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Excel Mustangs! Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

Robin_1: Construction fences have made retrieval impossible and I'm unable to check on this one.

Time to bid this one adieu as it appears the barbed wire fencing will likely come down, if not already, once construction is complete.

It's been a fun 6+ year run on this one. This was my first mystery hide!

Thanks all who searched for, found, and helped replace log sheets from time to time.

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Hidden : 8/26/2010
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

***The Cache is NOT at the above coordinates, you must solve the puzzle first!***

Congrats to FamilieRyan on FTF! (8Sept2010)


This Mystery or Puzzle Cache was hidden in honor of the Mustangs.

I didn't go to Westfield High School but I was a Mustang in High School. When I see their school mascot or the statue in front of the school it brings back a lot of fond High School memories.

We didn't have a softball team at my High School but having a passive love of “all things baseball” and having recently watched some very intense college women softball teams compete, I thought this would be a fitting place to start a mystery or puzzle cache.

Wow those young ladies are intense!! Anyway, I digress.

Again … Please do not go to the coordinates above as this cache is NOT hidden in the middle of the softball diamond at Westfield High School.

Okay, so here's my dilemma.

I use a spreadsheet program for most of my analytical work and use it to keep track of my Mystery or Puzzle Caches, their names, original coordinates, and solution coordinates.

It appears that in hiding this particular cache, something happened to my spreadsheet and the resulting lookup routines (which include all types of caches close to my home) gave me the below outputs. It appears to have generated a printout of the formula itself and not the ending coordinates.

NORTH 30° ##.###

                                                      

WEST 095° ##.###

                                                      

The first column of the lookup table was also corrupted (deleted) so I’m giving you what I have.

                                                      

The above info is sufficient to solve the puzzle and gain the correct last 5 digits of the needed coordinates for the cache.

Again, the cache is not hidden in the middle of the diamond at the Lady Mustang’s Softball Field.

Cache is a small 35mm film canister with only a log sheet. Bring your own pen

Click to verify coordinates

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Uvqqra nobhg n sbbg be gjb bss gur tebhaq.

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)