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Radical!!! Mystery Cache

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crs98: This puzzle has run it's course and it's time for it to retire.

The solution to this puzzle was to recognize that the units posted for the numbers were in radians instead of degrees. Using a radians to degrees converter (and subtracting off the extraneous factors of 360 degrees for going around in a circle many times) left you with the answer. It was a bit obtuse, but it was one of my early puzzles and I probably made this one too hard. It ended up sparking a few other puzzles from folks who had different ideas about how to solve this one.

Thanks for the many folks who visited over the years!

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Hidden : 1/11/2009
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


Hey Dudes and Dudettes! This cache ain’t at the published coordinates, man.

It’s really at North 44.81699708 by West 121.5142714 man. Now you just gotta figure out what the heck that means—what a radical concept! Whoa, what a rush…this is just too cool.

All bow down to Fish Soup for FTS (1st to Solve) and Go West for FTF (First to Find). You guys are awesome!!!

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chmmyr Uvag #1: Lbh xabj jung V qvfpbirerq gur bgure qnl zna? Vs lbh geniry nebhaq va n pvepyr, lbh raq hc va yvxr gur fnzr cynpr! Jubn--zvaq oybjvat! Chmmyr Uvag #2: Ln xabj, vs lbh tb nebhaq va n pvepyr ybgf bs gvzrf, lbh fgvyy trg onpx gb gur fnzr cynpr. Nva'g gung pbby? Chmmyr Uvag #3: Zr tenaqcnccl nyjnlf fnvq ur yvxrf 2 cvrf--ubg naq pbyq. Pnpur: BX zna, yvxr zl TCFe jnf yvxr obhapvat nebhaq gbb, fb V’yy whfg gryy lbh gb purpx oruvaq fbzr gerrf ba gur rnfg fvqr bs gur ebnq. Ebpx ba!

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)