August 2008 Cache of the Month

GC1AAR9 - Fargnot Legendarium: Puzzle Cache by Fargnot
Nominated by Pear Head
I recently traveled to Bemidji for work. There's nothing like living out of a hotel and working for 8 hours a day... What to do with the rest of the time?
A) Sit around and watch TV
B) Geocache?

The first day I was in town I printed off a number of the puzzle cache pages to solve in my spare time. Among them were five caches in the Legendarium series. This was a series that the Fargnots put out near the end of this past winter to keep the Bemidji area cachers busy. According to Allan and Cindy, they spent a couple of months putting the series together, and expected it to take quite a while for folks to solve the puzzles. To their surprise, most of the FTFs came in just a few days.

I'm outlining the Farnot Legendarium: Puzzle Cache today. The puzzle, like most of the puzzles they've put out, is intended to be "solvable". No super-difficult-double-cipher-stand-on-your-head-close-your-left-eye-cough-three-times-and-read-between-the-lines puzzles. In other words, pfalstad wouldn't be the "sole target audience" for this one.

The puzzle itself is fairly straightforward; with the small twist of the fact that it's a night cache. I've done a number of night caches now, and I have loved every single one of them. They are, by far, my favorite type of cache, and the fun is multiplied if you can get 2 or more people together to do them.

The cache is simple enough - follow the reflectors around a park area that has some wide trails. Part of the cache is on the trail with a little bit of off-trail (dare I say bushwacking even). A good mix for a cache.

The effort that the Fargnots have put into this cache and others in the area, from the cache page, container and cammo, and hide placement shows just how much they really do care about caching in the area.
Thanks Fargnots!