Camo Cache Mystery Cache

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AddHam: Sorry to anyone that might have been working on this one but I doubt there were any. No finds since 2016. I'm not taking the time to put the puzzle back together after photobucket.com stopped hosting the images needed to complete it. Thanks to those that found it.

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Hidden : 12/9/2013
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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Geocache Description:


Like Chinese artist Liu Bolin (did you miss him up there?), this cache is all about the camouflage.

Many people mistake camouflage as strictly being the typical military pattern you see when you GOOGLE "camo." We can't tell you how many caches we've found that are stated as being a "camoed" such-and-such container...and when we get there it was wrapped in camo duct tape but hidden in a spot where it completely stood out from its surroundings.

However, camouflage is about disguising an object so that it blends in with the surroundings. And little did we realize, we stumbled upon a great camo for our caches that are placed in wooded areas.
We had no idea that the textured spray paint we bought at an area hardware store would work so well to hide our containers. We just wanted something durable that was more than a flat coating of green.

If you've found many of our caches (especially on The Challenge Trail), you'll know what we're talking about. You can also read the found-it logs on our My GeoFamily Tree cache. For some reason, that seems to be one of the most difficult hides of ours and all we did was paint the container and drop it in the woods. Didn't really even cover it up.

We've gotten a lot of comments about this paint and it's become associated with our caches. So, we thought we'd pay tribute to the hype and put out a cache that highlights just that.

The PUZZLE:

The solution to this puzzle can be found by staring intently at this photo.



In the picture, you'll find the actual Challenge Trail containers (before we placed them). As you can hopefully see, they are not hidden very well...just placed in the scene. Your job is to find and count the containers according to the questions below.

BUT FIRST:
For the purposes of this cache, we're including individual images of each container with a description below.

MICRO preform
MICRO pill bottle
REGULAR oj bottle
REGULAR lock n lock
SMALL lock n locks
MICRO bottle
SMALL PB jar w/MICRO
bottle in front of it


The SOLUTION: N AB° CD.EFG W HIJ° KL.MNO

Where:
A= # of Regular sized containers

B= # of Regular OJ Bottles times 2

C= (# of small containers) / (# regular lock n locks)

D= ((# of pill bottles) + (# of micro bottles)) / (# of preform tubes)

E= (total # of containers) / (# of preform tubes + 1)

F= total # of micro containers

G= # of PB jars minus 1

H= total # of large containers

I= total # of lock n locks minus 1

J= (# of small lock n locks) + (# of micro lock n locks) - 1

K= # of micro bottles

L= total # of PB jars minus 2

M= ((# of small containers) - (# of regular OJ bottles)) / ((# of regular lock n locks) + (total # of regular containers))

N= (# pill bottles minus 1) * (total # of regular containers)

O= (# of regular OJ bottles) - (# of small OJ bottles) + (total # of OJ bottles)
The GEOCHECKER has parking coords and a hint for the cache location. PLEASE USE IT.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

chmmyr: or pnershy, bar glcr bs FZNYY ybpx a ybpx ybbxf whfg yvxr n ERTHYNE ybpx a ybpx. svany: pnzb xrl pnfr

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)


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