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Solving a puzzle geocache

I am trying to solve a puzzle geocache. Does anyone have any idea where to start?

Here is the link to the page.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=c9cedb13-a1f7-4a56-8ff9-35e748bc23c2&log=y&decrypt=

The Quick Brown Fox

N 44° 20.403 W 074° 21.042

First things first, the cache is not located at the given coordinates; they simply provide you with a nice place to park and think and work out the cryptogram below. The cache is between 0.25 miles and 6.50 miles away from the original coordinates. I counted 18 kinds of trees between my car and the cache location, saw 3 kinds of birds, 4 types of animals tracks, and am 97% sure that I saw a bobcat. Good luck finding this cache, it's in some really beautiful woods.

1-4-1, 2-1-2, 3-2-6, 4-2-3, 1-8-4, 2-2-1, 3-12-4, 4-8-4, 1-1-2, 2-3-2, 3-2-3, 4-3-3, 1-8-7, 2-4-5, 3-6-2, 4-4-1, 1-2-2, 2-2-5, 3-7-1, 4-4-3, 1-2-5, 4-1-1, 2-1-3, 3-4-5, 1-2-1, 4-9-1, 3-2-2, 4-2-3, 3-4-1, 1-9-1, 2-4-3, 3-4-3, 3-19-1, 3-19-1, 2-5-3, 2-8-4, 2-5-2, 3-15-1, 3-26-2, 3-19-1, 4-11-1, 2-5-1, 3-26-2, 3-19-1, 2-5-3, 3-3-1, 2-5-2, 3-19-1, 2-5-4, 3-26-2

The cache container is is an ammo-can filled with trade items, a logbook, and a pencil.

Additional Hints (Encrypt)

You should be able to figure out this with a printout of the listing and a pencil

☠ MASQ ☠

Each group of numbers starts with 1,2,3 or 4
You'll need the whole of the cache description to find ground zero not just the numbers ;)
To help start you off the solution begins, "The cache is ...."

AKERDOC

ASKER

Thank you for the help, but I still can't figure out what the solution is. I saw that they all started with 1,2, 3 or 4. There are also several 3 number combinations that are the same such as 3-26-2 and 3-19-1. I have been looking at eh whole page for days with no light turning on. I have also looked at other links from the page to see if there is anything that would make sense there. and I have counted letters, and words and lines trying to see if the numbers give coordinates such as line, word and letter. I guess this is what happens when you start to get old :-).

Thanks for your help.

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☠ MASQ ☠

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Markus Fischer

You are good, Masqueraid! You must have done this before... — (^v°)

AKERDOC

ASKER

Thank you for the help.

AKERDOC

ASKER

It was simple once you pointed it out. I can't believe how hard I was making it. I was trying to do whole words, not letters. Counting lines not sentences. I spent several days working on this and was getting nowhere.

1-2-1, 1-2-2, 1-5-2, 1-7-1, 3-4-1, 1-1-4

☠ MASQ ☠

Thanks for your thanks :)

AKERDOC

ASKER

Just to let you know, I found the Geocache near Saranac Lake, NY. Thank you so much for you help. It was in a very pretty spot.
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☠ MASQ ☠

Nicely done - I love ammo box caches - so much potential!
Good to see I'm not the only one to have the same user name on multiple sites ;)

Micolo

please Help need to find out the meaning of this things below.

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Just compy it and past to word

Thanks