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Quizzing USU - a Photo Mystery (MHM2-1) Mystery Cache

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MountainHobbit: It’s been fun, but campus keeps changing and it’s hard to keep up. Time to let this one go.

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Hidden : 5/20/2008
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

A challenging photo hunt at a local seat of learning.

Find the location of each photo. Take the coordinates of that location, standing where the photo was taken. Use those coordinates as follows below:

N41 44.AB4
W111 48.CD1
(June 2017)
N41 44.EF7
W111 48.GH7
(November 2019)

(in June 2017)
N41 44.JK5
W111 48.LM1

(in June 2017)
N41 44.NP6
W111 48.QR9

(in June 2017)
N41 44.ST4
W111 48.UV4
N41 44.WX2
W111 48.YZ2
(in June 2017)

Most of these photos were taken in Fall 2007 and Summer 2017. Ten years did cause some changes in some of the locations.

  • Final Location: N41 44.abc W111 48.def
  • a=Y+A-W+N
  • b=J-A+G
  • c=S-U+N
  • d=Q
  • e=A+L-E
  • f=U-N+C+L-E

Checksum: A+C+E+G+J+L+N+Q+S+U+W+Y = 71

The listed coordinates are not the location of the cache, but you can discover the answer to one of the clues in my Quizzing Cache Valley puzzle cache there. (Well, you used to be able to. It's not there anymore. Look near the southeast corner of the new library instead.)

Thanks to University of Utah Photo Mystery (GC10TY0) for the idea for this cache. Visit that cache listing for a list of a lot of other photo mystery caches around the country.

You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.

This is #1 in the series, MountainHobbit's Mathoms: Year 2. Don't know what a mathom is? Check out Chapter 1 in the Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien to find out the reason for this hobbity celebration!

Congratulations to The One and Only Kaldric for the FTF!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fgntrf: Nyy ybpngvbaf ner ba gur hccre pnzchf. Svany: Jngpu bhg sbe zhttyrf naq qba'g snyy va!

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)