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The Man With the Golden Gun Traditional Cache

Hidden : 7/30/2023
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


The Ian Fleming's James Bond series of geocaches honors the amazing original books (not the movies).  It is placed along a section of General Crook trail originating from the Rim Trailhead.  Most are small geocaches, but caches named after my favorite books have a clue in them for James Bond Letterbox. Designed for biking, this powertrail is spaced .25-.5 miles between geocaches (because 0.1 mile spacing on a bike is very tedious).

The Man with the Golden Fun is Bond's twelth and final book in the series. It was written as a first draft, but Fleming died of a heart attack before adding the additional detail that Bond novels normally contain.  It was published after his death.  It starts with a brainwashed and amnestic James Bond unsuccessfully trying to kill M, or "Admiral Sir Miles Messervy KCMG."   The subsequent plot proceeds as follows:

Now de-programmed, Bond is given a chance to again prove his worth as a member of the 00 section following the assassination attempt. M sends Bond to Jamaica and gives him the seemingly impossible mission of killing Francisco "Pistols" Scaramanga, a Cuban assassin who is believed to have killed several British secret agents. Scaramanga is known as "The Man with the Golden Gun" because his weapon of choice is a gold-plated Colt .45 revolver, which fires silver-jacketed solid-gold bullets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_with_the_Golden_Gun_(novel)#External_links

While the basic story remains interetsting, it lack the polish of previous novels.  

This is the trickiest of the James Bond Geocaches to find.  If you cross the elk fence, you are definately in the wrong place.  

Yes, I am aware that the logbook says Moonraker: the original plans for this cache series were not permitted by SPECTRE so had to make some changes.  

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gjb benatr onef, jurer angheny jbbq zrrg cebprffrq. QBA'G TB BIRE GUR SRAPR!

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)