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Welcome to the series THROUGH THE TELLESCOPE LENS! I have assorted twenty mystery caches in the Southeast Lake County area of various puzzle difficulties. This series is in memorial of the great 4xkrat who tragically left us recently. We shared three loves: astronomy, puzzles, and caching. In his honor, I have decided to combine the three things he loved into a winter break project.
(To FTF hunters: I give considerable leeway towards early puzzlers. Feel free to ask me any questions if there seems to be errors or confounding stages. There is a lot of snow pileup, and I'm more than willing to approximate how winter friendly a hide if you ask me. I will also be partially available on Saturday to VISIT some of the hides. Good luck!)
Red: A poem
by jamesisoutsidern
Crimson delights
languish in the night,
awaiting for solace,
hoping to call us.
It shines above
the twins forever locked
to the man who pulls the ox.
It is the sign
of our lonely brother,
a world dreamed as another.
Red is
the element of rage,
but to get to the next stage,
the two elements of red
will uncage
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