It's Your Land (read the sign) Traditional Cache

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

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Like the sign says, "Your Land" You might as well use it.

Today is 4th of July, 2010. Happy 234th Birthday America!
I went geocaching south of St. George out on the Arizona Strip today. As I finished finding and signing a cache, I felt as if someone was watching me. I looked up and saw a couple of people way out in the distance (at least 300 yds away) running.. I mean running in the heat of the day in what looked like from that distance, Boy Scout uniforms. This really picked my curiosity. So I got in my jeep and headed in their direction. As I came closer I realized they weren't the Boy Scouts at all. Instead they were a woman and man wearing BLM cop uniforms. Now every BLM agent I've ever met before were usually wearing something casual like cowboy boots, jeans and maybe a polo shirt with a BLM badge embroidered on it. Not these two. They had the full BLM cop uniform with the full Bat-Utility belt with gun, tazer, pepper spray, cuffs, flashlight etc etc etc.

They wanted to know what I was doing out there. They even employed the "good cop bad cop" attitude with the girl being the bad cop. I was rather amused, and I could see that they noticed. Bad cop didn't like it one bit and came on strong with. "You know that if you are going to hide geocaches on BLM property you need to notify the BLM don't you?" My reply went something like; "I've never heard of BLM property. I have heard of BLM Land that belongs to the citizens of the United States and that it is merely mismanaged by the BLM." At that point she cut me off and said "The reason for the notification is to get permission because your geocaches might cause litter and trash to happen on BLM propert.... I mean land." To that I replied "There are hundreds of thousands of geocaches on BLM land. Have you noticed a problem with litter and trash from geocaches because I haven't? For me, they are hidden all over the place and I have to use a GPS to find them?" I also asked her if she was aware that there was a geocache hidden in the St George Field Office's planter outside the front door of the building. She asked me where the geocaches in that part of the desert were hidden. I told her to get a GPS and go find them herself because I didn't know where most of them were.
Good guy cop asked me what I was doing over were I'd just come from. I told him that I was signing a geocache log book. He asked me "Where exactly was that?" This question sort of stopped me dead in my tracks because I couldn't believe how dumb a question that was. I said, "It was EXACTLY where I was when you were watching me through you binoculars as you saw me signing it." He said something like, "Oh yeah, that's kind of what I thought." Imagine how disappointed they were when they realized that they were questioning an old guy that was nearly 60 years old who was drinking a Costco bottled water and eating a Cliff Nutrition Bar instead of trafficking 20 kilos of meth?

My impression of these two, even though I didn't say so was that their boss probably only allowed them to have one bullet and they had to carry it in their shirt pockets like Andy of Mayberry made Barney Fife do. Thought about going back out today in my truck to see if I could recreate the same scenario, but thought better of it. This time I may have been accidently shot. So today I'm laying low.

Camo film can
Along Mojave Co. Rd. 5 south of St. George.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Guvf vf gbb rnfl. Lbh fubhyqa'g arrq n uvag.

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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