Wilderness Cache: Hillsboro Peak Mystery Cache
Wilderness Cache: Hillsboro Peak
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Size: 
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A nice hike on a well-defined trail to a lookout in the Black Range of New Mexico. The coordinates are for a location along the trail. Continue on the trail all the way to the summit of Hillsboro Peak to answer the questions and solve for the final waypoint.
This hike will take you along a well traveled trail to a prominent peak along the Black Range Crest trail. It will be a 10 mile hike that gains ~1800' vertical, but the views from the lookout tower will make you forget all of the effort that it took to log the cache.
To find this cache you'll need to do a couple of things. First, make the hike to the summit of Hillsboro Peak and locate the red Forest Service sign that is fronted by a small bench. It should be extremely obvious as you approach the lookout tower.
The cache is located at 32 ab.cde and 107 fg.hij and it will be fairly easy to locate on your hike back down the mountain. Your guide to abcdefghij is located below. For ease of solving the typical correlations will be used: a=1, b=2, c=3, etc...
a=the 4th lettter of the last word on the sign
b=the 1st letter on the sign minus 4 on the sign
c=the 1st letter of the 3rd to last word on the sign
d=the 2nd letter of the 2nd word on the sign
e=j=the last number on the sign
f=the 2nd letter of the 2nd to last word plus 3
g=the 2nd letter of the 5th word on the sign
h=the 4th letter of the 4th word on the sign
i=the 3rd letter of the 2nd word on the sign
Before heading back down the trail to the cache make sure to take a picture of yourself with your GPSr in front of the old restored cabin that is near the summit. In order to log this cache, you'll need to post that picture (with your online log) in addition to signing the physical cache log.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
N qrpba pbagnvare uvqqra va n gerr