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TABA 7 (Bonus): The Lonely Mountain Mystery Cache

Hidden : 8/21/2024
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


About the series:

There and Back Again - A Hobbit's Trail'  is based on The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien. He lived near here for a large part of his childhood, and apparently took inspiration from Moseley Bog and Joy's Wood for some of the places in his books. There are 7 caches in the series, including a bonus cache. They are the first geocaches I have ever placed, and I have received permission from the Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trust to place them. You don't have to do the series in the order they are numbered (this is just the order they happen in the book) though I would recommend doing number 3 before the bonus, as it is the only cache with information for it. It took me 1 hour and 20 minutes to place these caches and test the whereigos, so you should probably allow a bit more time than that for finding and logging the geocaches. 
 

About the cache:

This is the last cache in the series. The coordinates are NOT where the cache is, it is a 3000 year old burnt mound. You can visit it if you want, but it is not related to the series unless you want to pretend that it is Dale. To get the coordinates for it, do the field puzzle contained in 'TABA 3: Rivendell'. This has 14 pieces, and I would not recommend doing it on a windy day, in case they blow away. The cache is a regular sized one (the largest in the series) and contains lots of trade items as well as an FTF gift. I have also placed Smaug the Magnificent (trackable) in the cache so that people can take him on a journey to New Zealand. 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

N pnzbhsyntrq ont qvfthvfrf gur gernfher, pbaprnyrq ol gur onpx jnyy bs bar bs gur ebbzf.

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)