If you're the kind of person who wants to solve the hardest, most evil puzzle ever conceived...well, this puzzle probably won't satisfy your itch. But, it's no gimme, either. You WILL be able to solve this puzzle, but it'll take some sharp eyes to spot the coordinates.
I have hidden a few puzzle caches and I have done what I can to make them less about "solving a puzzle" and more about being interactive with the workings of the puzzle. In short, I build puzzle caches of the kind of puzzles that I would enjoy solving/finding. I don't particularly enjoy beating my head against the wall or sifting through pages of Wikipedia information to come up with clues to solve a puzzle. I'm not very good at ciphers or geometry or calculus or Sudoku's. Sometimes I luck out and what should be a pretty tough puzzle is right in my wheelhouse and I get the solve. Most times, however, I'm like a fish out of water. So, I like the "easy" puzzles. Give me source code puzzles, give me QR puzzles, give me stereograms, heck, give me Morris Code puzzles. This puzzle is sort of in that same realm: it's pretty basic but it does provide that Aha! moment. That's what I like in puzzles and I hope you do as well! All puzzles don't have to be some impossible brain bender to be enjoyable, right? A little tricky, sure but not something you'll have to invest more than a few minutes in to solve.
So, to solve this puzzle and get the coordinates to the final, follow the link that I provide below and click on the thumbnail to open the picture. The coordinates are hidden in that picture, somewhere. All you have to do is find them. Easy as pie. Anyone can do it. Even you. Yes, YOU! That person who simply can't solve ANY puzzle...you can solve this one! I'm telling you, YOU CAN! Just follow the link and you'll find the coordinates eventually. The numbers are not hidden in the source code, exif data, white texted, etc. They are all arranged in proper coordinate fashion (N 44° xx.xxx W 088° xx.xxx). They are right there in the picture you're looking at. The numbers themselves might be a tad on the small (even tiny) side, so look closely and pay attention to details. (getting closer to the screen helps)
If you don't have the final coordinates within a few measly minutes of staring at the picture, well, the world must have spun off its axis or we've been consumed by a rogue blackhole. Surely you don't want to be the one responsible for the end of humanity as we know it, right? Of course not! So, just look at the picture, find the coordinates and the rest of us can continue inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide. Anyway, enough blah, blah, blah out of me...let's get to the good stuff!
Click here to solve the puzzle! (link will open in a new page-click on the thumbnail for the picture)
At the posted coordinates, you can park alongside the roadway. From there, it's only about a .5 mile roundtrip to the cache. This cache was hidden in the spring and there was standing water on each side of the trail, so come prepared to either wade across the water (could be up to knee deep) or find a dry way over.
The Geocache Notification Form has been submitted to Kelly Raleigh Moses of the Wisconsin DNR. Geocaches placed on Wisconsin Department of Natural Resource managed lands require permission by means of a notification form. Please print out a paper copy of the notification form, fill in all required information, then submit it to the land manager. The DNR Notification form and land manager information can be obtained at: http://www.wi-geocaching.com/hiding.
This cache placed by Crow-T-Robot, a member of:
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