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The Mystery Of Crowder Canyon Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 9/25/2004
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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The Mystery Of Crowder Canyon
Description
A series of caches along the historic John Browns road built in 1861.

To solve the location of this cache, you must educate yourself on the history of this area. The coordinates are missing the last 2 digits. To find them you need to answer a few questions. You need only the internet for your research.


Question #1 What name was Crowder Canyon known as in the pioneer days?

Question #2 What was the toll for A wagon and two spans of horses?

Question #3 What year did James Fears "uncle Jim" die?

Now once you have the answers, you can solve the puzzle.

#1) _____ Canyon. Add the number of letters in the word and subtract by one.

#2) Add the numbers in the amount. (example $2.75 would be 14).

#3) The last 2 digits in the year


Your Coordinates will look like this.

34 18.8(#1)(#2)

117 27.6(#3)

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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)