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OL 6 Cotopaxi Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 4/24/2025
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Welcome to the 2025 Taconic Region NYS Park Summer Geocaching Challenge.  Please see OL 1 for details about the challenge.

“Cotopaxi” (1862) depicts one of the highest volcanos in the Andes Mountains of South America. It is the second highest peak in modern-day Ecuador. This painting can be seen at the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, Michigan. https://dia.org/collection/cotopaxi-37907#:~:text=Frederick Edwin Church: Images of,National Museum of American Art.

You are looking for a large lock-and-lock. 

To find the information needed to access the cache you can work from left to right or right to left - it doesn’t matter. You will need to move what you find one at a time until the information finds its way to you. Once you get the information needed, please put back as found. “Middle” is about 12. Push up to disengage lock.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Nggnpurq gb gerr. Zbir gurz sebz bar fvqr gb gur bgure hagvy gur pyhr sbe npprff (va fznyy ovfba) fubjf vgfrys. Pheerag lrne.

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)