then the second word from the Slog...repeating the process until you've used all the words from all the clue pieces.

Again, you can receive cache credit for locating any of the three (Upstate Ramble, Sandhills Slog, Carolina Gold) caches.  However, you will need to find all of these three caches to obtain the required information to locate and receive credit for The Big Kahuna cache.

You should anticipate that many of the cache stops (intermediate and final) for this state-wide multi-cache will be located in areas that will only be accessible during daylight hours.  Obviously, this is a long-term project and not a drive-by cache!

Remember to "Cache in, trash out!" and to be sensitive to the environment as you cache. 

Clue#4:  Mountain as follow to you large the the big it middle you one rock there scraped surface a five three the cache twenty the a a may a especially months.


Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Lbh arrq gb svaq gur bgure guerr.

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)