A False Sense of Security Mystery Cache
SwordScienceSorcery: Sorry if you missed this crusher, but time to rethink this one.
A False Sense of Security
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This mystery cache consists of three waypoints and a final that is large enough to fit travel bugs of the smaller variety. All parts of the cache are within easy walking distance of the posted coordinates, which happens to be a good place to park. Aren’t we nice?
There is no cache at the posted coordinates so don’t waste your time looking there, unless that is where you think the first waypoint is, which it is not.
There happen to be those geocachers in the area who through the extreme number of caches they have completed, have developed an overconfidence, a sense of security of their ability to find and log the most difficult of caches. They leave logs along the lines of how they “just walked up and found this one in the first place they looked”, or how it “only took them five minutes,” where everyone else had spent hours looking. They have the more expensive GPS units so even poor coverage cannot stop them. I’ve heard there is even a cacher out there who has a Trimble Pro XRS with differential correction with an accuracy of better than 50 centimeters. Don’t those cost around ten grand? They’ve logged all the difficult caches in the area and learned all the common evil ways to hide a cache. To them, a film canister is much too big to really be a micro. They puff up their ego and say, “Bring it on!” to the likes of FOF, the Evil Dr., many others, and possibly now even ourself. They see the likes of T289D531F and know how to use it to find the third leg of the multicache. They appear to be nice, in that they occasionally give hints to other cachers, but deny the cache owner multiple DNF’s which would reflect the true difficulty of their caches.
This cache is meant to tickle the interest of the above mentioned cachers. They will laugh with the ease at which they solve our puzzle. They will be flying through the waypoints when we bring down the sledgehammer on their ego, their false sense of security in their caching ability. Painfully, they may overcome in the end but at least we will have injured their pride. If not, we will eventually sit at the top of their filtered list to mock them and their false overconfidence. Run, run with your tail between your legs!
Well, this is a puzzle cache so we suppose some instruction on solving the puzzle should be given. Count on it, everything you need is right here in the description. Take our words for it, split it in a non odd way to get the correct north and west decimal parts of the minutes.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Lbhe fbyhgvba gb jnlcbvag 1 fubhyq ynaq lbh va gur urneg bs Erqzbaq Gbja Pragre.
JC2: Vafcverq ol TPU2TK, abg va gur ubyyl.
JC3: Uvqqra va cynva fvtug. Ab arrq gb genzcyr gur irtrgngvba naq ybbx jvgu lbhe rlrf, abg lbhe svatref.
Treasures
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