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Tararua Tramping & Bagging Huts (Manawhenua) Mystery Cache

Hidden : 8/23/2020
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


The Scots have Munro Bagging, where the challenge is to conquer Scotland's Munros - a list of Scottish mountains over 3,000 ft (914.4 m), named after Sir Hugh Munro, who surveyed and catalogued them in 1891.There are in total 282 Munros across Scotland, with Ben Nevis at 4,411 ft (1,345 m) is the highest.

For what it's worth we have seventeen in New Zealand in the altitude range 3,000 ft to 4,411 ft (and 171 over 4,411 ft / 1,345m - up to Aoraki/Mount Cook's 3,724m).

But I digress...

Here in New Zealand we have a version of munro bagging called "Hut Bagging" where the objective is to visit as many Wilderness country huts as possible. The rules are simple, you just need to have visited a hut to have "bagged it". Each unique hut visited is another hut bagged.

There are I believe 48 huts and bivys in the Tararua range. You should visit some of them (but you don't have to to find this cache.)

The cache can be found at S40° 2A.BCD E175° 2W.XYZ where...

A = Otaki Forks to Parawai Lodge
B = South Ohau Hut to Roaring Stag Lodge
C = Poads Road to Tarn Ridge Hut
D = Waitewaewae Hut to Totara Flats Hut

W = Te Matawai Hut to South Ohau Hut 
X = Kime Hut to Powell Hut
Y = Head out from Jumbo Hut but return due to bad weather
Z = Mid Wiohine Hut to Dorset Ridge Hut

There's some significant tramps there, and you'll need to climb to the top of a munro to log the cache. But I haven't made it too hard.
Can't have you go bust a gut!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fhvgnoyl pnzbrq Orebppn ghor

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)