A Week of Stumpwater #3 - 1/7/13

Today's North Carolina puzzle continues our week of puzzles picked by SilentP42 (for my purposes, which are unlike most everyone else's, the puzzle week begins on Saturday and culminates on Friday).  Hope you enjoy:

Shields of the First Age

Tomorrow, another installment from North Carolina.

A Week of Stumpwater #2 1/6/13

Today's North Carolina puzzle continues our week of puzzles picked by SilentP42.  I've put out what feels like quite a few caches myself, but I have quite a ways to go to get to:

One Hundred!!!

Tomorrow, more from North Carolina.

A Week of Stumpwater #1 - 1/5/13

Today's puzzle kicks off a week of North Carolina puzzles picked for us by reader SilentP42.  Without any further ado, we have:

Quercus Cryptus

Tomorrow, back to North Carolina.

Filthy Vermin! - 1/4/13

Today's Nevada cache tells the story of mischief wreaked by some:

Filthy Vermin!  (Link fixed ... sorry about that.  The other puzzle is one I'm planning to feature soon).

Tomorrow we'll begin a week's worth of puzzles from North Carolina.

A side note:  I was discussing the fate of the useful "Purple Hell" site with another cacher recently, and learned that an archived version is available, at least for now ... use it while it lasts.

Purple Hell Riddle Tools (Archived)

Cached Out - 1/3/13

When I was growing up down south, the traditional post-Christmas greeting was, "Was Santa Claus good to you?" I am happy to report that Santa was very good to me this year, and one of the items under my tree was this mystery novel:  

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which was written by a geocacher (The Rat), features puzzle-making & solving geocachers in pivotal roles, and even includes geocaching puzzles to solve along the way.  What a great idea!  I considered sharing one of the puzzles from the book here, but decided I didn't want to spoil the fun if you end up reading it yourself.  Instead, I'm featuring a different California puzzle by the author, whose work has appeared here before.  We can see that as early as 2003 the author was already spinning entertaining stories like the one in:

 

Black Adder

 

Tomorrow we'll be in Nevada.

Fly Navy! - 1/2/13

Today's Virginia puzzle was picked for us by reader LuckysGirls.  If you'd like to be a guest puzzle-picker, please contact me via Geocaching.com (I'm part of teamajk).  For today, enjoy:

Fly Navy!

Tomorrow we'll head to California.

A New Year's Puzzle - 1/1/13

It's hard to believe that it's been two years since I kicked off this little blog experiment.  I've enjoyed hearing from folks out there who visit regularly.  Today's puzzle comes to us from Canada's Alberta province.  What better way to start off the new year than with:

A New Year's Puzzle

Tomorrow we'll be in Virginia.