Every stream is a code.
Seven letters build a whole valley: the bends, the beaches, the creeks, the buried chest. The same code always builds the same stream, so you can pass one on.
This page is standing in stream H77M8H4.
What a code builds.
- The course
How the stream bends, where it narrows between rock walls, and where its riffles run.
- Beaches and bays
Gravel bars on the inside of the bends, and backwaters behind rock points, each with its own name.
- Creeks
Six side creeks that fork into the woods, and in some streams a channel round a wooded island.
- The hidden gold
One pay streak, the richest gravel in the stream, and one buried chest the ring reads violet.
Three skies, a third each.
Left to chance, the stream opens on a sunny day, in the afterglow, or at blue hour. Or choose sunrise, sunset, dusk or night, in clear air, mist, fog, rain or snow. The moon has five phases, from new to full.