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 audience
- The Golden Spoke, which is technically a plaque, which Christian keeps calling a monument
- Follow the big cats, and no, not the Cougars
- Christian calling his own confirmation bias out loud before the solve, because he and Caden both grew up in Alpine
- A barrow is a burial mound, a wheelbarrow, or a castrated male pig, and only one of those helps
- Hey Baby, a new pickup line segment that Christian swept in three rounds
- Christian goes on record at 72 percent
Listener 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.
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