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WRR-3K: DEC the Halls Multi-Cache

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WiiRhyme: It's time to archive this one. The area is beautiful, and needs some new caches.
It had a good run, but it also had problems with the various parts. It was intended to honor a great cacher who is no longer with us. We all miss you Bill.

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Hidden : 12/24/2007
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Congratulations Bill on reaching 3000 finds! Excellent job!


This cache is placed to honor WRR's 3000th find.

The cache is a 3-part multi (one part for each of Bill’s thousand finds) and provides a nice hike through DEC managed land in Kings Park. You will need a permit to hike here.  Here’s a link to the application.  Parts 1 and 2 are 35mm film canisters, the final part is an ammo box with regular swag. All parts are traditional hides and should be easy finds for all.

Part 1 is located about 30’ off the trail near the trailhead (N 40° 52.710, W 73° 14.531).

Part 2 is located about 6’ off the trail. The purpose of Part 2 is to gently guide you along the trail, and keep you from bushwhacking directly from Part 1 to Part 3.  The hike from Part 1 to Part 2 will bring you down a hill, through a small island of pine trees (enjoy the soft needles under your feet!).  This pine area has evidence of teen muggles, so when the weather is nice, you may encounter other visitors.

Mild bushwhacking will be necessary for Part 3 as it is roughly 400’ off the trail, but please do not panic, it sounds a lot worse than it is.  The area is very sparsely forested, there are little-to-no thorns and no PI as far as we could see, but keep in mind we hid this in December. On the approach to Part 3 you will also encounter some elevation changes.

After finding Part 3, you may be tempted to walk back along Meadow Rd., but we strongly advise against this, since there are no sidewalks.  Your total round trip distance should be between 0.5 mi. and 0.6 mi, and if you plan on combining this trip with LLKD-27 Dog Toy Cache and/or LLKD-26 Reptile Toy Cache, then we’d recommend doing those after finding Part 2.

Be cautious and dress appropriately. The terrain is rating three because there are several elevation changes.

Please trade equally at the final part and re-hide all parts just as well as you found them. Thanks!

Congratulations again, Bill!



Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Part 1]: snyyra [Part 2]: fghzc arkg gb fgnaqvat qrnq [Part 3]: qrpnlvat ybt

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)