Snow: Plate Traditional Cache

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weathernowcast: I removed this often favorited geocache because it does not comply with NJDEP requirements. Neither does the ATV use on this trail.. See pic. Which has more impact 100 people visiting my cache in 8 years or one ATV? Cache is removed.

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Hidden : 12/27/2007
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

climb up the boulder field to the base of the cliff

Plate

Plate Plates are wanna-be stellars that are essentially moisture starved. They form at temperatures of -10 to -20 degrees C when there isn't enough atmospheric water vapor available to form the delicate arms of a classic stellar.

The series is based on the 1951 International Commission on Snow and Ice classification system. The commission produced a fairly simple and widely used classification system for solid precipitation. This system defines the seven principal snow crystal types as plates, stellar crystals, columns, needles, spatial dendrites, capped columns, and irregular forms. To these are added three additional types of frozen precipitation: graupel, ice pellets, and hail. The classification is the least complicated in a series of snow classification systems. The most complex classification scheme, an extension of Ukichiro Nakaya's work, was published by meteorologists C. Magono and C. W. Lee in 1966. Their system included 80 different snow crystal types. Twenty years ago I used the international classification in an Independent Physics Field Study where I observed snowflakes for the winter and developed correlations with surface and lower atmospheric conditions. Today, the classification system is used here to find structures in nature that look similar to the snow referenced in the cache name.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

onfr bs pyvss haqre n "cyngr"

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)


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