Shmegglehart's Treasure Hunt #1 Traditional Cache
Shmegglehart's Treasure Hunt #1
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The Tale of Shmegglehart:
When I was about 9 months old, my dad, uncle, and cousins went on a quest to find a mysterious unicorn that disapeared somewhere in the North Shore, my memory of being 9 months old is very blurry, but I recall the fun we had searching for this lost stuffed animal.
It was all documented on one of those cam-corder tapes, back when digital didn't exist. Since my grandmother and cousins lived in West Vancouver, we found ourselves searching in places like Whytecliff Park and Hillside Secondary School, we shot some scenes there just before it was sheduled to be demolished.
I was very curious as a youngster and searching for Shmegglehart perhaps helped foster that (then future) love for geocaching. When we made this home movie, it was 1995, so geocaching didn't exist back then.
We also shot some scenes at the Pauline Johnson School Playground, I recall enjoying that, we did briefly see Shmegglehart there, but he ran up towards the mountains before we could catch him.
Which brings me to why these caches exist.
I received a top secret encrypted note through my mail slot a few weeks ago, it took me a while to figure it out, but I eventually got it. It said that (now after 19 years), Shmegglehart has become a survivalist, living in the deep mountain forests of the North Shore mountains. He told me that there's gold up here, and that there's a huge vault full of gold nuggets and diamonds somewhere inside Mount Fromme, but no one can access it, Shmegglehart somehow did.
I was flabbergasted that such a thing existed, so amazed that I headed up Mount Fromme to try to find at least the doors to the vault, but I couldn't find anything.
A week later I received another note, this time in Gaelic, saying that Shmegglehart left a single gold nugget for me to find under that promise that I won't remove it.
As many people know, the vast trail network on Mount Fromme can be overwhelming, but Shmegglehart gave me some clear directions. Now since I have a GPS, I was able to make sure I didn't get lost, but I wanted to hide some caches to use them as reference points. Shmegglehart has seen multiple geocachers in these woods, and believes that they're a trustworthy group, so he has granted permission for only geocachers to find this gold nugget he snatched from the Mount Fromme vault.
I managed to find this gold nugget, but not without some difficulty, so I have made it easier for the rest to find it by putting the north coordinates in one cache, and the west in another.
It is up to you to find the two caches that together hold the solution to find Shegglehart's Golden Nugget.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
hc-ebbgrq ybt ba gur abegu fvqr bs gur genvy, rnfg bs gur oevqtr.
Treasures
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