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2012 ABC Alphabet Soup Challenge with a twist Mystery Cache

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4 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

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The 2012 ABC Challenge with a twist at the end is ready for your caching enjoyment.
Ver 4.0 has a wider geographic region which includes five more counties.
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Do you remember when your mother fed you alphabet soup for lunch? My game was attempting to spell my name with the noodles. All these years later I still attempt a spoonful of only my name. I hope you will enjoy this version of Alphabet Soup.

To claim this cache, you need to find and log 28 other caches, one for each letter of the alphabet and a cache with the numerals 1 and 2 within the cache title. All caches must be found in the Central Texas Counties listed below ON or AFTER January 1, 2012. Qualifying caches may only be in the following counties: Travis,Williamson,Burnet,Bastrop,Hays, Llano, Gillespie, Caldwell,Bell,Guadalupe and Lee.
The process you follow to complete this Challenge is listed below:

1. Create a public bookmark called Your name's 2012 Alphabet Soup Challenge: Include this cache in your bookmark since you haven’t found it yet, it doesn’t count – you will need another “A” cache

2. Keep this bookmark public for a minimum of 1 month after completing the challenge.

3. Include one qualifying cache you have found for each letter of the alphabet and numeral.
in the cache bookmark comments, include the date you found the
cache. Caches found/logged before January 1, 2012 will not qualify for this Challenge.
Successfully find and log caches the names of which begin with each letter of the alphabet and the numerals. All caches except locationless qualify.
Examples: The first letter in the title of the cache is the
qualifying letter.
Acquiring Satellites=A
Demise of a Dot Com=D
'20th' Hole= does qualify for this challenge cache as it contains a numberal!
Twentieth Century=T
A look at your alphabetized bookmark list will indicate if you have each letter.

4. The posted coordinates are correct. But do not go there until you have completed the entire alphabet.

5. The numerals contained in the title of the challenge do not count! You must have a 28 alpha and numeric caches to complete the challenge. The final cache in your bookmark should be the 2012 ABC Alphabet Challenge.

6. This cache has been given this particular difficulty ranking because I have no idea which caches you may choose to do for this challenge, it will take some time to complete, and some planning as well.

This year you will have a hike to the final with a bit of bushwhacking along the way. You can figure out your own parking.

There are finder gifts for each who log the final, please take only one per log signature.

I hope you enjoy this twist to our mutual hobby/passion/obsession

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Na hahfhny cvyr bs ebpxf znl uryc lbh fcbg gur svany ybpngvba.

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)