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Track the Dragon - Glaciers Traditional Cache

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Nana Bear: The track is gone and sadly the cache is also gone.
I will post locations of the actual tracks onto a Track the dragon page.

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Hidden : 2/21/2005
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

A puzzle with a purpose, this game, Tracking the Dragon, was conceived by Wild Olympic Salmon as a way for people to learn about water.

There are 12 bronze dragon tracks, which represent a phase of the hydrologic cycle: sedimentary rock, glaciers, clouds, rain, streams, freshwater wetlands, rivers, soil water, groundwater, estuaries, Puget Sound, Hood Canal, and the sea.

Dragon tracks are bronze, about two feet long, and you can make rubbings of them with thin paper and crayon. And so we are attempting to locate the 12 tracks ( actually some are missing, but we are finding the locations where they were so that we can continue the story).

Join us on our adventure. Today we hiked into mountains, and along seashores, sometimes finding them, sometimes not....why didn't they use a GPS and get coordinates???

This is Track Two- and actually the track is missing. But the identifying mark is there; and the lesson is about glaciers. Read a little of the clue for this track

"This is a story of the Eldest of Waters, who had itchy feet and wanted to wander. Wherever she trod the land caved in, and when she passed mountains rebounded behind her. She feared a wander yonder might leave her lost, so she scooped up a basket of granite boulders and dropped them behind her- (an old-time Hansel and Gretel). Weary and worn she sleeps now in the Olympic Mountains, and these boulders await her waking.

Such a boulder squats the beach, footing a bluff, marking her trail home. Stand atop it at night, looking north on the straits, and hear the family of Waters call her in its slow, ancient way."

Ok- that's paraphrased; the cache is at the coordinates given, but if you walk along the beach eastward you'll come to an erratic boulder with a smooth side where a dragon track once was. No track, but you'll get the idea!
Container is a film canister.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

gerr, 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)