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(21) KPT-Jude Hart Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 3/15/2015
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This is a micro as there was no good location here for a letterbox. This can be a bit tricky to get to when it's wet but you can get to it and keep your feet dry.


Jude Hart

Hart was small, stringy, and tough. He plowed with a mule. His dad died when he was thirteen and he quit school and went to work in the woods as a skidder/horse rider hooking cables to logs to be hauled in. He had a 1,000 pound horse dragged over him. He called it a varmint life. During the Batson boom he hauled the first steel oil derricks that replaced the pine frame derricks. He raised his family off hog hunting. It would take up to four hours to hack their way to the hogs after the dogs bayed on them. They would pen up to 150 head which cost 15 cents to vaccinate and for which they got $20-$25 each. He would take hunters into the Thicket with his old tire-wheeled horse drawn wagon. He once explained the term “bear-gnawed trees”. Bears would rip off the outer pine bark to get the inner bark, leaving vertical marks of their incisor teeth so that they could smear the turpentine on their face and ears before robbing bee trees. From the Big Thicket Guidebook

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

oregvr ghor gvrq gb n fvta cbfg.

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)