Keep Calm and Rock(lin) On Multi-Cache

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LostSailRs: Guess this isn't a good spot for this type of cache. After talking to the owners who live across the bike path, it's frequented by a lot of Homeless.

This entry was edited by LostSailRs on Sunday, 05 April 2015 at 00:43:28 UTC.

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Hidden : 10/12/2014
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size: large (large)

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Geocache Description:

Here's a simple two stage multi that takes you on a nice short walk past an old Quarry. Please do not attempt this at night

"The quarry is dormant now on the east bank of Secret Ravine, but in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was one of Rocklin’s most productive granite quarries. In the mid-20th century it was a favored swimming hole, but the water is murky now and a fence prevents access. Massachusetts native Ruben Copp opened the quarry in 1884 to provide granite for buildings in Stockton and San Francisco. After he ran successfully for a seat on the Placer County Board of Supervisors in 1898, he exited the granite business and sold his quarry to the Pacific Granite Company. Pacific Granite closed Copp’s Quarry in 1915. Copp’s Quarry and the banks of Secret Ravine make up one of Rocklin’s most scenic areas. Notice the dense vegetation and extensive granite outcroppings. Salmon still spawn there. The Secret Ravine area was the heart of Rocklin’s gold-mining operations in the 1850s. It was a major population center until many of the area’s Argonauts abandoned their sluice boxes and took jobs in Rocklin’s granite quarries, and with the Central Pacific Railroad as the transcontinental tracks reached Rocklin from Sacramento in 1864."

Source: Placer Herald - http://www.placerherald.com/article/copp%E2%80%99s-quarry-recalls-glory-days-granite
Stage 1 is a smile bison in a tree.
Stage 2 Yeah, it's there. Be careful. Lots of prickly bushes.
Please re-hide this well, if you can see it from any distance, it's not well hidden. Make use of the rocks all around.

 

Congrats to
Sandy Bandy and Wild Drumm
for being co-FTFs!!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[stage 1:] sbhe rvtug sbhe [stage 2:] gvgyr

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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