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 solve
• Maple or apple, and whether the line even has to make sense in the sentence
• Solve for M, where M is slope, John Moyle, or nothing at all
• Whether they picked ample to rhyme with hippocampal or hippocampal to rhyme with ample
• The big P on the Alpine mountain, which is on Peterson's land and is therefore in the wrong spot
• Plot as a cemetery plot, a literary device, a garden bed, or the button on a TI-83
• Half-baked ideas, biggest robberies, and the worst lines from past hunt poems

Last 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.

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