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Team Melver Finds 5000 caches! Mystery Cache

Hidden : 6/4/2021
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


The cache is not at the posted coordinates, but it would be a good place to park. This is a puzzle cache. To get the correct coordinates, you must answer a question about the honorees, Team Melver.

On July 20, 2015, Team Melver began a new chapter in their lives when they became geocachers! It began as they curiously watched someone search for and find a light pole (skirt lifter) cache. They've been hooked ever since!

To this date, they have placed over 130 caches. This includes lots of fun events at Pizza Ranch, a geocaching 101 event, and some events at the Wetlands Driftless Center. At some of those events, participants made milkweed seed balls for RAGBRAII bikers to toss into ditches to increase the amount of milkweed plants available for the Monarch butterfly. Monarch caterpillars only eat milkweed and the plant provides all the nourishment the monarch needs to transform from the caterpillar into the adult butterfly. They also raise and release Monarchs throughout the summer and fall.

Team Melver also has some fun gadget caches, puzzles, multis, earthcaches, an AR cache, traditionals, and even a sweet kitty geoart series called "Here Kittty Kitty". Team Melver has a passion for nature and geocoins. They are a great and enjoyable asset to the geocaching community!

Team Melver strives to make their milestone caches memorable ones. For their 5000th cache, they traveled to Kansas to log and attend the MegaEvent MINGO MADNESS! -GC88V6V-, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the creation of geocaching. One of their favorite memories of the event was getting to meet and share geocoins with Moun10Bike (Jon Stanley), who is considered the father of the geocoin. Jon created and placed the very first geocoin for his 100th cache milestone.

To receive the correct coordinates, enter the complete GC code for Team Melver's 4000th milestone cache. On a trip to Germany to visit family, they were able to log this cache. Here is a hint: that cache had the most favorite points of any geocache in the world (almost 12,000 favorite points) before being archived on October 21, 2021, due to vandalism!


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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ybbx sbe n uvag va Pregvghqr.

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)