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CASC 2025 - The Great Gatsby Letterbox Hybrid

Hidden : 12/14/2024
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


The cache is not at the above coordinates! This is an offset cache and directions are below. 

Cache Across Southern California 2025

 

Greetings film critics! Are you ready to explore Hollywood through the ages? Find and locate one of the roughly 40 CASC geocaches across all 10 Southern California counties. As you find geocaches, you may stamp your passport to track your progress and turn it in at the SoCal Spring Fling mega event on May 3rd, 2025 to redeem your film critic award. 

How do I use the CASC Passport?

Use the stamp in each CASC geocache and stamp any of the 15 small movie tickets on the front page of the passport. At the bottom of each ticket, write the GC code of the geocache that corresponds to the stamp provided. Then on the reverse side, circle or highlight the caches you found from the list. Doing these steps will increase efficiency and decrease wait times at the CASC table at Spring Fling.

CASC Prize Redemption

To qualify for prize redemption at SoCal Spring Fling 2025, there are two award packages being offered: Silver and Gold. For the SILVER award you must find at least 6 CASC geocaches in 3 counties. To qualify for the GOLD award you must find at least 15 CASC geocaches in all 10 counties. Silver award includes a CASC 2025 completion e-badge for your geocaching profile, CASC sticker, and a small mystery prize. Gold award includes a complimentary special edition CASC 2025 geocoin + the silver award prizes. Only one prize package per qualifying account. Prize distribution will be on a first come first served basis.

Sharing your progress

Feel free to share and post your progress with others on the official CASC Facebook group. Important announcements leading up to Spring Fling will be periodically added here as well.

How do I sponsor a CASC Geocache?

Interested in becoming a CASC sponsor for next year? Join the official CASC Facebook group and watch for an interest post sometime in the Fall.


The Great Gatsby

Midwest natiive Nick Carraway (Toby Maguire) arrives in 1922 New York in search of the American dream.  Nick, a would be writer, moves in next-door to millionaire Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) across the bay from his cousin Daisy (Carey Mulligan) and her philandering husband, Tom (Joel Edgerton). Thus, Nick becomes drawn into the captivating world of the wealthy and -- as he bears witness to their illusions and deciets -- pens a tale of impossible love, dreams and tragedy.

The movie is based on the 1925 novel The Great Gatsby by American writer F. Scott Fitsgerald.  Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.  Playing in theaters on May 1, 2013.

This cache was hidden in preparation for SoCal Spring Fling

This cache is an offset Letterbox cache. Here are the directions: at the posted coordinates you will find a Free LIttle Library - feel free to take or leave a book.  There are no hidden coordinates here.  From this location walk up Wheat St and turn to the left.  You will find another Free Little Llibrary.  The geocache is hidden nearby, not in the library but feel free to trade books there also. 

Please be careful and Do Not unwrap the cache container - it unscrews from the bottom only.  There is room to trade trinkets and small trackables. The letterbox stamp is a small X and it is glued to the outside of a bison that also holds the log.  There are multiple stamps with pads in the container as well.  Please return the log to the bison and put everything back into the outer container for the next player to find. 

Thank you - Enjoy and Be Safe!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

cip cvcr oruvaq yvggyr yvoenel - gbc pnc pbzrf bss bs cvcr - hafperj pnpur pbagnvare sebz gur obggbz bayl, qb abg hajenc

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)