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5 Golden Rings (CVGA Cachemas 2025) Mystery Cache

Hidden : 12/17/2025
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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CVGA Cachemas 2025: 5 Golden Rings!

Welcome to the "The 12 Days of Cachemas," a cache series running from December 25 to January 5 modeled after a familiar Christmas song. Starting on December 25th, one new cache in this series will be released each day, until the song is complete. Each cache in this series will contain a clue. Collect all the clues in order to figure out the location of the bonus cache!  To see a list of all the Cachemas caches that's updated by the elves in real time, click here.

Today is Day 5 in our epic journey towards that final bonus cache that's coming out on Day 13. And we all know that wonderful bridge within each and every verse where we draw out the long "Fiiiiiiiiive gooldeen riiiiiiiings!" Comes with annoying joke that by the end of 12 days you've actually bought your true love 40 golden rings. Well, my puzzle isn't that complicated. So read on. 

Head on out to the posted coordinates. Please note, this cache does have the parking fee attribute simply because during the week free parking is really hard to come by within a half mile or so of where I hid this cache, but it's a pretty place and deserves to have a cache. That said, once you finally get to the posted coordinates, you going to find none other than 5 rings! But wait a second....

They aren't golden. 

All you have to do is pick the correct color of the rings from the list below, and there's your coordinates! 

Red: N 37° 32.218 W 077° 26.391

Green: N 37° 32.203 W 077° 26.355

Silver: N 37° 32.203′ W 77° 26.343′

White: N 37° 32.200 W 077° 26.392

 

Congrats Team_N on the FTF, making it work before I realized I needed to tweak my posted coordinates! 

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

ZXU qbja ybj.

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)