Curse of the FTF #9 - Rosehill Regeneration Mystery Cache
cheesescones: There are reports of undesirable behaviour in the area so archiving. Nine years is a good run.
Curse of the FTF #9 - Rosehill Regeneration
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Until recently, Rosehill Quarry was home to a cache named 'Rosehill Ramble' which became difficult to access due to its placement and was eventually abandoned and archived. The area is so beautiful we felt it was begging for a new cache to be placed, and when we were recently cursed by a cache, a new opportunity presented itself...
This cache is a small click lock box in black tape hidden within the Quarry Park by Cloudspotter and Cheesescones. The cache is not at the above co-ordinates. To find it, you must solve the following cipher puzzle...
EFYM QCJH SXVV TTOB XBMQ ELUJ KPOW PXKR RFBL FGNU XMXB MNLD AYLK YRIR DIIQ JAJF UOMR IFCP FGIH HXER XQGI GJGE JCTU L
To solve this cipher, it helps if you have a pocket decoder geocoin. If not, there is a website which allows you to download the images required and make your own paper decoder. Contact us if you get stuck finding the site.
Once you have your decoder, set the wheel so that A matches A. Find the letter from the cipher text on the inner wheel and read from the outer wheel to find the plain text letter. After each reading, move the inner wheel one space anti-clockwise. Rinse and repeat.
Curse of the FTF Rules:
1. The FTF'ers are cursed! You are asked to place the next in the series. If the FTF can't do it, please would you say so in your log so the 2nd to find can be offered the chance to carry on the series.
2. It is asked that you only be a FTF for this series once. This is to give others a chance to be the FTF and place the next cache in the series.
3. Cache can be any type of cache (Traditional, Puzzle, Multi, etc.) but please don't make them member only unless you can give a very good reason as we'd hate for people to only be able to do part of the series. The cache can also be any size, but Swansea has enough Micros and Nanos, so think big!!!
4. When the next cache is placed please e-mail the owners of all the preceding caches so a link can be added (and curse officially lifted).
5. Please keep the series in the Swansea and Gower area (not over the county borders please!), that way local cachers can follow the series, and other areas can have their own.
FTF#1 - GC1YMA9
FTF#2 - GC1YX4Z
FTF#3 - GC121VF
FTF#4 - GC2OAJJ
FTF#5 - GC20H9F
FTF#6 - GC218QX
FTF#7 - GC231EJ
FTF#8 - GC271WF
Rosehill Quarry
The hill is rounded by a band of rock which is too steep to develop on and is recognised by the City and County of Swansea council as a wildlife corridor. In this band, on the south side of the hill is the Rosehill Quarry Community Park. Rosehill Quarry is a semi-natural urban green space which is not completely formally cultivated. The quarry boasts a number of habitats, such as hillside woodland and scrub, shallow ponds, a stream and a constant water cascade, which falls from the steep limestone rocks underpinning Townhill's summit (which is particularly picturesque when frozen into magnificent icicles). The quarry supports more than one hundred species of plants and some thirty species of birds including sparrow hawks, kestrels and tawny owls; there are frogs, newts and an array of dragonflies and damsel flies, notably the rare bluetailed damselfly – which has been adopted as the quarry’s symbol.
Rosehill Quarry stands on a six acre site which was quarried for stone for house-building from the 1840s, creating the only flat ground in the area. The area stood derelict for some time until the early 20th Century when used as a tennis court by the Rosehill Tennis Club - it later fell into disuse. In the 1970s, planning permission was granted for a block of flats, which fortunately was never built. In the 1970s and 1980s, local residents' initiatives persuaded the local council to buy the land and designate it as a public open space in the Local Plan. The Rosehill Quarry Group was formed, with support from the council, to develop and maintain the quarry as the first community park in Swansea; it was also successful in gaining a Green Pennant Award which recognises quality sites managed by voluntary and community groups.
Other Wildlife Corridor Caches
There are two other caches in the corridor: GC1WEX8 AND GC1WM5R. There are, of course, many others close by.
N.B. The reviewer has asked us to add an extra note: By way of clarification everyone can log their find, and hopefully the FTF person will play along and place another cache, but it is in no way a requirement for logging this cache.
Additional Hints
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Onfr bs gerr