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HPGS - Dartchery Mystery Cache

Hidden : 11/12/2015
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

The Highland Park Geocache Series (HPGS) is a collection of seven caches that range from nano to regular-sized and come in a variety of types. Feeling adventurous? Bring your mountain bike! This park has some excellent bike trails that you can use on your way to find the caches.


The cache is not at the posted coordinates, although they make a great parking spot. As you'll see from the dummy coordinates, no hunting is allowed. But that doesn't mean we can't hunt for a cache! 
Dartchery was a sport that was played at the Summer Paraolympics from 1960 to 1980. As you may have deduced from the name, dartchery is the combination of archery and darts. For those of you who have ever played a typical game of darts, this puzzle should be pretty simple.

Note that for this particular game, the players are starting at 501 instead of 301. 


Oliver North and Adam West decide to have a friendly game of dartchery. North and West's hits are denoted by Ns and Ws, respectively. Answer the following questions below to figure out the coordinates to the cache:

1.) Add up the number of points North has taken off his score thus far. (N40 18._ _ _).
2.) How many points is West away from zero? (W78 52.0 _ _)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Svany: Nobhg 4-5 srrg orybj gur gnetrg.

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)