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Ryan:The Final Search & Rescue Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 9/10/2012
Difficulty:
5 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:

The final location of Ryan and his cache is NOT.....at least hopefully not.......at the posted coords as they are in the middle of a quarry.
Your goal is to locate Ryan's new temporary home and sign the final log to get credit for finding him.
He may not be home when you get there, but there will be no mistaking that you are in the correct place.....if......you can find that place......good luck!

For those who have not followed the "Ryan" story, here is a quick synopsis of his saga.
On May 17th Ryan aka "youngins3" set out with his team mates the "Froggerz" to compete in the Amazing Race on the Bug Line
I always wondered why the Froggerz always went by simply "M" and "J"
It seems very suspicious now at this point, since, as the story goes, Ryan got split up from them along the route.
The froggerz are mum on what happened to him.
See the various notes and pictures posted on GC3BQ68, for a better idea of the whole story
All we know is that he MAY have completed possibly Cache #1 or #2 of the 32 caches in the race, when he became seriously lost and disoriented.
Over the last month or so a series of clues began to immerge as to Ryan's whereabouts.
Some were disturbing and showed signs that his situation was getting desperate.

Here is a picture of Ryan in his usual enviroment, I am not sure what condition he is in after also 5 months lost out there somewhere, living off the land.

With the winter season fast approaching its time to get serious and send out a search and rescue and finally get Ryan back home!

The previous 9 "Where's Ryan" clue caches are not required to do this Final Search and Rescue, but they will help, as each one of them is related to each of the 9 WP's in this puzzle/multi

PLEASE RESTRICT YOUR SEARCH TO DAYLIGHT HOURS DUE TO THE LOCATIONS AND DIFFICULTIES OF THE WPS
The wps are dispersed throughout the Sussex area, so you will be driving between many of them.

Solve the following puzzle by identifying the people in the pictures and using the last digit of their birth year to fill in the blanks.
Then use the hints below to line up the clue cache with each wp.
Your search and rescue will not be easy, many of the wp's are tricky and you will encounter some twist and turns along the way.....At this point we still are asking the question...."Where's Ryan?"

Your search and rescue begins here:
N43 AB.CDE
W88 FG.HIJ
AMINUS 1
BPLUS 5
CMINUS 1
D EPLUS 2
F
G
HPLUS 4
IPLUS 2
JPLUS 1

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


I have recieved permission from Waukesha County to place several of the WP's on Waukesha County Parks property.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

JC1= Pyhr pnpur 5 JC2= Pyhr pnpur 7 JC3= Pyhr pnpur 6 JC4= Pyhr pnpur 9 JC5= Pyhr pnpur 1 JC6= Pyhr pnpur 3 JC7= Pyhr pnpur 2 JC8= Pyhr pnpur 4 JC9= Pyhr pnpur 8 Svany=ab uvag

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)