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Fairfield Hills Series - Quattro Traditional Geocache

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Giriando: The Fairfield Hills series is not holding up and will be replaced with a new one. I hope you all enjoyed it. There will a new series available very soon.

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Hidden : 11/15/2009
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Welcome to the Fairfield Hills Series!

This is a series of seven caches all of the property of Fairfield Hills, Newtown, CT which are all within walking distance of each other. Note: Many Building/Structures are not open to the public, please be careful to not trespass.


This is the 4th (Quattro) of 6 traditional caches in the Giriando series. This cache is well off the paved trail and you will have go over the large field. This is BEST approached via Cache Due or Tre (Avoid the fenced off water area). The series can be done in any order.

The final cache (7th-sette) is a puzzle cache. In order to find it, you will need to find six code words AND their corresponding code numbers (not the series number). Each of the 6 caches in the series will give you exactly 1 code word and a single digit code number. Look under the lid.

Please read the cache page for Sette (7) so you understand what you are looking for: Fairfield Hills Series - Sette (7) (GC210ET)
Enjoy the series.

You will find a magnetic toy in each cache, please do not remove from the cache.

Congratulations to Alphadog for FTF!

Fairfield Hills Fact: The hospital opened and received its first patients from Connecticut Valley Hospital in June 1931. There were initially less than 500 patients, and only 3 doctors. By the late 1960s Fairfield Hills housed more than 4,000 patients, 20 doctors, 50 nurses, and 100 assorted other employees.

For more information, see: Newtown Bee

Newtown Fairfield Hills Guidelines


Additional Hints (Decrypt)

4 - 1 = ? naq sbbg bss tebhaq

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)