Skip to content

Hibernal Solstice Cache Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

Team Heldoch: Another geocacher contacted me that he already placed an elaborate cache that is suppose to be a birthday gift for someone and when he submitted for review his final location was too close to the final location of our mystery cache. There wasn't enough time for me to figure out how to make it work for everyone and don't want to spoil it for him so archiving this cache.

Someone should look into why he wasn't warned that a final location of a cache was already placed at coordinates too close to his chosen final location before he submitted for review, seems like this shouldn't be possible.

More
Hidden : 12/21/2014
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

Join now to view geocache location details. It's free!

Watch

How Geocaching Works

Related Web Page

Please note Use of geocaching.com services is subject to the terms and conditions in our disclaimer.

Geocache Description:

Cache placed on winter solstice to celebrate the return of the Sun! Disguised cache the size of a film container. Bring your own writing instrument and please re-hide as you found it.

The cache is hidden on the Cumberland and Oxford Canal Trail. The trail connects to the Fore River Sanctuary trails, which have several other caches.

The cache is not at the posted coordinates. These coordinates are for parking. Solve the following puzzle to obtain the final coordinates. The information that you will need to figure out the final cache location can be found on information boards along the Fore River Sanctuary trail. There are several of these information boards; you just need to find the right ones.

N 43° 3A.BCD
W 070° 1A.EBF

The canal boats were A feet, 8 inches wide.
The canal was dug by immigrant Irish laborers in 182B.
The canal was designed to be C feet deep.
The canal reached D0 miles inland.
The canal boats were E4 feet long.
The canal was designed to carry F 1/2 feet of water.

The cache is placed in memory of our first Garmin Dakota 10 which was inadvertently put through a wash cycle after a trip to this cache location.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Vg vf uneq.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)