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The Blue Ribbon Challenge Mystery Cache

Hidden : 8/1/2013
Difficulty:
4.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This is a challenge cache.

It is not located at the posted coordinates.

After meeting the requirements and solving a nice easy puzzle, you will be taking a short hike into Woodley Park in Delaware.


The Challenge

To Qualify for this challenge you must have found caches with 10 or more favorite points that total 10,000 or more favorite points when added up.

See the image for clarification:

Rules:

1)Caches with 9 and less favorite points may not be added into the total.

2)All of your finds, including archived caches may be used for this challenge.

3)Caches hidden by you should not be included into the total, as you wouldn't have logged a Found It on them. You may include your own hide only if it is an adopted cache.

4)You must find the physical cache and sign the log to claim a find.

Because of the massive list of caches you may/may not need to qualify, and the fact that I can check your profile to make sure you have qualified, I'm not going to require you to make a list of any sort. I do ask (and this is just for fun and not required), that you post what your final total of points would be. Lets see who has the most!! I have about 12,300 at the time I created this challenge.

The Hide:

The difficulty of this challenge is set to reflect the actual challenge of getting the numbers to be able to claim the cache, unless you have a good amount of caches to your name, a little work may be involved. The actual container is located somewhere in Woodley Park in Delaware. There is a creek crossing involved, but in the 5 or so times I've crossed it, I haven't gotten wet a single time. Watch your step as you make your way to ground zero. Some old stone walls can be seen the entire way up, please don't feel the need to disturb them or take them apart in any way, the cache isn't in any part of it. The coords were bouncy when I took readings, I got anywhere from 4-40 feet, so the hint will help a lot.

 

The Puzzle:

Everything you need is in the description. No red herrings, no sifting through source code, no image metadata. It's literally right there in front of you. If you have trouble check the hint or feel free to contact me.

Final Coords: N 39° 47.xxx W 075° 34.xxx

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gur chmmyr: V pbhyqa'g znxr vg nal rnfvre vs V uvtuyvtugrq vg sbe lbh Gur uvqr: ol gur fgbar pvepyr

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)