The Explorer Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 4/1/2015
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is one of a series of easy-to-find caches along the beautiful Warhill Sports Complex multi-use trail commemorating those who influenced the English settlement of James City County, and by extension, the United States. The trail is 3.5 miles long, but has many exit and entrance locations, which you can find here.
Looking for camoed micro tube.


Sir Walter Raleigh was an English explorer, soldier and writer who was imprisoned in the Tower of London and eventually put to death after being accused of treason by James I. Before serving in the Huguenot army in France, he studied at Oxford and eventually became a favorite of Queen Elizabeth after serving in her army in Ireland. She provided him a charter of exploration in 1584. In 1585 she knighted him, and within two years he became captain of the queen's guard. Between 1584 and 1589 he established a colony near Roanoke Island, which Raleigh named "Virginia." The colony failed, and although it was not within the borders of today's Virginia, the name would soon come to stick a bit further north. Raliegh sponsored many other voyages to the new world, including commissioning his nephew, Batholomew Gilbert, and other explorers to voyage to the New England and mid-Atlantic North American coasts. Raleigh's interests in colonizing the new world for England ended with his nephew's death in 1603, when Gilbert died at the hands of natives while leading an expedition into the Chesapeake. Even though he lost interest before Jamestown was founded, Raleigh's decades of championing exploration provided crucial momentum guiding English royalty and businessmen towards colonizing North America's mid-Atlantic.

The clue for GC5WHK9 at this cache is a six digit tracking code. Like the other trackables used to give bonus cache hints in this series, please feel free to log the trackable as "discovered it."

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Because the trail is set in a wildlife conservation area, please take special care to not disturb the vegetation (or the wildlife!). The caches are set up to be easy for you to find. If your coordinates indicate that a cache is in a tree, please check the foot of the tree first, then along the trunk. Caches will never be out along the branches or in shrubs or bushes. If it takes more than a minute or two to find the cache, please check the hint. The trail is open from 7 am until sunset.

Thanks to James City County for keeping up such a beautiful trail and letting us cache here!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

5 srrg bss tebhaq, zvqqyr bs guerr fznyy cvar gerrf.

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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