The Scalp Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Cuilcagh: The cache owner is not responding to issues with this geocache, so I must regretfully archive it.

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Cuilcagh - Community Volunteer Reviewer for Geocaching HQ (Ireland)

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Hidden : 7/16/2006
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Traditional 'Cache with a View' on the border between Dublin and Wicklow.

It is recommended to park at the provided coordinates and approach the cache from there.

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Parking
N 53° 13.240’ W 006° 10.255’
(the car park is closed over night)

It is NOT recommended to approach the cache site from the West (although there are tracks leading up to it).

(As always in the Dublin/Wicklow Mountains area, don't leave any valuables lie open in the car and open the glove compartment to show that it's empty)

The Scalp in 'days of yore'.


"The Scalp is a deep gash in the hills of County Dublin through which the R117 Dublin – Enniskerry road goes. There is only a miserable little stream in it now, obviously quite incapable of having carved its way 100 m down through solid granite. It is in fact a glacial overflow channel , cut at the end of the last Ice Age when the the melting ice created a great lake of melt water trapped between the ice in the north and the Dublin Mountains. Eventually the water rose high enough to top the ridge and the power of the huge volume of escaping water cut out the Scalp as we know it."

(from Joss Lynam, 'Easy Walks near Dublin', Gill & Macmillan 1999)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

haqre ebpx naq arne qrnq cvar gerr

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)


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