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Searchin' Through the Year - February Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 3/16/2009
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

"Searchin' Through the Year" series - February

There often just isn’t enough time to do all of the caching you would like to do, what with family, work and other commitments. This series of puzzle caches is intended to celebrate those special days throughout the year when you get that much-needed extra time off. For each cache in this series, assume North = 43 and West = 78, and write down the bonus number or instructions in each cache. (The cache is not at the posted coordinates, but is within 2.5 km.)

February is often bitter and cold, and doesn’t last long: what a perfect time to celebrate love! St. Valentine’s Day is a great time to reflect on the great romantic couples throughout the ages: Romeo and Juliet; Tristan and Isolde, Bogey and Bacall, Taylor and Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner Fortensky . . . well, you get the idea. Julius Caesar even developed a code to send secret messages to Cleopatra and his generals (although probably not the romantic kind for the latter group), where each letter in the message is replaced by another letter a specific number of characters later in the alphabet. This message has been coded using a modification of the Caesar cipher where the character shift varies between letters; figuring out those shifts will give you the missing coordinates:

ACTNUYIQIT

You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.

Congratulations to AdventureRat for the FTF!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

V ubcr gur gvzr lbh fcraq fbyivat guvf qbrfa'g frg lbh onpx gbb zhpu.

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)