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Spruce Willis Die Hard Challenge Mystery Cache

Hidden : 1/11/2019
Difficulty:
5 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Spruce..er Bruce.. Willis was 33 years old when Die Hard was released in July, 1988. In the film he portrays John McClane, a streetwise New York cop who alone fights overwhelming odds to take on terrorists who seize hostages and attempt to steal bearer bonds held in a Los Angeles skyscraper.

Are you a die hard geocacher? This challenge will task your planning, skillfulness, fortitude, and celebrate geocaches that have survived in the wild for more than one year. Your mission, if you accept, is to find 33 caches on their 1st year or later birthday. Only Traditional, Unknown, and Multi-caches count. And you must find at least ONE of EACH of these three types on their birthday.

You can accept the mission at any time by going to the posted coordinates, finding Spruce Willis, and signing your username to the sign-in sheet. A “found it” smiley can only be claimed after you have completed the mission and receive a successful result on the challenge checker provided below. Copy and paste the "example log" output from your checker result in your log, not the lengthy entire script output please.

PGC Checker

On your found it log, please post fun and interesting experiences you achieved completing this challenge. Such as:
What's the oldest birthday cache you visited?
What was your favorite (or least favorite) geocache for this challenge?

Congratulations for being a die hard geocacher! Yippee ki-yay______________!
Congratulations to Edwards654 and 2lablovers for being the first to complete the Die Hard Challenge!
May 2024 Update: I have increased the Difficulty and Terrain Ratings based on the number of attempted geocachers who don't yet qualify for this cache. The Terrain rating is the combined overall ratings of the birthday caches you will need to find to qualify for the smiley.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

RQVF GFNR TAVTANU

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)