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I Found My Thrill ..... Mystery Cache

Hidden : 12/31/2011
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

..... On Blueberry Hill!

The posted coordinates are mostly meaningless - they will take you to the middle of the swimming pool at the Blueberry Hill apartment complex in Chili. You will not find the cache there. However, if you drive by the coordinates, you will be driving on either "Wind Willow Way" or "Still Moon Crescent", streets named after lyrics in the song.

Fats Domino singing "Blueberry Hill" is one of the iconic images of the early Rock-n-Roll era. Each time I drive by this apartment complex in Chili, I have the song running through my head. We had originally intended to make this a traditional cache, and hide it right by one of the "Blueberry Hill" signs near one of the entrances, but we were unable to get permission, so we had to make it a puzzle.

In researching the song to create the puzzle, we found tons of interesting facts, including that it was recorded multiple times when it was released in 1940; that it was recorded by such greats as Gene Autry, Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, Bill Haley & His Comets, The Everly Brothers, and Little Richard (as well as many others); and that a charity performance by Vladimir Putin became a viral video in 2010. Wikipedia helped us find all this trivia, and it will help you find your answers.

The cache itself was formerly a blueberry colored bison tube (since replaced with a plain bison tube), hidden in a likely cache hiding spot. To get the coordinates of the cache, answer the following questions:

N 43° 05.ABC, W 077° 45.DEF

A = the number of the month of the 1970 Led Zeppelin performance, bootlegged and released as "Live on Blueberry Hill"

B = the highest spot reached on the "Billboard Top 40" chart by the Fats Domino recording

C = the number of times the song was recorded in 1940

D = the third digit in the year Fats Domino recorded the song

E = the second digit in the month Vladimir Putin performed the song at a charity concert

F = the fourth digit in the year Fats Domino recorded the song

This is intended to be an easy puzzle and it was supposed to be an easy find, but Army_Boy camouflaged it pretty good. It still should be fairly easy find.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ovfba ghor.

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)