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First to Find Mystery Cache

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Kelsborrow Wayfinders: Went to check and the cache had indeed gone. Time to archive. Congratulations to stavvy on the First To Find.

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Hidden : 5/23/2008
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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WIN A FABULOUS DAY'S CACHING WITH THE KELSBORROW WAYFINDERS AND A CELEBRITY GEOCACHER *

* - Includes only one of the Kelsborrow Wayfinders. Celebrity Geocacher may not in fact be well-known. Expenses not included. Day may include multiple DNF's.

NEVER had a First to Find?
COULDN'T BE BOTHERED to get up at 5am in the morning?
UNABLE to sneak out at lunchtime or early from work?
Technologically INCAPABLE of setting up alerts for new caches?
Or just plain LAZY and INCOMPETENT?

Then this is the cache for YOU.

Here is your chance to get a First to Find and WIN a host of exciting goodies from the Kelsborrow Wayfinders caching bag.

Surely there must be a catch?
What do I have to do to win this exciting prize?

All YOU have to do is find the cache and invent your own First to Find category. For example:

- First to Find on a rainy Tuesday morning in November.
- First to Find while eating a chocolate bar
- First to find with a dog on a red lead

Then print out the Kelsbrrow Wayfinders exclusive First to Find Certificate and fill in your First to Find category in the space provided. You can then either laminate your certificate or frame it, hang it on your living room wall and be the ENVY of all your geocaching friends

But there’s more.

Everyone who finds the cache will AUTOMATICALLY be entered into the Kelsborrow Wayfinders First to Find competition with a chance to be OFFICIALLY awarded the First to Find on this cache as well as a selection of exciting prizes including:

- A day’s caching with one of the Kelsborrow Wayfinders and a special CELEBRITY geocacher
- Three (YES THREE) brand new unused geocoins
- An exclusive Kelsborrow Wayfinders Finger Monster in a colour of your choice *
- A pen
- A bag of crisps in ANY flavour *

* Dependent on availability

It all sounds too good to be true, but you still haven’t told me EXACTLY what I need to do.

COMPETITION RULES

1) Find the cache which is located in the beautiful Cheshire countryside.
2) Empty out any residual water from the bottom of the container and sign the soggy logbook.
3) Marvel at the extensive choice of expensive gifts and select any broken item of your choice.
4 a) Well-prepared option
Take a photograph of yourself with the cache container holding your exclusive Kelsborrow Wayfinders First to Find certificate (which you will have taken with you). Go home. Complete online log. Download photograph with humorous caption. Feel smug because you have done exactly what the Kelsborrow Wayfinders wanted.
b) Forgetful option
Arrive at cache location and realise that you didn’t bring your camera or print off the certificate. Set off for home. Return to cache site to pick up your GPS which you left nearby. Go home. Get member of family to take photograph of you holding the certificate with embarrassed grin on your face because the Kelsborrow Wayfinders knew that you would do this.
c) Couldn’t be bothered option
Go home. Try to remember which of the 30 caches you did today this was. Write brief online note complaining about the undergrowth and finish log with TFTC. Think what a pointless exercise the cache was.

IMPORTANT

You must start your online log with your First to Find Claim to Fame. I reserve the right to delete any logs that don’t abide by this rule although to be perfectly honest I will probably let it go as everyone plays by their own rules. I will just think what a miserable log entry and talk about you behind your back.

COMPETITION WINNER

The competition winner will be the geocacher who, in the opinion of a specially selected panel of North West Geocachers comes up with the best First to Find claim and who truly enters into the spirit of the cache.

CLOSING DATE

The competition will close seven days before the 2009 Cheshire Camping event.

CACHE

A quick note about the cache itself which should be a very straightforward find. From the parking place on Stoney Lane you are walking along an old Roman Road. Look out for the tree with the stone in the crook close to the hiding place. As I was hiding the cache I got into conversation with a dog walker who told me that the locals had been aware of the stone for more than 50 years and apparently it appears in a book about Mysterious Cheshire. Watch out for the nettles in summer and please re-hide the cache carefully so it doesn't look obvious.

Good luck and let your imagination run wild.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Uvqqra nzbatfg gur fnaqfgbar.

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)