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[TRAILHEAD]Missing Wallace

[Angelus78]

Curious code:

[CarnageBlack]

That code doesn't conform to rot1-rot47. I tried to check anagrams, but the lack of vowels is problematic. I mean there's a handful of "U"s and one "E". I wonder if that's a tipoff to something. Dunno.

[Angelus78]

[catherwood-offline]

it's made up entirely of digraphs, i think that is a clue. I would try the Playfair cracker program I have on my home computer, but it won't run here at work on a 64-bit Windows machine.

[catherwood]

bah, silly me, ignore the above (i cannot edit or delete it now). I misread my utility; there are many recurring digraphs, but plenty of pairs which occur only once. Nevermind, I solved it with a simple substitution:

[Angelus78]

I take my hat off to you Catherwood, how about Banbury? It is a spot in the UK.

[thebruce]

meta:
in the html meta tags

[CarnageBlack]

It could be referencing the Banbury Gold Mines. Y and M being the missing letters.

[ndemeter]

Damn it, another April Fool's ARG? That just adds to the confusion!

[thebruce]

Agreed, one letter corrected, gives:

PXHUPV
BFVUPUSVBFC PUTQBFCS FUTP HTFHLPD SBVU DXL NBCKV HU PBCKV THXLV VKU WBFUS
SXLPEU?

[JumboTron]

[Angelus78]

Interesting readings, I wonder what exactly they were measuring.

[ndemeter]

Using simple Google-Fu it appears that there was a base camp established in the area in 1984:

http://propertyfile.gov.bc.ca/PDFTemp/fileid_25260.pdf

And to clarify, we are talking about the area near Hedley, British Columbia.

[CarnageBlack]

I really can't make out much of the other side. I'll see what I can do.

EDIT: Not sure how right this is but it looks like: