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Sligo Creek History Lesson Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

SirCrab: Unfortunately the owner did not respond to the previous note so this is being archived. Should the owner decide to repair/replace this and have it unarchived, it can be done as long as it still conforms to the guidelines.

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SirCrab
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Hidden : 4/4/2012
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

An Unknown cache in Sligo Creek Park.

This is a very easy find less than 15 feet off the path. But first your going to have to do some web surfing about the history of Sligo Creek. (Hint: This is straight from a Wikipedia article) Here are the final coordinates:

N 39 01. ABC

W 077 01.ADE

A= __5% of the watershed is in Montgomery County.

B= The creek is approximately __.1 (14.6 km) long.

C= The average gradient for the course of the creek is 0.7__%

D= Sligo Mill was built in 1__12 by investors that included several members of the prominent Maryland Carrol family.

E= ...with a drainage area of about __ 1.6 sqaure miles.

The cache is a clear Lock N' Lock container. The find is really easy (the difficulty level is for the puzzle) with minimum buschwhacking.

For those of you who want to read more, here is the link.

You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.

*****FTF GOES TO CRF!*****

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[For the puzzle] Fgenvtug sebz Jvxvcrqvn negvpyr. [For the cache] Ybt

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)