The Cacher Tribute Series: Jshults (TCTS - #3) Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 7/20/2009
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Congratulations to Jshults on FTF!

This cache is a part of The Cacher Tribute Series, a series which tries to honor the cachers that have had the most influence over us in our young caching career. The cachers honored in this series have made our caching experience more exciting, more enjoyable, more meaningful. We will be putting out these caches as we get them completed and this will be an ongoing series as we have not already met all of the cachers that will have a profound effect on us. One of the great things about caching is communicating with other cachers and sometimes the best way to communicate with another cacher is through hiding and finding caches.
Jshults

What does the caching community love best? Finding more geocaches. What is Jshults best at doing? Hiding more geocaches. Jshults has given more back to the geocaching community than most, especially if you measure by volume. We have found 96 caches placed by Jshults and we feel no closer to finding them all. This may be because he publishes caches at about the rate that we find them. More than 6% of the caches we have found he has placed. Wherever we go we find evidence that Jshults was there before us. Even after finding 90+ of his caches, we still are never sure what to expect when faced with a Jshults hide. It could be in a parking lot under a lamppost skirt or nestled in a rock near a hidden waterfall that you’ve driven by countless times and never knew existed. It could be a unique concept complete with plastic Easter eggs or a puzzle that you’re not sure ever makes sense to you. The coords could be spot on or you could have to search all around. The cache could be in the container you expect (yellow fizzy tube) or it could be anything else, a soccer ball, for instance, or a rodent. Sometimes finding the cache is more difficult if you go in thinking you know what to expect. We have learned this the hard way thanks to Jshults.

We had never heard of Zip Fizz before we started finding Jshults caches, but after handling so many containers of it, the bright yellowness must have overcome our will power and we felt that we had to try some. We went to store after store to find ourselves a tube of the stuff, but at each store we went to the story was the same. They were out, sold out, and they wouldn’t be getting more until their next shipment came in. As our Zip Fizz DNF-count kept rising we started to ask ourselves whether we were following in the wake of that crazy cacher. When we were about exhausted in our search for Zip Fizz and about to give up, wondering just where Jshults got all the energy to hit up every store in a five mile radius and still place and find caches, we at last found a store that had a few packages left. We learned one very important lesson that day: if you’re looking for a Zip Fizz, don’t look in the store; pick up your GPS and go caching.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Yhpxl Ahzore Guvegrra

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)


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