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The Chalfont Challenge! Multi-Cache

This cache has been archived.

Professor Xavier: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it. Please note that as this cache has now been archived by a reviewer or HQ staff it will NOT be unarchived.

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Ed
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Hidden : 2/20/2016
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Hello and welcome to my first Multi Cache.

This Multi Cache is the Start and End of my first (proper) Large Series

The Series will take you on a nice gentle walk in and around the picturesque village of Little Chalfont.

There are a total of 36 Caches in this series which I have named Chalfont Challenge (CC). The other 35 of the Caches are Traditional Caches with some of them a little challenging and hopefully some unique.


I would recommend doing the Caches in numerical order, this is not compulsory but you may walk quite a bit further if you do them in a different order.

Given this a D3 T3 rating because of the effort you will have to put in to get the Codes

Inside each Cache Container will be a letter and a number. Write these down as you will need them to crack the paragraph below and complete this Cache.

There is free parking here at "N51' 40.373 W 0' 33.570" which is a great place to start your quest. There is additional parking at “N51 40.006 W0.33.984” but the Car Park here is a Pay and Display!

The whole set of 36 are situated within the Chiltern Hills therefore you will have a lot of ups and downs and muddy patches at times. Also lots of overgrown routes during the summer months no doubt. One wouldn't recommend wearing shorts as Brambles, Thorns and Stinging Nettles grow very well around here. The Caches are situated in all types of terrain including woods, roads and fields.

I have tried to be creative with some of these caches as I wanted to push the Geocache Community by making them a little harder and a bit more interesting! I hope you can get some enjoyment from them and I apologize if they are too hard or even too easy and please remember most of them are supposed to be challenging and therefore may take a while to find.

If you do struggle though, please feel free to message me and I will reply as soon as I can

WARNING YOU MAY HAVE TO BRING SOME EQUIPMENT WITH YOU TO BE ABLE TO COMPLETE SOME OF THE CACHES, YOU SHOULD HAVE A QUICK READ OF THE DESCRIPTIONS OF EACH CACHE BEFORE YOU LEAVE HOME OR YOU MAY REGRET IT.

As good practice when out geocaching, please bring a Pen/ Pencil, a pair of Tweezers, Carrier/ Rubbish Bags (CITO), a pair of Rubber/ Latex Free Gloves maybe, and your stealthy mode!

Watch out for muggles as they can be abundant around the whole series. I hope you enjoy these and I hope they don’t stress you too much.

I'll try and point out any individual Hazards or obstacles to the Caches on each of the Cache Pages

Only thing left for me is to wish you all Good Luck and Happy Caching

Many thanks to 'Chalfontcrew' for kindly letting me use their old series locations/routes, The Forestry Commission, the Little Chalfont Parish Council, nottheactor and TeaBandit for the input on there puzzle cache locations and finally to SimonDRedrup for the name suggestion of the series.

A very special thanks goes to my Wife for letting me play this game and keeping all my geocache goodies in and around the house and for putting up with me moaning and spending days and nights on the computer or out planning the route and the cache locations. I love you Babes and we can now get back to having our nights in!

The paragraph you need to crack is: 1,18,12 1,10,15,16,21 11,16,11,3,14 21,18,11,16,2,10,18,15…. 1,12,18,26 11,7 9,16,21,15 14,16,17,2 2,18 18,2,3,14,12 14,15,6 18,1 9,14,17,2,9,18,18,6 7,16,12,25 16,2 25,10,17,17,10,15,8 8,16,2,14 2,22,12,15 21,14,1,2 16,15,6 9,16,21,25 10,15,2,18 9,18,18,6,17. 15,18,2,10,11,14 2,9,18 2,16,21,21 4,14,14,11,3 2,12,14,14,17 18,15 12,10,8 3,2? 18,15,14 2,12,14,14 3,16,15,8,17 18,22,2 18,1 2,3,14 9,18,18,6,17 10,15,2,18 1,10,14,21,6. 21,14,16,15 22,7 16,8,16,10,15,17,2 2,3,14 18,2,3,14,12 2,12,14,14 9,10,2,3 4,16,11,25 16,8,16,10,15,17,2 10,2. 9,10,2,3 4,10,15,18,11,22,21,16,12,17 17,11,16,15 2,3,14 4,12,16,15,11,3,14,17 1,18,12 16 17,26,16,21,21 17,10,8,15!

Good luck and happy caching

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Onfr bs gerr haqre fgvpxf

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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