Aurora At Rest Traditional Geocache
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Coming from Bodie can be a rocky canyon drive where a little vehicle clearance and paying attention is nice. Coming from Hawthorne there is a graded dirt road all the way.
In 1860, gold was found in Esmeralda Gulch and the city of Aurora was born. Aurora is the Roman name for "Eos", goddess of the Dawn, and is derived from the same Latin root as "Aurum", gold.
Before it's fade, more than $30 million in gold and silver was taken and it was home to 20,000 people. When Samuel Clemens first came to Nevada he came here. Having failed at his mining efforts, he moved to Virginia City and created the name Mark Twain. What is left in Aurora is the cemetary. A walk through the stones reveals a life that could be short and hard. It is a nice place to have lunch on the tailgate.
The cache is an ammo can under a small pile of rocks. We left a roadsign game, slinky, wiffle ball, flag pin, a bag of marbles and a bead lizard.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
"V funer n avpr oevpx ubzr jvgu Zef. Znel Ervq, abg sne sebz gur Obevat zna."