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Overnight Parking on Mt. Blue Multi-Cache

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confluenceman: What a shame to put this one to rest. Apparently the property near the final is being developed. Progress of sorts...
I could find a new destination outside of the new development, but I'm not in the game any longer. Goodbye & thanks to the finders.

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Hidden : 7/18/2009
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Mount Blue is one of a group of low hills bordered by swampland just off the southeast boundary of Wampatuck State Park.  The property is part of the Open Space lands in Norwell, MA.


This is a 4 part multi that follows an old road as it winds up the Mt. Blue hillside.  The road never quite makes it to the summit, but ends on the west facing slope, where the very delinquent vehicle pictured above has been parked for at least 50 years.
Parking and trail access is from south of the hill, at the intersection of School & Mt. Blue Streets.  There is room for one car off road.  A hundred feet east on Mt. Blue St. is the Stockbridge Cemetery, an historic Revolutionary War period graveyard.

The first 3 stages are 8oz. juice bottles with orange caps.  The final is a 7x9 lock-n-lock in a camo bag.  The cache theme is model cars & vehicles.  The round trip trek is about 1.5 miles.
Be warned: this road is pretty rough.  The first 150 feet are terrible, with mud & standing water.  After that, it improves from terrible to awful, with ferns and low growth obscuring the road almost beyond recognition.  After the 3rd stage, the road fades away completely; the final 200 ft is a light bushwhack.
To make up for the miserable journey, the stages should be easy to find.  The cache is not in the vehicle.  Wear your homberg, spats and bow tie; maybe you can coax the old car to life.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

1 - Ebggra snyyra gerr & fghzc 2 - Ovt ebpx 3 - Snyyra cvar 4 - Haqre cvyr bs pbavsre arrqyrf

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)