Penguins In The Park Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 7/22/2006
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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The coordinates above are not the cache location but will be a good place to begin.
My daughter, Ms. Penguin, loves penguins and over the years we have learned alot about penguins and collected alot of penguin paraphernalia. We thought we would put a cache together to try to spread some of that penguin knowledge.

The quiz below will help you learn to visually identify 10 of the more obvious penguin species. Just match the names to the numbered pictures. That will give you a numeric value for the letters A thorugh J which you can then use to calculate the final cache corridnates per the equation below. The cache is a camo painted piece of 4" plastic pipe.

The cache is located in a small Essex Junction town park . Parking is on the street at the listed coordinates in front of the park but please don't block the fire hydrant. From there there are a couple routes to the cache. You can either use the trail running along the pond or there are some pseudo trails behind the basketball court. There are some homes in the neighborhood that border the park woods on the NW corner - the cache is located on the downward slope of a hill which will keep you out of view of those houses (i.e. if you start to clearly see a house you are not in the right spot). The tree cover at the cache makes reception difficult but be patient and try a couple orientations. The corrdinates are the result of averaging several trips.

You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

NQRYVR: juvgr pvepyr nebhaq gur rlr. NSEVPNA: fbyvq oynpx srnguref va funcr bs hcfvqr qbja ubefrfubr ba vgf fgbznpu. PUVAFGENC: guva pheirq yvar bs oynpx srnguref ehaavat haqre gur puva. RZCREBE: bcra lryybj rne cngpurf ba fvqr bs urnq naq ybat cbvagrq ornxf jvgu fbzr benatr ba gurz. TRAGBB: Juvgr fgevcr npebff gur gbc bs gur urnq sebz bar rlr gb gur bgure. XVAT: benatr pybfrq-funcr rne cngpu. ZNPNEBAV: lryybj naq oynpx cyhzrf wbvavat ba gur gbc bs gur urnq naq guvpx benatr ornx. ZNTRYYNAVP: oner cvax cngpu bs fxva nebhaq vgf rlr. EBPXUBCCRE: oevtugyl pbyberq srnguref ba gur urnq ybbxvat yvxr rlroebjf naq erq rlrf. LRYYBJRLR: lryybj srnguref tbvat sebz gur ovyy naq pvepyvat gur rlrf naq urnq.

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)


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