Cache Me Outside

Quick warning from Rock Flippers United (that's our team name) -- this is not a normal episode of Cache Me Outside.Usually we chase treasure, but for this year's Utah Treasure Hunt QR code hunt, we're the ones guarding it. Our lineup includes the lost city of Paititi, a Viking hoard dug up in a Danish backyard, and a bidding war over Dora the Explorer, a hilarious Gollum, and every orphan named Susan.Take what you can from this episode, because any line might matter. Audio-only listeners, beware: some clues are visual, so catch the video on YouTube or Spotify.Two sponsors helped fund our part of the hunt, and no, the ad reads have nothing to do with the challenge. If you need new windows or doors, The Brokerage in Salt Lake is giving listeners $500 off projects over $3,000. Or if you'd rather plan a murder than a remodel, use code QRHUNT for 25% off Dead Man Walking on Etsy.No spoilers here, but pay attention to how we say things, not just what we talk about. Solving it may require a second lesson or a review of the transcript.

In this episode we interview Aiden, the winner of this years treasure hunt. We also wrap up this season and share our final thoughts. We will see you next year!

Clue 4 of the Bank of Utah Where's the Wallet Cash Quest is out, and it is four lines of pure anagram bait. What's something that's sweet that you always want ample. Solve for M and you'll have something for the old hippocampal. Look for a place that's in the wrong spot, that's pretty and fun and feels like a plot.We ran the whole thing through a new segment called Start, Bench, Cut. Maple started, apple got benched, jingles got cut. Slope started, because M is slope. On hippocampal, Christian went full Greek mythology: the hippocampus is a creature with the head and body of a horse and the tail of a fish, horses get apples as treats, and the thing in the wrong spot is the tail. That is Horsetail Falls in Alpine, which sits in Phelps Canyon, which is the trail from last week's census question. It rated a 6.8. Chad liked the orchard on Dry Creek better.Also: the bonus clue came out as narcissus, which is a genus of daffodil, one week after we spent an episode on Wordsworth and the daffodils. Confirmation bias at its absolute best, and Christian's confidence in Alpine went down anyway.If you're here for real solve work, there's an anagram, a slope, and a 16th century anatomist in here. If you're here for Dolphin To Go, we have that too.In This Episode:Chad wants a spreadsheet tracking everyone who speaks in absolutes about their solveMaple or apple, and whether the line even has to make sense in the sentenceSolve for M, where M is slope, John Moyle, or nothing at allWhether they picked ample to rhyme with hippocampal or hippocampal to rhyme with ampleThe big P on the Alpine mountain, which is on Peterson's land and is therefore in the wrong spotPlot as a cemetery plot, a literary device, a garden bed, or the button on a TI-83Half-baked ideas, biggest robberies, and the worst lines from past hunt poemsLast week's question is answered: the one Alpine trail that shares a name with the 1850 census is Phelps Canyon.One ask. People have been searching the Alpine Cemetery. It's not there, we've looked, and it's a real cemetery with real families buried in it. Please leave it alone.We're hitting the trail this week and doing an Instagram Live from it. With audio this time.#utah #treasure #utahtreasurehunt #bankofutah #wheresthewallet

This one has pickup lines, an argument about whether paragliding counts as transportation, a longer argument about whether a Caterpillar tractor counts as a big cat, three separate definitions of the word barrow, a game we stole from an improv troupe, and then, eventually, actual treasure hunt theories.Clue 3 of the Bank of Utah Where's the Wallet Cash Quest is out, and Christian walked in with a solve the other two had never heard. The lonely soul who danced among the flowers is William Wordsworth, who wrote "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud." Alpine, Utah was settled by a William Wadsworth, and it started out as Fort Mountainville, a mud fort. A very muddy ville. From the monument at Legacy Park you walk straight up Main Street, no turns, to the Alpine Cemetery at the base of Cemetery Hill. A barrow placed below the hill. On Clue 1 he has moved off Promontory Point and onto the Golden Spoke monument at the Point of the Mountain, one letter off the Golden Spike and sitting right on the Salt Lake and Utah county line. Clue 2 still has us beat. Everything we find points at Lehi, and Lehi is a city, not a county.If you are here for real solve work, there is a poem, an 1850 census, and a fault line in here. If you are here for five minutes on whether a tractor is a big cat, we have that too.In This Episode:Caden explains the new no-gatekeeping policy: he does not believe in us, he believes in the audienceThe Golden Spoke, which is technically a plaque, which Christian keeps calling a monumentFollow the big cats, and no, not the CougarsChristian calling his own confirmation bias out loud before the solve, because he and Caden both grew up in AlpineA barrow is a burial mound, a wheelbarrow, or a castrated male pig, and only one of those helpsHey Baby, a new pickup line segment that Christian swept in three roundsChristian goes on record at 72 percentListener challenge: there is exactly one trail in Alpine that shares a name with someone on the 1850 census carved into that cemetery monument. Christian knows which one and will not say it. Go find it and tell us.If you send us a solve and you do not want us talking about it on the show, say so and we will not.Next week, Christian's new segment: the Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Treasure Hunters.#utah #treasure #utahtreasurehunt #bankofutah #wheresthewallet

Clue one was a gentle lob right over the plate. Clue two came in and completely rocked our confidence. Caden, Christian, and Chad dig into Bank of Utah's second clue for the "Where's the Wallet" Cash Quest, and things get weird fast — is it about locomotives, automotives, or just plain old motives? Is Box Elder County still in play, or did we all fall for the misdirection the clue literally warned us about?We revisit the Box Elder theory (sweet sap, unsettled territory, Promontory Point train ties), float a Weber County curveball, and yes, someone brings up Cache County purely because it lets us say "Cache my Cache Quest" out loud. Buckle up.Got a theory better than ours? Send it our way — happy to read it on the show, or keep you anonymous if you'd rather just quietly be smarter than us.Leave us a review! Every episode we pick a favorite and send that reviewer $25. Make us laugh, make us think, or just tell us we're wrong about Box Elder.In This Episode:Caden's 5-year-best solve streak gets a shoutout (thanks, dude)Six-legged vs. eight-legged, and Highway 8 vs. Highway 6"We're cashing up" — an instant classic, we don't make the rulesLocomotive → automotive → literal motive, a philosophical journeyBox Elder trees have sap you can tap, and now you know tooThe Cache County pitch that may or may not just be brand loyaltyA Utah trivia bonus round, because five words really can be "Under the Banner of Heaven"