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This is an espionage themed Letterbox Geocache. Volume of the container is 244 cubic inches. Initial contents include one paper back spy novel, the log book & pen, the Letterbox stamp (bring your own ink pad), and three Boy Scout theme patches for trading. From the Half Day Trail Head parking lot, the hike in is 1.43 miles. Please replace as found. (See cache series history below.)
Denied Area Operation Warning: In Spring or Summer, the signal strength may be impaired in the heavy foliage producing erratic range and bearing displays on your GPSr. If this happens, navigate by GPSr until your display says that you are within 100 feet of the target. Begin looking for the Big Stump, a large dead tree stump scorched by lightening. This is about 5 feet in diameter and stands 12 inches from the Millenium Trail on the outboard side. (This means a hiker navigating clockwise along the Millenium Trail will see the Big Stump just to the left of the trail, a hiker navigating counterclockwise will see it to the right of the trail.) Next to the Big Stump is the Big Hollow Log, about 3 feet in diameter. Look behind the Big Hollow Log for a staked ammo box with really nifty camoflage.
FLASH MESSAGE * * * NIACT: NEEDS IMMEDIATE ACTION
...Excerpted from the Case File of Friendly Agent, Senorita Exploradora:
…As agents the world over have no doubt heard by now, Enemy Agent SWIPER has stolen the INFINITY ORB. We also know that SWIPER needs to deliver the ORB to Enemy Agent MALDITA via dead drop in a remote jungle near YOUR current position.
What you may not yet know is that Friendly Agent EXPLORADORA is working to stop MALDITA from helping aliens of the planet Yawarafyllaer from using the ORB to travel through hyperspace to Earth to render all Earth dwellers into Helpless Zombie Minions (HZM’s). This would be BAD, Friendly Agent ABANZR, so EXPLORADORA is desperately calling NOW for your help.
SWIPER recently stole the INFINITY ORB from the British Museum in London. This ORB was brought to the museum in 1817 from the top of a pyramid exactly 3 cubits tall in a tiny secret cave near the peak of Mount Aconcagua where experts estimate it was placed 6 million years ago by aliens from Yawarafyllaer. Now believed to be a mind control device of devastating efficiency, the ORB MUST be recovered before Acatl (thirteenth day) of the Aztec month of Hueytecuilthuitli or every specimen of carbon based life on Earth could be mesmerized into HZM’s by the Yawarafyllaerians, also called Yawas, for short.
Since TIME is so critical on this mission, Earth needs YOUR help, Agent ABANZR, to remove the ORB from DEAD DROP INFINITY before MALDITA can retrieve it and place it back on top of the pyramid on Mount Aconcagua by the scheduled day of the impending Yawa attack. YOU CANNOT FAIL! The fate of EARTH is in your hands!
EXPLORADORA’s team member, Friendly Agent BACKPACK, intercepted a coded message to MALDITA from SWIPER at grave personal risk. Friendly Agent MAP nearly died determining that this encrypted message gives us the location of DEAD DROP INFINITY in the previously unplotable Millenium jungle. From his hospital bed, he has provided us with his best estimate of the coordinates of latitude and longitude for the dead drop. Armed with this information, you ALONE can stop DISASTER! Best of luck, Agent ABANZR! Make TEAM EARTH proud!...
Intermediate Tack Points:
Bernheim Arboretum Front Gate: North 37º , 55.296' and West 085º, 40.187'
Bernheim Visitor Center - Gift Shop: North 37º , 55.128' and West 085º, 39.471'.
Parking available at BINGO: North 37º , 54.402' and West 085º, 37.296'.
Half Day Marker for Millenium Trail overhead on tree at: North 37º, 54.420' and West 085º, 37.246' .
Clockwise Mile Marker 8 at: North 37º, 53.848' and West 085º, 36.976'.
GC46XJT at: North 37º, 53.591' and West 085º, 36.880' (GC4AQXN is about 991 feet past GC46XJT on Millenium Trail.)
Clockwise Mile Marker 9 at: North 37º, 53.770' and West 085º, 36.978'. (Note: GC4AQXN is 1,603 feet BEFORE Mile Marker 9.)
Cache Series History
GC1PM39 Dead Drop Mei Gui
GCAQXN Dead Drop INFINITY
GC380N7 Dead Drop ZZZ
GC35DQG Dead Drop Friedrichstrasse
GCQB7K Dead Drop Grigorii (Captured)
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