C.I.P. Adam Mystery Cache
Hidden : 12/31/2011
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Since February 16, 2010, there has been a growing South Florida series called C.I.P. (Cache In Peace) centered around the Broward County area. The series involves hiding a cache at a site where an archived geocache used to exist. Most of the time, it's a mystery cache that involves solving some sort of unusual puzzle and/or tracking down not-so-obvious information in order to determine the final location. Most of the puzzles are pretty difficult and some throw a twist you didn't expect in there, though when you finally have that "light bulb moment", you wonder why you didn't see the solution sooner!

Having discovered this excellent South Florida puzzle series, I decided to create this cache as my attempt to bring the C.I.P. series goodness / madness down here to good ol' Miami-Dade. While the date on which I hid the cache was a lot earlier, I wanted to get the official thumbs-up, so I asked for and received permission on July 23, 2012 from Hugo Nyow (CO of most of the C.I.P. series) to add to the series. "C.I.P. Adam", like its predecessors, has a couple of twists in it but has a straightforward solution that will involve a bit of information gathering.

There have been a lot of great caches in the series...in fact, I recently counted and, with the most recent cache hidden on 12/16/2013, there have been exactly 30 of them hidden in South Florida (a few have sadly been archived though they still are in the geocaching.com system), and I encourage cachers to solve these puzzles, head 45 minutes North and hunt 'em down. Two of my favorites would have to be "C.I.P. Jr." and "C.I.P. Walter Kovacs"...."C.I.P. Jr." stood out both for a clever puzzle AND for a tough hide that I considered myself fortunate to finally spot. Two other notable ones were "C.I.P. Mr. W's Deception" (which was unique in the type of cache) and "C.I.P. Turf War 13" (sadly, "C.I.P. Turf War 13" is no longer with us, as is also the case with "C.I.P. Mr. W's Final Exam").

If I were to be forced to name my four favorite caches in the series, I might well name "C.I.P. FTF", "C.I.P. Jr.", "C.I.P. Mack" and "C.I.P. Mr. W". But, then again, there are some in the series that I haven't yet tried, so who KNOWS what might top my list after I've visited them all...!

As is the case with most of the puzzles in the C.I.P. series, the puzzle can be solved in more than one way. Note, of course, that the cache is NOT at the published coordinates...you need to figure out where to go.

Depending upon the method you use to solve this puzzle, there are two possible coordinate sets that you will come up with. I'm thus including TWO geocheckers for this cache. Depending on which method you used to come up with your coordinates, you will either have very accurate numbers (solution #1), or you'll need to subtract .010 from the west coordinates when you arrive at your destination (solution #2, which is .010 higher than solution #1).

SOLUTION #1: (visit link)

SOLUTION #2: (visit link)

Note: This cache is part of my "Finish Old Business" series, in which I finally publish caches that I hid long ago. I checked on the cache two weeks before submitting it for publication and, despite how long it's been there, the final is still present and accounted for.

Good luck and cache on!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

CHMMYR: Ab uvagf sbe abj. PNPUR: Jung jnf vg Wnpx Ubexurvzre hfrq gb fnl ng gur raq bs rirel oebnqpnfg....?

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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