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Hidden : 11/15/2018
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

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Fact or Fiction?
        Above the Canal

Fact: The cache is NOT at the posted coords!
Fiction?: Red Herrings are always truthful, never tricky.

RHNN (Red Herring Network News) has lately posted some very interesting and controversial stories about Delaware Geocachers. The snippets below are from some of their "breaking news" stories. With all the Fake News lately, it is up to each and every Geocacher to perform due diligence by fact checking these headlines:

A: IMSpider
1. He ONLY caches on Monday, Wednesday, & Friday.
2. His spider icon has eight legs.
3. He is one of the top ten cache finders in the world.
4. He has no real name.

B: Evanspack
1. Her first name is Evans and her last name is Pack.
2. She is located in Wilmington.
3. She only caches in Delaware.
4. She hides 5 star difficulty puzzles.

C: MikeOtt
1. His real name is NOT Mike Ott.
2. He has never been Geocacher of the Month.
3. He plans to make his 1,000th find in the near future.
4. He sometimes hides caches that require a significant hike.

D: Shorttripp
1. He is located in Wilmington.
2. He has gotten MORE than a few FTFs.
3. He does NOT own any Delaware Geocoins.
4. He got his caching name because he only makes "short trips" to find caches.

E: rflester
1. He is located in Pennsylvania.
2. He never goes caching "below the canal."
3. He only has 500 finds.
4. He has been caching since 1995.

F: Jeffs47
1. He got his caching name because Jeffs 1-46 were already taken.
2. He has never found a cache on Feb. 29th.
3. He hides Red Herring puzzle caches.
4. He has cached in every state on the East Coast.

RHNN is known for tricky, fake news reporting, so you need to determine whether the above headlines are fact or fiction. Take the NUMBER preceding each FACT and in A-F order, enter them in the Certitude checker (no spaces) in order to get the actual cache coords.



This is reho reporting for RHNN. Thanks for tuning in- have fun & good luck! (and that's a FACT).


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