Hare Here !! Traditional Cache

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Junior860: Thanks everyone who scoped it out, since I don't have the 8 hours to drive out and check on it myself. Next time I'm in Coolidge I'll make sure to remove the cache if I can get access to the property. ~Jr

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Hidden : 4/7/2010
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


This is a true story.

I was on my way to Hohokam, a cache by abeNanna (found here: (visit link) Although thoroughly impressed by the site and the space, I was disappointed by the size of the cache.. this would be a great place for a sizable cache, no doubt !

On my way up, I had been following a long wall. April and 3:00pm or so, putting me in a thin line of shade on the eastern side.. so around the corner I come, and something jumps up and begins running away as fast as it can !

Now I'm just a poor boy from Virginia, sleeping in my van and caching around the country. Back home, something this size would be a scavenger, something dirty and most likely with rabies. Or so Mom always warned. But I was amazed to see, after about 100 feet, the beast turned its head.. larger than my kitty back home ! I knew those ears. I knew those legs. I knew that hop..

This was a Desert Hare! I had seen them on a postcard I had sent home to my one and only (
The beast.. erm.. hare.. stared at me. I had the time to whip out my Canon DSLR, with its lens that I am oh-so-proud-of.. for its wide angle.

I barely got the thing in the shot. It looks like its about a mile away.

Then the hare ducked behind another wall, and was never seen again. Startled, but charmed, I continued to the cache in question. (See above.)

On my way back, I found another one... this one not nearly as big as the first.. but they seem oblivious until you are about 15 feet away -- as I admittedly was of them, as well.

As I returned to the place I found the first hare, I saw brambles which I thought I would hide a cache in.. but then, remembering the movie Br'er Rabbit, I realized that the thorns would have been the Rabbits home.. so I moved my idea slightly.

Returning to my car, which had all my cache hiding materials in it, I find a truck pulling up to mine. Afraid I'd have to do some explaining, I am reassured to see the mean and young looking stickers.. sure enough, a man in perhaps his late twenties pulls up, asks me if this is my vehicle.

I swell with pride as he motions toward my Blue Odyssey.. my home, in fact.

"Yes," is what comes out.

"You don't have any dogs, do you?"

"No," I respond, thinking the question odd.

"Good," he replies. "I was just gonna let mine out, but not if there were other dogs about. He's just a pup." He motions to the tinted windows in the back cab of the truck. I shrug.

He U-turns and heads back. As he turns around, I catch a glimpse of the pup.

A rottweiler.

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FTF prize is a hide-a-key in its original packaging.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Orgjrra lbh naq n uneq cynpr.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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