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7000 Days! Mystery Cache

Hidden : 7/2/2019
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


The cache is not at the above coordinates.

On May 3, 2000, Dave Ulmer hid a bucket in the woods of Oregon.  The day this cache was placed is the 7,000th day since then. See how geocaching got started at GC2TEGA.

The 1000th day of geocaching fell on January 27, 2003 with a little less than 41,618 caches.
The 2000th day of geocaching took place on October 23, 2005 with exactly 209,792 caches.
The 3000th day of geocaching happened to be July 19, 2008 with nearly 619,623 caches.
The 4000th day of geocaching was attained on April 15, 2011 with at least 1,346,510 caches.
The 5000th day of geocaching landed on January 9, 2014 with a total of 2,292,329 caches.
The 6000th day of geocaching occurred on October 5, 2016 with roughly 2,791,897 caches.
The 7000th day of geocaching arrived today, July 2, 2019 with a grand total of 3,186,267 active caches.

The cache counts were found in the Wayback Machine's archive of Geocaching.com using the nearest day that was available.  Sometime before 6000th day, the worldwide cache count was removed from Geocaching.com, making it not available to the Wayback Machine, so I interpolated the number.

The cache is located at N 47 ??.??? W 122 ??.???
Solve this little puzzle to get the rest.

5501 2174 648 6389 93 3896 1899 4 4983 5062

Congratulations to DM&K Cachers for the FTF!

I wanted to put a can of beans in the cache but it won't fit.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gur svefg qnl bs trbpnpuvat jnf Znl 3, 2000

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)