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Wissahickon Trails: A Big Piece of Schist Traditional Cache

Hidden : 9/9/2016
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

A quick grab on a seldom used part of the Wissahickon Trail system.

After a short walk from parking will find yourself on a seldom used section of trail in the Wissahickon Creek park area.  You'll be looking for a small sized cache able to hold some small swag or trackables.  The trail head entrance closest to the parking coordinates should be the hardest part of this find.  It’s very steep and made of sandy soil and rocks.  

Please be careful making it up hill to the trail as a slip backwards could be dangerous should you land on Gypsy lane and not just your butt!  Once you’ve sumitted the hill the trail is very smooth and flat, and could damn near qualify as a T1.

 

Original Description
From Lusophile

This cache is to demonstrate to my namby pamby caching friends that Philadelphia is not full of murders, robberies and other crimes.

A small pill bottle along a little used trail in the Wissahickon valley. Just a short walk from parking.

There's no big deal here, a cache just off a seldom used trail. Because of tree cover, coordinates may be a bit off, but the hint should help.

There's a large parking lot at the posted coords. Do not park on Gypsy Lane!! You will get a ticket or be towed. Bring your own pen.!

SPECIAL NOTE: There is no access to parking from, nor access from parking to Southbound Lincoln Drive,

Congratulations to Jonzilla for braving the wilds of the Wissahickon in thedark of night.

 

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Vg'f va gur gvgyr

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)