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Oak Hub Traditional Geocache

Hidden : 6/6/2010
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
4 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

The Cache is in between the villages of Balaa and Boaatra.

You can park your car some 40 meters away from the cache, but then you have to hike up a steep slope. It won't be easy, as it's a pretty steep slope!

There's a good pic-nic and/or camping spot right near where you'll (probably) be parking your car (N 34° 9'41.95" E 35°52'2.52"), so you could camp out there for the night, or just hold a pic-nic before or after Geocaching.

Be careful, the up-slope can be very slippery due to the dried out oak leaves.

Also be advised to wear long (jeans) pants, because the small tress (even though just 0.5 to 1 meters high) have extremely long and sharp thorns.

The cache is called Oak Hub because that's my cell phone number in letters, also because there's a bunch of very beautiful oak trees surrounding the cache.

I suspect that in about 1 or 2 years, there might be some dried leaves accumulated around the spot where the cache is hidden, so you might have to move them to see/access the cache.

Note 1: Do NOT look at the attached pics if you don't want spoilers. Note 2: This cache IS NOT accessible during winter (except if you think you can climb a steep slope covered with 2 meters of snow, then dig 2 meters in the snow to (maybe) find the cache.

There's a logbook and pen in the cache;
I've also put a: Kazakh coin, and an in-water expanding rubber crab. Fimus85 put: a Domino keychain.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gur pnpur vf uvqqra /VAFVQR/ n uhtr ebpx, nobhg 30pz sebz gur tebhaq, oruvaq n pheirq/fxrjrq gerr. Gur pbagnvare vf abg gung fznyy (vg'f n 1 yvgre, ohg engure syng Ghccrejner), naq vg'f genafcnerag/juvgr. Frr nggnpurq cvp sbe gur rknpg ybpngvba bs gur pnpur.

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)