Missoula Treasure Multi-Cache
Raynebeau: I'm so sorry to have to archive this cache...it was exciting for me to put it out and I think most people really enjoyed it. But it is now missing a few major components and the one semi-easy [:o] access is officially posted. Although one could get a boat and make the last leg that was never my intention. If the county ever gains land access to the area I might consider replacing it. I guess I'll have to get "Book of Secrets" out soon.
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This cache is NOT at the coordinates above.
The areas you will find the steps in are just a few of many "Missoula Treasures". The coords tags for the most part are removable so you may go somewhere else to write them down.Please put them back as you found them. Many of the areas are populated so be discrete. You'll need to carry a print out of the spoilers . Although most of the areas are very Kid friendly the final cache are may prove a bit much...hence the rating.
Recently, while walking Bongo along one of Missoula’s many trails, I was approached by a stranger.
“ Is this Bongo?” he asked.
“Yep!” I responded, quite used to the question because Bongo’s photo graces my geocaching.com profile page.
“Then, Raynebeau,” he said, “I have something that should interest you.” And with a cryptic look he handed me a small notebook.
Hesitantly at first and then with growing excitement, I flipped through its pages.
“Wow! These look like clues to a geocache!” and I looked up to notice the stranger had vanished.
I took the notebook home to study it. There wasn’t much to it, sets of numbers that looked like coordinates which could be entered into a GPS,some notes and four pages that seemed to be written in some sort of cryptic numerical code.
“Strange,” I thought, as each of these pages seemed to relate to a certain set of coordinates,“Where have I seen codes like these before?”
I went out to the livingroom where my roomates’ daughter, Sam,(an occasional geocaching companion), was watching “National Treasure”, one of my favorite movies.
I sat down to escape into the adventure of the film. The characters were spreading out the Declaration of Independence to see if the clues did exist on the back of it when it dawned on me...
“It’s an Ottendorf Cypher!” I cried. Sam looked at me as if I were crazy but I was really too excited to care. I grabbed the notebook and looked at the pages with the strange number combinations. Except for the first page, each page had a coordinate at the top, which, I guessed, would lead me to where I could figure out the code on that page.
“But where are the cordinates for this first page?” I wondered, and I looked at the notebook and the other coordinates again. There were several hints throughout,
directions to figuring out the codes(now that I knew what they were), ominous warnings, and, on the last page, this final missive:
“The secret begins with Charlott.”
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VISIT THE GALLERY FOR THE CYPHER NOTE PHOTOS you'll need them!!!
If you don't know where the place is ask a local (especially a child) or look in the phonebook under parks.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
(1.) Pna Ny pbire guvf nern?
(2-5.) V jnyx gur fvtaf
(6.) cnvagrq sybjre cvpxrg
(7.) Jbeyq Geniryref' CBJRE
(8.) Ubfcvprngnoyr gerr
(9.) Gur onfr bs vyyhzvangvba
(10.)FUBEG qevir gb n crevybhf wbhearl, gura gvcgbr gueh gur oehfu.