The description below is the original one from when the cache
was a puzzle cache. No doubt that it was hard to solve since only 4
groups managed the feat during 6 months that it was a puzzle cache.
Congratulations to SKeillan (Kelly), Joypa, Car54, and Ubear &
Stinky. They have the brains. We bow down to you!
A mystery cache in honor of my geocaching buddy
Kelly, a.k.a., S Keillan.
Kelly and I have been caching together since March of 2003. Once
he found that I was interested in Geocaching (I had found my first
cache without the aid of GPS unit) he bought a new GPS and sold me
his old unit (a Garmin Venture) for 1/2 price. We found our first
50 or so caches together.
One thing you should know about Kelly is that he is extremely
smart. He has post-graduate university training as a
physical chemist -- that by itself says that his grey matter
is pretty tightly packed into the ol' skull. He can talk
on a variety of topics from computers to ... well, almost
anything. He also loves puzzles and games. And not just simply
games like 'Euchre' nor in-depth analysis games like Chess but also
brain stretching games with many complex interacting rules.
Puzzles within puzzles thrill him.
Recently Kelly, Paul (another one of my geo-buddies) and I went
caching near Indy. Instead of hitting a bunch of easy caches we
concentrated on puzzle caches. Kelly was in 7th heaven. In fact
during the hunt for one cache (
A Vintage Baudot) he was so excited that as we were solving the
puzzle during lunch at Cracker Barrel he simply stopped
eating and let his food go cold. Highly unusual!
So I have decided to make a puzzle cache for Kelly ... and the
rest of you.
Another thing to know about Kelly is that he is very stubborn
and to the point. When we are out on the trail if the GPS is
pointing towards the East then -- bam! -- off goes Kelly straight
east ... up and down slopes, through brush & trees and over
ravines. I prefer to follow the path, reverse myself if
needed, and look at all sides of how to get to the cache. In my
humble opinion Kelly should do the same.
When we go out caching together Kelly regales me with stories
and ideas. He has a large range of interests including, not
surprisingly, languages and codes. He has developed a system of
writing, a language (incomplete but at least coherent), and much
else. I am never bored while we are together. Confused perhaps but
not bored. I rarely follow everything he says but some of does rub
off. So in honor of Kelly I am using a 5 letter-per-block code to
encypt the real co-ordinates. The code is best written in script
however this would require a graphic to be inserted into this cache
description page which may make decoding it "on the road" hard to
do. Fortunately the code can also be transcribed without much loss
of detail into block letters as follows:
NIBSN SDPBS IEGEX ABDCE GRFEN LAALI ETDPE XNSEG
DCETT P
As I mentioned it is via game playing that I first met Kelly.
Now that we both are geocachers he is the bridge
and the ground between two of my favorite hobbies.
The final thing that you should know about Kelly is that he is
extremely competitive. This should be obvious to local cachers who
see many "found at 11:00 PM on the day it was hidden" FtF notes
from Kelly. I know that it would have made
Kelly green (his favorite color)
with envy if someone had solved this cache before he did.
However, as you can read from the logs below, Kelly spent a
lot of time solving the puzzle and became the FtF.
Congratulations to Kelly!
First finder's prize: To start off the cache there are a
gold (not real, unfortunately, since a cache pirate might rob it),
silver, copper, and aluminum coins of some small value. Take one of
these as the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th finder's prize. The cache is
small in size and thus there is not much space for trade items.
All of the hints need to solve the puzzle are contained in the
description of Kelly given above: who he is, what he loves, what
thrills him and even what he should be. The first couple of tidbits
about Kelly that are given before the co-ordinates will help you to
solve the co-ordinates while the last couple should help you find
the cache itself. This should be easy to find once you have the
coordinates. There is no need to go to the starting co-ordinates.
They are the location of where Kelly "works"; i.e. the place that
pays him while he solves geocaching puzzles. :-)
The checksum of the coordinates is 58.