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Along the ArKansas-Great Bend Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 2/13/2002
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Along the ArKansas-Great Bend
Great Bend, KS


Some climbing and descending on dirt paths

This cache is one of the “Along the ArKansas” Caches, that I have placed. Others are at Syracuse, Dodge City, and Wichita.

Parking to find this cache is best on the westside of SW 50 Ave, but be carefully when it’s wet and muddy. There is quite abit of activity from ATVs, so please try to keep the cache hiding place a secret. There is a little poison ivy in the area, but there doesn’t appear to be any where the cache is located. If you stay on the trails, you shouldn't have any problem.

The contents of this cache are in a pink and yellow semi-cammo-painted half-gallon Coleman jug, so please limit the size of items that you leave. Logbook and trade items..

Abit about the Arkansas River…

At 1450 miles, the Arkansas is the longest tributary in the Mississippi-Missouri system. From its source near Leadville, Colorado, the river drops almost 10,000 feet in elevation in 125 miles (from near Mt. Democrat, c. 14,145 ft., to Pueblo, c. 4,600 ft.), carving out scenic beauty including the Royal Gorge. It travels through Kansas, where it irrigates wheat fields, then through Northeastern Oklahoma. There it is joined by the Canadian, Cimarron, Neosho-Grand, and Verdigris Rivers. It then crosses the state of Arkansas where it empties into the Mississippi River 600 miles north of New Orleans.

In Kansas..
The Arkansas enters the state west of Syracuse where it passes just south of town, then it goes southeast, south of the cities of Garden City & Dodge City. From there it goes northeast to south of Great Bend (where it makes the great bend..hmm) then southeast to the southside of Hutchinson, through Wichita, and eventually leaves the state by Arkansas City, where it goes into Kaw reservoir, east of Ponca City and then on to Tulsa.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

NOBHG FVK SRRG HC VA OEBXRA OENAPU BS GERR..abg gbb sne sebz NeXnafnf evire. (V xabj gung gur zncf fubj vg ba na vfynaq ohg vg ernyyl fubhyqa'g or n ceboyrz..V qvqa'g pebff nal jngre cynpvat vg.)

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)