I don't know, but it's got to mean something that those are the first five letters of "geocache."

except for the "O"'s, I'd say you're on to a pretty good bluegrass chord progression there buddy.

Well, I'll tell you something that doesn't work... using g, e, o, c, a, to mean 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, reading the puzzle as a set of base 5 numbers mapped to the first 25 letters of the alphabet.

In fact, any alphabet cipher is going to be difficult because of the "ee" triplets separated by only one letter. I can't imagine how that could work out.

Dude... Look at the text. It says:

"To find the cache start at the listed coordinates, descend the stairs, have a seat at the coordinates below, and decipher the message."

"If you have trouble deciphering the message have a look below you for a hint."

It sounds to me like you're not going to be able to decipher this without some clue in the landscape, at those coordinates.

"It sounds to me like you're not going to be able to decipher this without some clue in the landscape, at those coordinates."

Well, fwiw, the coordinates are at a bench on a concrete slab overlooking the sidewalk, a few lightposts, and not much else. We sat for about 30 minutes last night staring at it all. :-) According to others, it's solvable without needing to actually be sitting there.

I bought a Magellan SporTrak over the weekend and found my first cache on Sunday. After seeing this, my find seems embarassingly easy.

From a geocaching comment: "...we managed to make good on everything including accessing the necessary info to decipher the message. At first glance it seemed very perplexing. After working with it for a little while, frustration set in and we opted for making a copy of it so we could work on it at home."

This makes it sound like you need to be there, or have been there. They accessed something. Made a copy of it to take home.

What about a grid or something like this?

G E O C A G A B C D E E D E F G H O C A

That showed up a little off...I think you get the idea, though. The two letter pairs make me think it's likely to be a grid. I just can't figure out a way that makes any sense.

This is still bothering me. Has anyone solved it?

I originally thought that the "message" had to be a sentence. A friend suggested that it might be more coordinates. If you delete the spaces and punctuation of the original cache coordinates, you get a string of 17 digits: N4531320W12237684. There are 17 pairs in the first line of the cypher. It could be something like this: Co = N

Aa = 4

Ea = 5

and so on...

This is still driving me nuts. I worked a bit on Cristina's suggestion but I don't think that's it. Don't know what else it could be. I want to think that the repeated 'ee's are spaces and this is a phrase/sentence, but who knows.