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{MHX} Planes Trains & Powertrails Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 6/29/2015
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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,.,,.,.,.,There is a very unique power trail that runs from P.C.H. in Malibu all the way up to the 101 in the Hollywood Hills on the Mulholland Highway,,,.,..,Since I've gotten to this point I thought I would throw out a "billboard",..,.,.,This cache wouldn't reach this very distinct Los Angeles iconic highway because of the 2 mile limitation put on puzzle caches, but it's in a fun environment nonetheless ,.,.,.,More about the MHX later.,.,,,

.,.,,,,,,.,This cache involves a few steps and would be good to do on a rainy day.,,.,.,The difficulty level is more about the time you MAY spend on it,.,.,.,It is also one of the few MHX caches that is wheelchair accessible being that the Mulholland Highway is pretty dangerous.,.,,.,I'll break it down in chapters so you can finish them as you please,.,.,The solution for the cache location will be here and at the bottom of the page.,.,.,Note: You will only be able to access the castle during business hours,.,.,If you come during bankers hours, you should have access,.,.,.,.,.,.

North {ABº CD.EFG} West {STUº VW.XYZ}

,.,.,.,.,.,Since the placement of the "?" is in the intersection of these two major freeways, we should start here.,.,.If you were traveling from North to South on either of these freeways coming very close to these crossroads and decided to get off before this juncture happened you would take either Van Nuys Blvd for the 101 or Ventura Blvd for the 405,.,.,.,.,Both of these are numbered exits and you must collect this information.,.,Once you have these two digit numbers, multiply them togather to get a four digit number.,.,.,.,This will be the letters for the answer in order T C E Y 

,.,.,.,Posted below you is a picture of a plane captured in flight in Google Maps,.,,.,It is off the coast of Los Angeles County,.,.,.,.,Your job is to find the location of this plane and then match where it would be located in the Geocaching.com map,.,.,That map will not show the plane,.,.,.,Find the closest Multicache to that plane and that will provide you with two more answers.,.,.,The Difficulty rating for that cache will be the letter A and the Terrain the letter Z.,.,,.,

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,.,.,.,.,The "spaghetti bowl" of power trails is in a small town in Nevada named Yerington.,,,.,.,.Not far from there Team SageBrushers created a Geoart depicting an eagle.,.,.Find this bird of prey and locate the cache with the same number as I do in my Geohandle.,.,,.There is only one number in its GC ID#,.,,Double that number and you have the letter W,.,.,

,,.,.,.,.,My Geoart is nothing at all as impressive and not worthy of this one, but I do have one,.,.,If you look inside the waters of Lake Tahoe you will spot it,,.,.,It will not be hard to find being there are only a handful of caches here.,.,.,.There are four night caches here and three of them are part of a series.,,.,.,You will need the geocheck located in the starting cache for these three.,,.,.,.,This cache is a multi so it wont be in the water.,.,.,Next find my 1st Geocache placed on the MHX,.,..,.,Place the coordinates for this cache into the geocheck for my multinight cache in Tahoe,.,.,.This will give you the next four numbers.,.,.,,.,.,

HINT: There's a fast link to the MHX mothership here on this page.,.,.,.,.,,.

.,.,.Fill in the blanks to get the next two,.,.,{19DX},.,.,,.,.,In what year did Amtrak start operating the Capital Corridor.,,,..,The 168 mile California train route that runs between San Jose and Sacramento,.,.,.,.,.,,.,.,And for the final two numbers, how many dots are there on a single standard die {dice}.,,.,,this will give you VF,.,.,.,.,.,.,,.,

North {ABº CD.EFG} West {STUº VW.XYZ}

.,.,.,.,.,I was inspired by one of these power trails in Nevada to create MHX.,,.,.,If it was not for that it would not exist.,.,.,I found Mulholland to be the perfect road to create such a thing here in Los Angeles..,.,.,If you have done such a trail, this one would not compare and be in a subcatagory for the definition of one.,,.,.,Click on any of the links below to get a feel for her if you haven't already been on the trail.,.,.,.,.,ENJOY.,,.,.,.,

http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5MBRN_mhx-the-deer-hunter?guid=15c3792b-419f-4ef7-a2bb-23897af2f1a3

http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5H74J_mhx-the-garden?guid=0d8995eb-623f-43be-8826-b9dc9b276c8f

http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5MEBV_mhx-apocalypse-now?guid=cfa2f76d-4355-4a3a-a709-fb7a647d8364

.,.,,.,.,,.,You are on the Mulholland Trail {kind of}.,.,.,.,.,

.,.,.,.,.More details can be found at.,.,.,

http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5HENN_mhx-the-mulholland-trail?guid=4b10e0c8-31f0-4df3-9b27-b62eef2ad928,.,,.,.,Please check your answers here because the cache is not located next to the big ? mark in the middle of the freeways.,.,.,.,

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

..,..,.,.,Gur ubfg vf gur fvmr naq pbybe bs fbzrguvat lbh jbhyq frr ng n fzhes cvpavp,.,.,.,.,,.,.,.,.,zntangmrq.,,.,.,,

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)