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Lackeys and Reviewers: A Tribute Traditional Geocache

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hzoi: And that's the last of them.

When I pulled up, I was curious why there was a string backpack sitting next to the cache location. After I picked up the PET tube, I heard some thrashing in the woods and a guy came out of the woods. Not sure what the heck he was doing back there, and he was certainly confused by the tube I was holding, but he didn't say anything.

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Hidden : 1/30/2017
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Since we owned a cache in Cache, Oklahoma, dedicated to The Cache Police, it seems only fitting that we hide another one in Lackey, Virginia, dedicated to the folks who help run our little obsession.  And as we can find no town called "Reviewer" or "Volunteer," this goes out to the volunteer reviewers as well.

You're looking for a PET preform.  Parking available immediately adjacent to coordinates.  Please obey park hours.


The term "lackey" would normally seem to be a derogatory one, but this term has been in use as long as we've been geocaching to denote Groundspeak's loyal cadre of professionals, those who keep the site up and running.  They run the nerve center of geocaching at Groundspeak HQ in Seattle, though once in a while they can be spotted at events, presumably after having the server hamsters chew through their bonds.

There are a handful of paid lackeys at Groundspeak, and they can't oversee the worldwide experience that geocaching has become, a polyglot of nations and languages.  That's where over 200 volunteer reviewers around the world come in.  If Groundspeak is the nerve center, the volunteer system is the beating heart that keeps things going.

As we enter our 10th year of geocaching, we just wanted to put out a token recognition to both of these groups and say thanks for all that you do. A special shout out to the twenty reviewers with whom we've worked so far: many thanks to tupperman, 2, fortwo, GeoPolizei, jeeperMTJ.gc, Don Rocbeer, GC-Knecht, erik88l-r, honeychile, offline.cacher, geoaware, geoawareCA, geoawareUSA1, geoawareUSA2, geoawareUSA3, geoawareUSA7, mtn-man, General Disarray, West Texas Reviewer, and YetAnotherReviewer!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Va cbfg, bccbfvgr fvqr bs ebnq sebz cbfg bssvpr

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)