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Historic Caches of Ottawa County Challenge Mystery Cache

Hidden : 8/12/2010
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Historic Caches of Ottawa County Challenge

Historic Caches of Ottawa County Challenge: In an effort to build cacher awareness
of the historic caches in Ottawa County, Michigan, this challenge has been issued.

The cache container for this challenge is not located at the given coordinates. In order to claim a find on this challenge, you must find and log five of the seven current oldest existing caches in Ottawa County.

Once the five caches have been found and logged, you may find and log this cache. You may either prove you have met the challenge by using the challenge checker provided and using the easy copy and paste the log it generates for you. Prior finds do count.

The seven current oldest existing caches in Ottawa County are:

GC4D1 The Shores of Michi-gama....Hidden 3/18/01
GC557 Entmoot.........................Hidden 3/25/01
GC2996 Underfoot at the Y.........Hidden 11/23/01
GC34F7 Pigeon View.................Hidden 1/25/02
GC78EC Anchors Away...........Hidden 8/1/02
GC86E3 Taylor's Treasure...........Hidden 8/30/02
GC8B78 Riley's Ski..................Hidden 9/8/02

The cache is hidden in the Upper Macatawa Natural Area. The container is a camouflaged lock-n-lock.


Park hours are March 16 - October 15 7AM to 10PM
October 16 - March15 7AM to 8PM
THE CACHE IS NOT AT POSTED COORDINATES. SEE BELOW FOR ACTUAL LOCATION.


To see other Western Michigan Historic County Challenge Caches, visit the following links:

Kent
Allegan
Muskegon
Ionia
Montcalm
Kalamazoo
Clinton
Eaton
Van Buren
Oceana
Newaygo
Berrian
Barry

You can also check out the  Allenite's Bookmark of all the historical challenges in Michigan.



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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

guvegl srrg Jrfg bs bofreingvba qrpx

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)