Color Code

Title: Summer Colors
Location: encrypted (GCK940)
Owner: MeBuff8Fan
Team Members: Daedalux, nSilico
Status: Not Found, #3 of 3

Despite the clumsy clues and unannounced knowledge requirements for this cache, we're confident we figured out how to correctly decrypt the coordinates for this cache.

Decryption Spolier
The clues required a bit of HTML computer knowledge to decipher. The code given is: 262C1A*4D1D30 which is hex code for two 'colors' which can be converted into RGB values - Red, Blue, Green. Using a converter to get the RGB values for the codes you get R38 G44 B26 * R77 G29 B48. And the clues in the really bad poem by MeBuff8Fan reveal the that red is degrees, green is minutes, and blue is seconds. So the coordinates are N38°44'26"xW77°29'48". Again you can use another converter, like the one at jeEep.com if you need to change degrees and seconds to decimial for your GPS.

These coordinates are for a nearby park. It would be an unusual coincidence to accidentially decrypt corridinates in the same hemisphere let alone a nearby park so we're reasonably confident we did it correctly.

Unfortunately we never found the cache itself. The coordinates took us to a heavily wooded area and there was no shortage of potential hiding spots. After about 30 minutes of fruitless searching we finally decided to call it a day. It was probably right under out noses but we didn't see it. Maybe we'll try again later.

Mysterious Multicache Revisited

Title: Alias
Location: Secret per owner's request (GCBDE8)
Owner: Gaiterman
Team Members: Daedalux, nSilico
Status: Found, TNLNSL, #2 of 3

This was our second attempt at this cache, and thankfully this time it was an easy find. Pictured below is the tree that gave us so much trouble the last time. We were convinced it had to be there. We were wrong. (Read about our first attempt)


Not here

Instead it was all the way over here - Spoiler. There was no way we would have been able to see it with all the snow during our last visit, so at least I don't feel so bad.


here

Unfortunately the cache is only accessable via this rotting log. Like other caches we've seen - this one won't last too much longer before it becomes completely inaccessable.


rotten

Winter Wildnerness

Title: Start of Winter
Location: N 38° 44.675 W 077° 29.249 (GCHQMD)
Owner: lidar0101
Team Members: Daedalux, nSilico
Status: Found, TNLNSL, #2 of 3


The trail

Located near the beginning of Winters Branch Trail, this cache was easy to find despite the overgrowth.


wild woods

Inside the cache was a horrid Travel Bug that was by far the most fearsome thing we have ever encountered in our breif career as intrepid geogachers.


'Apple Annie' says "Kill meee ... please!"

Obviously the failed result of overly ambitious genetic expirmentation, this cross between a rhesus monkey and a rotten tomato was both pityable and revolting. We simply put her back in her jar of ambiotic fluid and left.