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Escletxes marines Traditional Cache

Hidden : 4/3/2005
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
4 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Es troba amagat a 10 metres de la superfície. Perill! Aneu amb compte! No baixeu escalant des del punt de coordenades, el desafiament d'aquest geocache es arribar a l'indret des d'un punt d'accés no perillós.


Warning! The cache is hidden at the bottom of a 10 meters high crack, you must not descend from the waypoint so you will amuse yourself finding a secure, but rather hard, approach to the geocache.

"Les Escletxes del Papiol" are a unique place of maritime facies of coral and seaweeds fossils around Barcelona area. These rock formations includes many accessible cracks, your task is find the best way to find your treasure.

The facies are in Papiol, where you can:

  • Use public transport arriving to Papiol train station of RENFE and then take a 1,7 Km hike to the "Les Escletxes".
  • Parking at 41º26.251'N 2º01.126'E.

Once you are there go to the top of the Escletxes to know the horizotal location of the geocache and then find a secure approach for arriving down there, if you have a partner he will be able to give you indications from the top of the "Escletxes" because you can't get enough sat's signals for you GPSR down there.

If it's not a sunny day or the Sun is rising you will need a small flashligh only at the end of the route (geocache place).

I know three secure but rather hard entries:

  • Entry A: First of all, you have to drag through a hole in the rocks.
  • Entry B: It's the shortest way to reach the cache, but you have to pass trough a very narrow crack between walls of rocks on the right (Actually I needed to be on a simple diet without french fries during 11 days with the aim of pass trough there successfully ;)).
  • Entry C: I'ts very easy but is the largest way so you can disorientate easily.

Be careful and have fun!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

n naq o ner ng gjragl avar naq guvegl svir zrgref abegu. p vf ng guvegl frira zrgref naq fvk qrterrf. whzc bire gur fghpx ebpx naq svaq gur pnpur va gur qnexarff.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)