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National Park Mystery Spot 36: Seven Words

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on February 23, 2012 - 3:59am

To get full credit for solving the Mystery Spot 36 puzzle you need only identify which national park is indicated by the clues listed below.*

Readers submitting correct answers will be eligible for a monthly prize drawing. This month the prize will be a Freedom of the Hills deck of cards from The Mountaineers. Each card features various mountaineering tips.

Humpty Dumpty

sheltered anchorage

grandfather's mother

picturesque

We'll reveal the answer and explain the clues in tomorrow's Traveler.

* No cheating! If we catch you Googling or engaged in other sneakery, we'll make you write on the whiteboard 100 times: "In gauge theory applications, most quantization methods keep Poincare invariance manifest, but the attendant sacrifice of manifest gauge symmetry compels gauge fixing."

Comments

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on February 23, 2012 - 5:41am.

Nice going, GeorgeS. Spot on.
Sorry about that darn CAPTCHA. I wish we didn't have to use it.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on February 23, 2012 - 6:05am.

Eric has nailed it. No surprise there.

We'll add djjeffrey100 to the prize drawing-eligible pool too. The name of the park could have been fleshed out better, but there's no doubt that it's the right place.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on February 23, 2012 - 7:00am.

Anon 7:35 has gotten enough of the park's name to slide into the prize drawing pool. We'll grade it out at a "B". ;o)

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on February 23, 2012 - 7:10am.

Well, ed-123, you did get the key parts of the name, and that's better than most who work on this thing. We'll accept it.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on February 23, 2012 - 8:01am.

Good job, Aron. As for your postscript, well, that's TMI.

Submitted by fourseasonqueen on February 23, 2012 - 8:20am.

kenai fjords park???

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on February 23, 2012 - 8:33am.

Not Kenai Fjords National Park.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on February 23, 2012 - 8:37am.

Correct, viewmtn. BTW, the Quizmeister is frankly surprised that you did not grasp the portent of "grandfather's mother." Think about it and report back.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on February 23, 2012 - 8:55am.

You got it celbert. BTW, that second set of words you incidentally mentioned is a category to which this park belongs -- that is, it's a heading under which this park is listed.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on February 23, 2012 - 9:11am.

Kudos to Eric Nelson. Right on the button.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on February 23, 2012 - 9:53am.

Jerry, you are on the right track, but that's not the correct designation.

Submitted by Ilex_Opaca on February 23, 2012 - 10:10am.

For some reason I'm finding this one pretty tough. I'm going to guess Seawall at Acadia

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on February 23, 2012 - 10:34am.

That's closer, Jerry, but it still needs some work. Since you are in the proper park, you have the Quizmeister's permission to look up the proper designation for it.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on February 23, 2012 - 10:35am.

Wrong ballpark, RangerLady. Have you had your coffee yet?

Submitted by Ilex_Opaca on February 23, 2012 - 10:39am.

Nope, no coffee. No breakfast either. Maybe I do need some brain power for this one.

Submitted by Ilex_Opaca on February 23, 2012 - 11:12am.

Ok...half a cup of coffee down. I'm going to try again. The Humpty Dumpty rock climbing area in Queen Valley in Joshua Tree National Park. If this isn't right, only 395 more guesses to go!

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on February 23, 2012 - 11:19am.

Finish your coffee and try again, RangerLady. Only 395 guesses to go!

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on February 23, 2012 - 11:47am.

Let us help you narrow it down, Rangerlady. Your last guess was on the wrong side of the Mississippi River.

Submitted by Ilex_Opaca on February 23, 2012 - 11:52am.

Ok I have one last guess and then I'm going to actually have to work today. Great Falls Park - part of the George Washgington Memorial Parkway.
Humpty Dumpty had a GREAT FALL...

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on February 23, 2012 - 12:44pm.

Jerry's got it figured out.

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on February 23, 2012 - 1:25pm.

And Jo has nailed it also.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on February 23, 2012 - 1:39pm.

OK, David Crowl and Steve B, that's close enough. Good job.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on February 23, 2012 - 1:49pm.

Not Great Falls Park, RangerLady, but hey; look on the bright side: You have moved your sleuthery project to the correct half of the continent!

Submitted by Ilex_Opaca on February 23, 2012 - 3:17pm.

For some reason that doesn't make me feel better Bob, but thanks for trying. I do believe the Quizmeister has beaten me. I still have 2 hours to think about it before I go to my computerless home...

Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on February 23, 2012 - 3:25pm.

Well, well, well, rest easy fellow travelers, RangerLady has finally figured it out. Well done, even if it is after noon....

Submitted by Ilex_Opaca on February 23, 2012 - 3:42pm.

Haha Kurt. Somedays a girl just needs more than one cup of coffee....