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Millstone Follies Multi-Cache

Hidden : 5/4/2002
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   not chosen (not chosen)

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Geocache Description:


April 30 2005 changed the starting location to the #2 WP, original start point missing Plan to spend most of the day on this one, nice trails cache sites are more interesting toward the end.

Parking is at the Massapoag Dam on Groton road in Tyngsborough.The trails are on the MIT Millstone Hill Haystack Observatory site.

The trailhead is on a bearing of 130 deg from the "Bear Hill Quarry" cache (N42 38.038 W071 29.595). The trail starts as an unmarked woods road, take the first left on the trail with the colored blazes.

This Mulit-cache has TWO information sites and one final cache. The total trail length is 2.2 miles, assuming you take the right trails and don't get lost. There are a lot of trails and the caches are located off the major ones which are marked with red/orange,yellow & white blazes.

If you continue East on the White trail from the final cache, you will end on Keys road 300 meters south of the intersection of Davis,Ingalls & Keys roads. If you did not want to take the trail back to the start you could park a bicycle/car on Keys road. Take Keys(N) to Davis(N)to Groton (W) back to the Trail head parking.

The information caches are labeled in descending order from #3=start to #0=final cache. All information caches have the same theme, a 1/2 inch length of 4 inch white PVC pipe on a tree high off the ground.

Original cache contents:

2 Toy Indians1 Ball game 1 Clown 1 Fuzzy ball Key chain

The cache is in a 26 ounce Delmonte jar inside of a 4-inch plastic pipe with 2 1/2 inch dia opening small trinkets only

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

#2: 17 zrgref bss juvgr genvy uvturfg ebpx bs znal, ybbx hc #1: Bss erq/benatr genvy ng Rqtr bs ornire cbaq ng gur Ornire’f Pbaqb jnyx 90 qrt gb ynetr obyqre fcyvg va 3 cvrprf, ba fznyy cvar gerr #0: Uvag erzbirq 5/14/2002 znqr vg gb rnfl gb trg gb gur svany pnpur

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)