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TA@10K #8000: Return to Purgatory Traditional Cache

Hidden : 9/19/2005
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Part of a ten-cache series to honor TeamAlamo's achievement of hitting 10,000 caches found and becoming the top male geocacher of all time. Visit all ten to find the coordinates for the final tribute cache!


The Series:

There are ten caches in this series. Each cache contains one-tenth of a $10,000 bill with a number on it. When you visit each cache, note the location of the bill segment and the number on the bill. Use these ten numbers to find the final cache!

A bit of history - Team Alamo's 8000th cache:

Lee logged his 8000th cache at GeoWoodstock III, specifically the cache was The Number Ho Celebration Dinner, an event that was part of GeoWoodstock. He still reminisces about the day in Daytona when he found 91 caches by himself...

This cache:

Anyway, GeoWoodstock is about the numbers, but anyone who has been out with TeamAlamo knows that Lee doesn't cache just for numbers. He caches for the hikes too. Many of my difficult terrain hikes have been done with TeamAlamo almost pulling me up some steep hill somewhere, and no steep hills have been more memorable than the ones in what Lee himself told me was his favorite park - Las Trampas Regional Wilderness, and no cache in Las Trampas has been more memorable than Purgatory.

Purgatory was an attempt to coerce other GeoCachers to make a particularly onerous trek to Devil's Hole. The cache led a short and controversial life and was archived after only a few months. It's too bad, really, because I know how much everyone enjoyed making the trip.

So then what better tribute could we offer to Lee but one more opportunity to visit Purgatory?


Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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)