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Pirates of the Elbow Treasure Chest - CCARS12 Multi-Cache

This cache has been archived.

Three Stars: With construction in the wrap up process we had a chance to get to our cache for a visit. Unfortunately the first stage container went missing during the construction and at the final location all we found were the green cache sticker (which we took home), 2 wooden boards and a few beads from swag. Based on that we decided to archive this one as we would have to completely redo it anyway. So there might be another one showing up sometime somewhere else, who knows... AHHRrrrr, so long.

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Hidden : 4/7/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:





During the summer of 1713, five notorious pirate captains met along the Elbow River to make an agreement never to attack each other. As a gesture of good faith, each took with them a bag of personal treasure to be hidden along the Elbow River. If any of the five were to be killed, their treasure was to be divided between those who remained.

Each pirate hid his treasure and drew a map, showing the location. There were just five maps, of which each captain had one copy of each. Within two years of the meeting, all five pirates were dead! Either killed in action or taken by the authorities and executed.

There were many rumours about the meeting along the Elbow River, but no one knew the whereabouts of the treasure or who held any of the maps. The story was consigned to myth and legend.

Then in 2012 a rumour started that one map was found. A new device using GPS was used to save its location so it could not be lost again. If you have one of these new devices you are able to locate the hiding spot of the map and then go find the treasure.

Will there be another map found? We will see...

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fgneg: Hfrq gb cebgrpg lbhe fuvc sebz vzcnpg jvgu gur uneobhe jnyy. Svany: Gb tnva npprff gb gur gernfher purfg, lbh jvyy unir gb hfr gur ynfg 3 qvtvgf bs gur pbbeqvangrf bs Jrfg.

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)