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Mount Doom! Traditional Geocache

Hidden : 5/27/2007
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

A cache near Mount Doom!

Frodo: "I will take the Ring to Mordor. Though — I do not know the way."

I came across a map of Castle Rock for rock-climbers and I saw a reference to Mount Doom! Being the Tolkien nutter that I am I couldn't resist trying to place a cache nearby.

Sam: FRODO!
Frodo: I'm here Sam.
Sam: Destroy it!
[Frodo holds the ring on its chain over the edge of the pit]
Sam: Go on! Now! Throw it in the fire!
[Frodo stares at the ring, the ring whispers to him]
Sam: What are you waiting for? Just let it go!
[Frodo turns and looks at Sam]
Frodo: The ring is mine.
[He snaps the chain and approaches the ring to his finger]
Sam: No... no...
[Frodo slips the ring on and vanishes]
Sam: NO!

The cache is off trail and is a couple of hundred feet from Mount Doom on a grassy wooded slope. While I came up from Saratoga Gap Trail, the easiest approach is from the Ridge Trail.

He followed Sam into Sammath Naur and struck him on the head from behind. Frodo had claimed the Ring and put it on, but Gollum found him and the two struggled desperately on the edge of the Cracks of Doom. Then Gollum bit off Frodo's finger and he had the Ring in his possession at last. Distracted in his joy, Gollum lost his balance and fell over the edge into the fiery chasm below. The Ring was destroyed and Gollum was killed. His last word as he fell was, "Precious!"

Enjoy! And happy caching!

50sumtin

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