Hitchin' a ride with Ravenchase

Polygedral sundial

Early on, we were feeling rather haughty as we had determined The Marvins were the first to decipher the starter clue which tells the teams where to meet for the event. Never mind that the puzzle was supposed to be solved with ASCII text, we saw the words "ancient spine," "neighboring rose bushes" and "shadow" and Googled "sundial" to discover the trippiest damned time-telling contraption we've ever seen…on this planet, anyway.