GBA Backpack III: The Refueling - Sportsmans Hall Traditional Cache

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size14shoe: I swung by today and the area in which I hid the cache was trimmed up. I'm afraid the cache is gone. I tried to look in the other coordinates posted, but I had no luck.

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Hidden : 7/19/2009
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

A camouflaged former vitamin bottled with a few goodies.

This cache was placed during the human refueling of GBA (Geocachers of the Bay Area) Backpack III, which involved an overnight trip to Buck Island Lake. I was *supposed* to go on the hike, but had an injury, which shall remain undetailed, and I had to back out.

Calipidder, Drunken Marmot, bthomas, triplep220, vaudesir and escooby all drove up from the bay area to do the buck island lake cache. I had planned on placing a cache somewhere out there, but instead I ended up meeting most of them at a local establishment to refuel. They wondered how there couldn't be a cache at this historical site, I decided to change that.

Check out calipidder's trip report here
(visit link)

From one of the Historical markers. There are two of them.

This was the site of Sportsman’s Hall, also known as Twelve-Mile House. The hotel operated in the late 1850’s and 1860’s by John and James Blair, a stopping place for stages and teams of the comstock. It became a relay station of the Central Overland Pony Express. Here, at 7:40 A.M., April 4, 1860, Pony Rider William (Sam) Hamilton, riding in from Placerville, handed the express mail to Warren Upson, who, two minutes later, sped on his way eastward.

California Registered Historical Landmark No. 704

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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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