Not all who wander... Mystery Cache
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As part of our hobby we sometimes find ourselves wandering. Or at least we appear to a non-cacher to wander. We wander along trails, through streams and across meadows. Sometimes we do the drunken bumblebee dance and other times we are so focused on the arrow we force our way through brush, briars, and brambles when a circuitous route would have been more prudent. I must confess that I have wandered in each and every way mentioned above. Especially the thorn part. Thanks bitbrain.
I find that I tend to do a bit of wandering even when I am sitting home comfortably on my couch. I know, I know, a lot of people tend to do that. You know, sitting comfortably letting hours slip by while visiting one site after another. I tend to be a bit different though. No suprise, huh? I end up spending lots and lots of time at geocaching.com wandering through profiles and cache listings. Sometimes I go to certain area of the country, or world, and look at mystery/puzzle caches. Other times I follow a cacher, or two, through their travels. During a recent ramble through geocaching.com I found a couple of caches that I found to be very interesting and wanted to share them with you.
The first cache is Better Than Boredom (GC33E1). It is located in Ontario, Canada along the Maitland river. The cache is a nice simple traditional ammo can. It's along a walking trail and has easy terrain. Heck, it's rated a 1.5. The hide is an easy find as it is only rated a 1. The eighty-one finds versus five dnf's bear out the easy rating. If you get a chance click on over to the cache page and browse through some of the pictures. It looks like a really cool place. The good news is the cache is 9985 kilometers from boredom. The bad news is that it is 746.8 miles from my house. As the crow flies, of course. I looked it up on google maps just to see how long a drive it would be. I've found that the directions function of google maps tends to be fairly accurate timewise when planning a trip. Anyway, if I were to have the opportunity to visit this cache it would entail a fourteen hour and eleven minute drive and be about 890 miles of driving. It would prove interesting as I would be heading through such hotbeds of caching like Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati, Toledo, and Detroit. Bet I would get to see some nice neighborhoods along the way too.
The second cache is a bit further away. It is Hard-working Giants (GCCD8E) and is located near Niedersachsen, Germany. The cache was hidden by a cacher named cosmic bob on February 1, 2003. So far it has had 175 finders and only two dnf's. It would appear that it's difficulty rating of 1.5 would be accurate. Overall it looks like a very cool place to visit as when you are hunting the cache you get to see some megalithic tombs from the Neolithic period. Neat! Unfortunately, but not unexpectedly, most all of the log entries are in German. Cosmic Bob though, was nice enough to make his cache page in both German and English. As cool as this cache looks it may be a while, if ever, before I get to hunt it as it is 4707.6 miles as the crow flies.
Sometimes once I have found such interesting gems I look back to figure out the path I took as I wandered the geoweb. Take Better Than Boredom for example. When I retraced my steps what I had done is look back at a cache I found in Chattanooga named The Most Amazing Mile. Back on July 11th of 2005 a cacher named res2100 found this cache. A mere ten days earlier he posted a note for Better Than Boredom. As for Hard-Working Giants the path is much easier. GeoPirat, whom I met at Sprouts house on May 20th 2007 for the Deltageo Meet and Greet found Hard-Working Giants more than two years before on February 20, 2005.
Anyway, I suppose I've rambled on enough about my virtual wanderings and should take a moment to tell you about this cache. First, and this should be obvious, the cache is not at the specified coordinates. Second it is a camoflouged lock and lock. Well, I guess that is enough. Good luck and happy hunting.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
[puzzle] Jul qb gurl pnyy gurz TP ahzoref?