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Mountain Interval Mystery Cache

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Albedo_0.39: Time to retire this one. Thanks to all who have hunted it. Cache container has been retrieved.

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Hidden : 2/28/2008
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


THIS IS A PUZZLE CACHE. CACHE IS NOT AT LISTED COORDINATES. Parking is at the listed coordinates. Use and follow the trailhead at the green gate. Do NOT hunt this cache at night. Recommend that you solve this puzzle while logged into geocaching.com because the lines and paragraphs of the poem are in the correct format


Do puzzle caches scare you or excite you? For those intimidated by puzzle caches, this one is for you. It's nice and easy, can be solved quickly, and there is an ammo can at the end. Onward to the puzzle.

Robert Frost is one of America's most famous poets. In 1916, he published 31 poems in a collection called "Mountain Interval." The first poem in the collection is called "The Road Not Taken," which is Frost's most famous poem. Structurally, the poem contains 4 stanzas with 5 lines each, for a total of 20 lines.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

 

Solve these puzzle coordinates for cache solution:

N 34 ab.ccd

W 86 fg.hhi

 

a = # letters in first word of line 2, stanza 1?

b = The word "fair" is found in line #?

c = How many roads diverged in a yellow wood?

d = "Because it was grassy and wanted wear" is which line #?

e = How many times is the phrase "Two roads diverged" used?

f = # letters in first word of line 20, stanza 4?

g = How many roads are discussed in line 19, stanza 4?

h = # times the word "And" is used to start a line?

i = The word "yellow" is found in line#?

j = What has made all the difference?

k = What is the meaning of this poem?

 

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Qvq lbh nafjre dhrfgvbaf W naq X? Vs lbh qvq, gura lbh jvyy ernyvmr gung gur cbrz unf n uvqqra cuenfr gung fnlf "gur pnpur vf oruvaq n ebpx gung vf nobhg 3 srrg va qvnzrgre naq nobhg 2 srrg gnyy."

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)