Smoke Rises Over The Merrimack River Traditional Cache

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Without Wax: After noting 3 DNF's in the past three week, I visited my cache today to find my large ammo- can-container missing. It has been in the same place - quite out of the way - since 8/29/2018 and had 34 successful visits, with no DNF's until just recently. I am extremely disappointed since another ammo-can-container was stolen from my 2006 cache, GCVQP1, last October.
As a 82 year old senior who has been geocaching since 2004, what is going on?

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Hidden : 8/26/2018
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


Just minutes from the west side of the Tyngsboro Bridge - which spams the Merrimack River and divides the town - is Farwell Road, which is off Middlesex Road (Rte 3A), the entrance road toward the cache. Farwell Road can also be entered one mile up 3A at the traffic light, across from the Dream Diner. Travel a short way down Farwell Road to Helena Drive. Head down Helena Drive - which becomes River Road - and shortly after crossing the railroad track, pull in to the small gravel parking area for the Hunter Trail. You will be able to see Parlee Farms off in the distance farther up Farwell Drive when you park.  Please stay off the Parlee property when you pass by their apple orchards near the cache parking spot . Round trip for this cache is 20-25 minutes and just over a half mile total.

Fifth in the Smoke Rises series, the entrance to the trail is approximately 120 yards down from the parking area just at the bend in River Road. Avoid driving down River Road as it is a dead end. This gem of an area is one of the few spots in town that has access to the historic Merrimack River where Indian tribes camped, hunted and fished. It's located in the area of "The Bend in the River", a fascinating book authored by a late acquaintance of mine, John "Jay" Pendergast, describing this nine-mile area of which this trail is a part and where Natives lived during the Archaic Period, 8000 BC to 1000 BC right up until the mid 1600's. The trail parallels the river within 40 yards and the river banks can be fairly steep, but just beyond the picnic table by the trail is a cut in the river bank that descends gradually to the river. This is the safest access to the river for children. Beyond the end of the Hunter Trail - which is divided by a stone wall at the end of the trail - are large cornfields that lie within an area bounded by the river and the railroad track. Approximately 2/3 back on the return hike on the trail, take the trail that goes left along a stone wall, bringing you out to the far corner of a field within view of the parking area. The bigger Norton/Hunter field behind the field you exit out to is sometimes used for flying drones. These fields are kept mowed by the town to keep the grass lower to cut down on ticks. If you enjoyed this cache, you might want to visit Double Trouble, another one of my caches just 3 minutes away across the Tyngsboro Bridge on the Bell Property across from the Tyngsboro Library. There is yet another one of my Tyngsboro caches, Smoke Rises Again, located in the Shady Glade Conservation Area on Primrose Lane. across from the Tyngsboro Library. Last, but not least is another Tyngsboro cache Smoke Rises Again located in a neat conservation area on Primrose Rd.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

12' hc sebz bcravat va fgbar jnyy ng raq bs genvy.

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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