Black Knights

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N/S ? ??.??? W/E ??? ??.???  [] In Nevada, United States

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THE COORDINATES ARE NOT THE CACHE LOCATION. Read Below. A dirt road to the north, off Hwy 50 before you see Sand Mountain. Follow it though the dirt work, road is sandy, loose gravle and lava rocks upto the size of volley balls. High clearance vehicle is a must.

This offset cache is in Honor of Black Knight 732, an H-3 Helicopter that crashed here on 22 Mar 1978, at 1245. It was dash two and was returning from a successful Combat Rescue Training Mission in Dixie Valley.

LT Reynolds, LT Labarre, AW2 Hart, AWAN Jacobs, and AOAN Staggers all lost there lives. Airman Staggers was not normally part of the crew, but because he had been named the "Plane Captain of the Month" he was allowed to fly on this flight to see what all his hard work was for.

On a personal note, Monty Wolf and I had heard of this memorial in the early Nineties and thought we would go to find it. The spooky thing was, we arrived there at 1245 on the 22nd of March.

The coordinates are for the memorial, drop a way point of your own and proceed 004 degrees magnetic for 401 feet.

Look for a .50 cal ammo can.

Please bring some appropriate flowers for the memorial, my multi-colored ones are all that are there.

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)

Qrfreg pnzb pna va n ohfu. (Decrypted Hints)

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Cache Logs

April 7 by Team OV (1400 found) Several families spent Easter Week at Sand Mountain. Everyone enjoyed the dunes and there was a little caching as well. This is Day 2 of 7 in the Nevada Desert. I have been coming to Sand Mountain since the early 70's. Back when it was all sandrails and the occassional 3-wheeler or jeep. In the day when there was not an entire city formed overnight and there was no fee because you NEVER saw a ranger or sherriff. Bathrooms, what bathrooms. Wow, this was some great history. As a child, I do not remember hearing about this. Or I just did not listen. As I read the log page, I thought oh no. This many degrees, that many feet. There is alot of room for error at 400 feet. But, my husband surprised me and he found it. Thanks. [view this log]

February 27 by dune raider (110 found) TFTH the film can is rotting and stuck T- n L-n [view this log]

February 16 by secret ninjas (591 found) Got it! TFTC [view this log]

January 2 by Bake Bunch (15 found) This one was fun! Left log entry [view this log]

March 29, 2008 by MTbrowneyes (1058 found) In Fallon for the same training as Black Knights. There are a few more of these type of sites around the area, lets pray we don't have to add anymore to that list. TFTgreatH. [view this log]

Current time: 11/22/2009 3:46:30 AM
Last Updated: 4/13/2009 12:16:24 AM
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Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum