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Codebroken: One of the ammo cans had an error for its own puzzle

Last week I took a long walk in the Assinaboine Forest with a friend & fellow geocacher and found a few hidden stashes. Of the half-dozen we found, most were the normal type – you enter a set of coordinates into your GPS, try to get to the marked location (‘ground zero’) and then find the hidden container.

The last one we attempted was a puzzle cache called Lost Civilization; an older cache that had been transferred to a new ‘owner.’ To get the coordinates, we were supposed to decode a set of dots and dashes provided along with the description… except that after some research, the encoding turned out to be broken.

For anyone interested, the correct code should be:

.. ….| .. || .. ..| 0
…. ..||| ….|| . || |

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