GC4D8GG You Shall Not Pass!! (Unknown Cache) in Pennsylvania, United States created by AP Calculus Period 3

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Hidden : 5/30/2013

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The posted coordinates are not correct. Solve the puzzle below to find the correct coordinates. Cache is a bison tube - please BYOP.

This year after the Advanced Placement Calculus test, my seniors studied a unit on cryptology, ciphers, and puzzle solving. Students researched the history of different ciphers, encrypted and decrypted by pencil/paper and the internet. Of course solving geocache puzzle caches was the final project of the unit. The culminating activity was to hide a geocache as a class and develop a puzzle for the whole world to solve. So here is what AP Calculus Period 3 of the graduating class of 2013 created for their puzzle:

As a math teacher I have an assortment of weird math T-shirts. One of my class's favorites is one of Gandalf the Grey telling a vertical asymptote "You Shall Not Pass!". Yes this is a math joke and if you do not get it - sorry. Of course this is a play on Gandalf facing the Balrog in the Mines of Moria in the first installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I have also seen this phrase used as a stamp for teachers to use on a test or assignment - in jest, hopefully. With that background information, here is the cipher...

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