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Ardenwood: Baba Yaga is Waiting for You Traditional Geocache

Hidden : 2/27/2004
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This 2 inch diameter cylindrical container is located in Ardenwood Regional Park in Fremont, California.
Entrance to the park: N37° 33.185 W122° 03.233

Welcome to Ardenwood Historic Farm. This series of caches will offer you a wonderful tour of this park. Your visit will feel as if you have journeyed back to the 1870s. You will see beautiful gardens, orchards, forests, farm animals, peacocks, pullwagons, a Victorian mansion, cooking demos (during special events), a blacksmith shop and more! Adults and children alike will enjoy this place.

Oh yeah, and bring a picnic! Picnic tables abound.


DAYS AND TIMES THIS PARK IS OPEN
Ardenwood is open year round Tues through Sunday from 10AM to 4PM.

If you own a East Bay Regional Parks pass, it is free.

WEBSITE FOR PARK
To verify opening times, fees, location and events.

ABOUT THIS CACHE
When I first hid this cache there used to be group of very old homes here that were supposed to have been refurbished. Unfortunately, they all had to be torn down because they waited too long and the homes just fell apart. The houses were actually part of a project called the "William Patterson Living History Center."

I had called this cache "Baba Yaga" because I expected chicken legs to pop out of the bottom of the houses at any second.

MORE INFO
This cache is one in a series of caches belonging to Ardenwood Scrabble. In this cache and the other caches that comprise this series, you will find a "scrabble piece" inscribed with a letter and a number(s) representing a coordinate. Once you have located all the caches, copied the information down from the scrabble pieces, you will arrange the letters into a secret word. This word will reveal the final location of the grande cache.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Va n ubyr va na bnx gerr bss gur genvy nobhg 20 srrg.

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)