The hills are alive with the sound of music Mystery Cache
The hills are alive with the sound of music
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The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates.
What you will find at the given location is a box containing information and instructions for solving a music related puzzle. Solve this puzzle to determine where the cache is hidden. Please bring a notebook and pen. And be sure to dress appropriately; you are very likely to meet Stefanie Joanne Angelina Germanotta here! A map of the area would be helpful, though not essential.
Have a seat and listen to the music: water, leaves, birds and forest creatures, and the sound of the mountain itself. You might be sitting here a while ... in fact, don't rush off to your final location without giving it some thought ...
The Cruagh Geocaching trail
I have placed seven geocaches along this route: 4 Traditional hides, 2 Unknown caches (one to be solved at home, the other to be solved at the location), and an enigmatic and difficult Multi Stage cache. Although the walk can be completed in either direction, I would suggest an anticlockwise approach for geocachers planning to search for all seven hides. Turning right at the fork will, initially, appear to be taking you further away from the caches, (if you watch your GPSr), but the path doubles back before long and your GPS will be happy again.
A 100% successful campaign would ideally see the order of events as:
GC47Q64 Have you got the right tine?
GC47Q6J The hills are alive with the sound of music [Puzzle box]
GC47Q6Y Cruagh Cryptek [Stage I]
GC47Q6Y Cruagh Cryptek [Final]
GC47Q7D I lúib na Ccoille Craobhaí
GC47Q7V Half a Click
GC47Q8B Little Dodder
GC47Q90 The day the music died
GC47Q6J The hills are alive with the sound of music [Final]
Good luck!
The area is managed and maintained by Coillte and the cache is placed in line with the “Leave No Trace” principle.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
[stage one]purfg yriry, be tebhaq yriry
[puzzle]Lbh'yy arrq Whyvr Naqerjf ohg abg Qvpxvr Ebpx, be Zhqql Jngref
[final]urnil ebpx