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Scout's Shavano Stash Traditional Cache

Hidden : 6/8/2009
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
4 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

A stash of some goodies on the way in to Mt. Shavano (close to the trail).


Scout's Shavano Stash provides an incentive to keep going on the route to the summit of Mt. Shavano. It also provides a great view of the Angel Snow field that you are about to cross so you can consider what route you'd like to take. I placed this cache in early June of 2009. The angel and the summit had a lot of snow (I was unable to reach the cache on the summit due the deep snow) the area where I placed the cache was totally snow free so this should be good location for most of the year.

As is my standard, the cache is hidden in plain sight but you have look at just the right angle to see the camouflaged container.

We placed this cache on our way down the mountain and for some odd reason we were only able to get 37 foot accuracy on both our PN-40 and 60csx. (On the way up we had 9 foot accuracy!) I don't want this to be a needle-in-a-haystack type of find so I am providing some more information on how to find the cache. Feel free to print the picture of the location of the cache below to make sure you don't have to search too large an area. (Updated coordinates would be welcome but be sure to tell me your GPS type and its estimated accuracy) Look carefully at the dark gap (bottom center of photo) in the rocks below. That's the location of the cache. You can see it by by looking into the gap but the cache is camouflaged so it's not that obvious.

Scouts Shavano Stash location

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gur pnpur vf uvqqra haqre fbzr ebpxf nobhg 25 srrg nobir gur genvy.

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)