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Not (another) Mine! Mystery Cache

Hidden : 5/8/2010
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Small lock'n lock inside a Quartz Exploration Tunnel (QET) NOT at the above listed cache page coordinates.

No puzzle to solve, but this one is a bit deeper inside than it's predecessor just down the trail, so the above coords take you to one of two tunnel entrances. You can get to the cache from either, as both tunnels meet toward their ends . The cache is hidden at the end of a short (6 feet maybe) annex off of one of the tunnels, under a couple rocks. Without a flashlight you won't be able to see inside the annex, which is why I placed it there - to help hide it from accidental discovery. Please replace as found!

The integrity of these tunnels is good, as they were dug into mostly rock (and have lasted over 150 years), but you should be careful while inside not to loosen any stones from the walls or ceiling! The cache is on ground level.

The miners would dig these tunnels looking for quartz deposits, and I wonder if these two were from competing miners. The entrances aren't quite at the same elevation, and I can't imagine why the same miner would want two of his tunnels to intersect. Just one of those things I like about finding places like this, what the heck was going on?

Terrain is a little higher than Not (a) Mine! because more crawling is required for this one.

Congrats to Richard the bowman
& geodad7 for co-FTF!



- after a week again just like the other mine!

Milestones: #3,500 for graniteman84!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

gerr ebbg ghaary, evtug fvqr naark

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)