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The ginormous micro Traditional Cache

Hidden : 9/13/2020
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Please cover the cache with its natural camo when replacing it and don't trample on any ferns or vegetation in the area. The cache is easily accessible. Bushwhacking or trampling on vegetation is absolutely unnecessary. This cache is located a few meters off the unpaved trail which connects the urban trail with the Byrne Creek ravine. The container is "ginormous" for its class. To open it, you must only unscrew its bottom portion. If you don't happen to have a pen, please take a picture of the logbook and send it to me. thank you.

History of this ravaine: "Originally known as Woolard's Brook, this waterway once flowed eastward through cow pastures and bog. Interference with its peaceful course began in 1893, when a man named Peter Byrne rechannelled the creek to supply a newly dug ditch running through the bog to the Fraser River—an arrangement that allowed the Gilley brothers and other logging companies to float their timber down the ditch to the river and thence to the sawmills in New Westminster.

In the 1980s the watercourse was redirected yet again to accommodate road alignment, and today Byrne Creek runs through Riverway golf course on its journey to the Fraser. The ravine through which this walk wanders has been protected as part of Ron McLean Park and is part of a larger program of saving neighbourhood ravines from development or use as illegal garbage dumps.

Although close to Skytrain, flanked by residential streets on the west and apartment towers on the northeast, the ravine remains a belt of wilderness that offers some surprising discoveries to nature lovers. Highlights: Forest and creek; Ron McLean Park; shrubs, berries; songbirds. Terrain: Ups and downs. Forest trail, some steps, park path and road. (Source: http://stephansmap.org/byrne_creek_ravine_park_2006.html)"

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Pheirq oenapurf.

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)