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City of Adams Pictorial (Adams/RR Centennial) Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

sandlanders: Even more changes in some of the pictured locations now. Too much work to keep this up to date, so we're finally letting it go.

Thanks to all who visited and explored the City of Adams while working on this cache.

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Hidden : 7/1/2012
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This is one of several caches put out in 2012 to commemorate the centennial of the railroad coming to Adams County and the birth of Adams. Click on "Adams and the Railroad Centennial Caches" in the gallery on this cache page for more information. There may be additional photos in the gallery for some caches. The caches in this series are listed in a bookmark to the right.

For this particular cache, you are looking for a small green bison tube at the final location. (Please place the container back securely.) Print out the photo images and the list of questions to answer, and bring them with you on your walk. They will most likely not show up on your receiver.

The cache container is NOT at the given coordinates!

The premise of this cache is the same as one (now archived) by geolivestrong that we enjoyed doing in Wautoma called "What Are You Looking At?" We have come up with one for cachers to do in the city of Adams while they are visiting the area. Take a walk along Main Street (Highway 13) in town and try to spot where the fifteen photos below were taken. At each place, answer the corresponding question in the list below the photos, and use that number in the correct spot to find the coordinates of the cache container.

You can park in any legal location downtown, but parking close to the given coordinates of this puzzle cache will help you get an idea of the range of the fifteen photo locations. You will NOT have to go north of the given coordinates (Hazel Street), and you will NOT have to go farther south than about a quarter of a mile away (June Street). Some of the photo spots are more easily noticed close up while others are easier to see from across the street. All are on Main Street.

We have given this puzzle cache a T1 rating because all parts of it are wheelchair accessible on flat surfaces. However, you will be walking about a half a mile to get all the information and the final, so keep this distance in mind when looking at the T1 rating.


The cache container can be found at
North AB˚CD.EFG West HIJ˚KL.MNO



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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Hfr gur ahzore "bar" sbe S. Gur pnpur vf nobhg 200 srrg gb gur rnfg bs lbhe svany fbyhgvba.

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)