Scanlon Creek Passport Office
A
cache
by The Mighty Canadian Juicepig
Hidden:
3/30/2006
Size:
 (Small)
Difficulty: 
Terrain:
(1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)
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In scanlon creek there are two passport offices; multi-staged
mailbox hybrids that will direct you to the starting
coordinates!
Welcome to the Scanlon Creek Passport Office! Throughout the park
are various hole punch plaques, and it is your job to find them and
decipher them. Only after you have done that will you be able to go
after the cache! Remember to bring some paper so that you have
something to punch holes in!
A - N44 08.836 W79 33.865
B - N44 08.909 W79 33.871
C - N44 08.955 W79 33.740
D - N44 09.048 W79 33.458
E = 3
F - N44 08.996 W79 33.313
Starting at N44 09.ABC W79 33.D3F, Face the S-shaped tree
and go left along the trail until the path ends and you have many
options. Follow the green tree route until you pass between a large
3-trunked tree and a large 2-trunked tree. Go 7 meters off to the
right, and look in the throne of the stump.
A J.A.R.S. description of Letterboxing:
I have placed my custom stamp in it plus an ink pad but bring
your own ink just in case mine runs dry (Crayola
wash
able markers make great ink
tools if you don't have an ink pad). If you have a stamp, please
stamp the log book. If you do not have a stamp, leave a drawing
(
stick figure drawings and
happy faces would be just fine you do not have to be a
Picasso or a
Da Vinci), or a sticker or a
fingerprint or pawprint, or
try a nature print using a leaf or flower as a
nature stamp, and sign the log. Stamps are really
cheap at Michael's and similar places, try Staples for an office
stamp or
make your own with an eraser and an exacto knife.
Join the fun!
Additional Hints (
Decrypt
)
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)
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guebar bs fghzc, pbirerq va onex naq gjvtf
(Decrypted Hints)
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 June 25 by booglepss12 (523 found)
#222 Well this one has been a problem for me for a while. Two weeks ago I went out and did the punches and discovered the coords for the start. A day later I went out and started at the starting point and went along the trail as described with no luck in spotting the GZ.I went back the next day and thought I had discovered the GZ. A search yielded nothing. Frustrated, I waited a week and then tried again in where I thought the GZ was. Again nothing! After asking for a little help, and armed with a hint from JP, I went out today and found the GZ and the cache quickly. Now it all makes sense! I was definitely searching in the wrong place the last two times! Thanks for the hint JP! SL TNLN TFTC
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|  May 21 by Juicepig (3336 found)
Visited cache, replaced logbook with dry one. FOR FUTURE FINDERS, PLEASE BE KIND AND PUT THE NOTEBOOK BACK IN THE PLASTIC BAG AFTER SIGNING.. sheesh..Also removed stamp E since it seems to have changed. the answer for E is 3.
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|  May 19 by Dusk Eagle (180 found)
All was fine until we reached stage E. The punch at stage E didn't seem to match any of the given patterns. We decided to go with the pattern closest to it and continued on to F and then tried to find the final. We found several trees that *might* be S-shaped and followed the directions until we reached a three-trunk and a two-trunk tree. Figuring these must be the trees we were looking for, we searched every stump within 15 meters of the trees (in every direction) but found nothing. We're still confused about stage E and not sure if we have the right coordinates to begin the final.
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| April 28 by RCA777 (628 found)
Well, after the rest of the Scanlon Creek conquest, this puppy remained. FINALLY. The cache is certainly soggy, but workable. The rubber stamp is in great shape, and a small martian is keeping guard of the log. Tried to angle the cache in its hiding-place with some extra ventilation; hopefully it'll dry. The are a lot of Trillium's appearing; in fact there seems to be a lot of flowery-things running around. TFTC.
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| April 26 by youthpoint (301 found)
FTF!! (in 2008) We decided to do this one as our 200th cache - wanted to make sure it was a good challenge! This was definitely a good challenge and a lot of fun for the whole family. We got a little confused near the end but figured it out and found the cache.Glad to see spring here - the Trilliums are starting to pop out! The log book was very wet and the bag had holes in it. Tried to dry out everything as best as we could - wish we had another baggie. Stamp and ink were in good shape. Great cache - Great adventure! TFTC!
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Current time: 12/4/2008 6:38:41 PM
Last Updated: 6/26/2008 1:18:14 AM
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Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum
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