-TwoCs- Is Puzzled! #12

04/07/2019 By AbvAvg
Geochecker confirmed the correct coordinates. Looked and could not find the container. Some of the trees in the area and the one at the GZ have had branches removed up above my head so I think the cache is gone. Will contact the CO.

01/24/2019 By siff
Having solved the series of puzzles, including the now archived #7, I got a nudge on how to solve this one. Wandered out on a snowy, but sunny afternoon, hopeful that the replacement cache was 'winter friendly'. Spent a good 10 minutes here, and just as Rob said we should give it up, I spied the zip-tie! Perfectly camouflaged container, especially with a bit of snow on it! SL. I'll try and compete the rest of the un-found caches in due course. Thanks for a most interesting set of puzzles. Gets a favorite point, too!

01/05/2019 By jasperdakota
I had solved all the other TwoCs is Puzzled puzzles over the past couple of years. Really enjoyed all the puzzles. This was the last one. Received a hint on this one at a recent puzzle event. Based on the previous log, I left a zip-tied camoed FC container. Thanks for all the fun!

11/29/2017 By icezebra11
Back in late 2013 I work a little bit solving some of the "-TwoCs- is Puzzled" series of caches and was successful at solving four of them - #3, #8, #10, and #11. I found and logged 8, 10, and 11 but #3 got archived because it was washed away in the flood of September 2013.

Recently I decided to work some more on the series. I discovered that #7 had also been archived so that left me with seven puzzles to ponder. I had time before family arrived for Thanksgiving to solve four of the seven - #1, #2, #6, and #9. Plus I even solved #7 because I was having so much fun with them all. I worked on #4 and #5 for quite a bit of time before I broke down and asked TwoCs for a nudge. I received a quick response and with the new hints I worked through those two and got good geochecks. That just left #12, the hardest of them all.

I had looked at #12 off and on over the last few years and nothing seemed to make sense. But sometimes what appears to be a lost cause turns to gold. This time when I picked it up I quickly came up with a promising idea. After some playing with my method for less than 30 minutes, I had a successful geocheck!

Today I headed south from my home in Loveland to seek out the containers for the seven caches. I mapped out a path before leaving home and it worked out very well. I was able to find all seven containers! Only #12 gave me trouble but I did find it.

I searched for quite a bit at GZ but couldn't locate the container so I headed for a convenience store a few miles away to take a much needed break. Then I drove back and began searching some more. After another 10 minutes of searching I finally found the body of the container, it was lying on the open ground. The lid and log were missing and I searched for them but didn't have any luck finding them. The body of the container had been chewed beyond repair. I didn't have a replacement container with me so until -TwoCs- can replace the container, there is nothing at GZ to find. This is a great cache and hopefully it will be fixed up quickly.

Thanks -TwoCs- for this great series of challenging puzzles!!!

11/21/2014 By MooseTag
Doing a puzzle run while the weather is nice. Thanks for all the fun puzzles and the variety! Wow, first signature in 3 1/2 years! I know why but that's still amazing. I guess I can qualify for many lonely cache challenges now! Thanks for a great series I enjoyed each and every one of them and spending the day turning in many of your puzzles! Giving it a favorite in the hopes more will do them!

04/27/2011 By Lord Mike
Solved the puzzle a year ago and missed finding the final. This time I walked right to it, SL.

05/23/2010 By -TwoCs-
Added a hint.

12/11/2009 By Miles ToGeo
I'm glad to finally get this series of puzzles finished. I enjoyed working on all of them. I was glad too that the final was still there after all this time between finds. I signed the log.