KUDDA BEEN C.L.O.

09/22/2009 By Denali41
Golly, this one has puzzled me for a couple of years, and despite having taken lots of different approaches, I still needed help from a caching friend. Reflecting on my overall approach, I have always been too literal in reading the cache description about the "clue", thinking that the word "clue" referred only to the clues to be extracted from the C.L.O. cache page (as Geofred's first mention of "clue" refers to). So I worked and worked at puzzling out a bearing and distance as well as coordinates from the C.L.O. clue, and actually believed I had solutions twice--until I got in the field each time and learned my assumptions were incorrect. Now I discover that "clue" refers to both the C.L.O. page as well as to something to be found in the field. So I made this entire engagement much more difficult than I needed to. Today, finding it and signing the log, sort of exorcised a demon that's been haunting me. Thanks, Geofred, for a good puzzler, and thanks to a caching friend for the help I finally needed. I really hate to get any assistance, but this one was making me go crazy!

08/16/2009 By sleuthers
2 years ago I looked at this puzzle and C.L.O. and managed to solve C.L.O (but DNF). This weekend we headed back up to the Red Feather lakes area again and decided to give this intriguing cache another try. I got some help, but in retrospect I was making it 100 times harder than it should have been.

We ended up hiking in about 2 miles from the North West along a lovely trail. We saw nobody for the entire hike. What beautiful scenery. The clue is getting a bit hard to read. The cache itself is in good shape. Thanks for the fun.

05/09/2008 By geofred
Congratulations to doglover3pups on their success and thank you for the maintenance on the cache.
Now if there is just one more cacher out with winning ways this year, this cache will be averaging 1 per year! Come on down!

05/09/2008 By doglover&pups
Yeah we finally found it! BigSmile Thanks to Geofred for the encouragement and letting us know we where on the right track when it came to solving the puzzle. I though this puzzle was easier than CLO. And even more thanks to Geofred for telling me to reread the cache page--it all made sense after that. LNTN TFTC

[This entry was edited by doglover3pups on Friday, May 09, 2008 at 5:08:18 PM.]
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04/18/2008 By doglover&pups
We had a wondeful hike but did not find the cache. We found a lid nailed to a stump, but it was very rusted and hard to read. We tried a couple of things that we thought it said, but no cache. Anyway thanks for the fun.

09/03/2006 By Clan Mroczko
FTF @ 10:52 with an *

At last! At last! We found it at last. I stared at the C.L.O. page for weeks, trying to solve it yet another way. C.L.O. was tough enough for me and Kudda Been C.L.O. was proving to be even tougher. But with a little help from my Geofred friend we managed to get up there twice and finally found it.

This cache must have had my number. With help I got on the right track as to how he was thinking. Very clever and I wish I could have arrived at his conclusion on my own.

The worst part was even after I was on track I couldn't count correctly. Thus the second trip and the shame of it all.

We had a great chase and a hobby while doing this cache. Hopefully, it won't take another year and a half before this cache gets done again.

In the end I placed an asterisk by the FTF. After all we did end up needing assistance to complete the cache.

Thanks Geofred for the cache and Happy Trails.

We finally got it !