Cachemas in July: Twelve Signals Bouncing Traditional Cache
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Cachemas in July: Twelve Signals Bouncing
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A short walk on a trail familiar to many of you. Terrain may be muddy during rainy season (though it was fine when I placed the cache) and is typically very buggy, so come armed with insect repellent and boots.
Thanks to JAMM, a Connecticut cacher, for letting me "steal" the idea for this series.
What better way to celebrate the holidays than with a series of caches. As this IS Rochester, we all know how unpredictable the weather can be for caching in the winter, so instead, we'll be celebrating Cachemas in July! This series is based on a familiar Christmas song. There will be a series of 12 caches, one for each of the 12 days of Cachemas, and each will hold a clue to a 13th bonus cache. Unlike the other caches, this one does not have a clue in the cache (due to the fact I haven't gotten a chance to go out and put more in the cache). Instead, I am including the key to decoding the bonus cache below.
On the eleventh day of Cachemas my true love gave to me:
Twelve Signals Bouncing
Eleven Cachers Caching
Ten Bugs A-Biting
Nine Puzzles Puzzling
Eight Creeks a-Flowing
Seven Miles of Hiking
Six Nosy Muggles
Five Lock 'n Locks
Four Geocoins
Three film cans
Two Travel Bugs and
A Decon in a pine tree
Cache is a small Lock 'n Lock container with room for a few trade items. There's a lammie for FTF. Please rehide as well, if not better, than found.
Following is the key:
"Congratulations – you have made it to the 12th cache in the Cachemas in July series! Now you have all those clues,
you’re probably wondering what to do with them, right? Coordinates for the bonus cache are as follows:
N 43 AB.CDE + the first number in clue #11
W077 FG.HIJ – the second number in clue #11
A = Last digit in the year that the state in clue #6 was admitted to the Union
B = Number of letters in clue #10
C = Where does clue #1 fall in an alphabetical list of states?
D = Number of words in clue #8
E = Number of letters in clue #4
F = Where does clue #3 fall in order of admission into the Union?
G = Numerical value of the first letter of clue #5
H = Last digit of the year that the state in clue #9 was admitted to the Union
I = Where does clue #7 fall in order of admission to the Union?
J = Number of i’s in clue #2
(All information was gathered from Wikipedia)"
Congratulations to dmack14609 on being FTF!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Nobhg sbhe srrg uvtu
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