Coordinates listed above are for the parking area only. To reach
this area leaving Harrisonburg, head on 33 East. Once you pass the
Log Cabin Restaurant (shortly after the entrance to Massanutten),
take the next left on to East Point Road. Take this road for
approximately four miles until you reach the sign for Runkles Gap
Road (sign to Katherine Furnace). Take a left on this road and you
will enter George Washington National Forest. This should get you
to the coordinates listed above. From Elkton or Shenandoah, I would
recommend following the directions given by Shmair for Not Really a
Planet (GC16ZA0).
You will park at the area near the Peterfish Gap sign. You will
have to follow the pinkish-purple trail blazes to reach the
cache.
My wife and I decided to place this cache to honor J.R.R.
Tolkien. We are both big fans of his Lord of the Rings books and
recent movie adaptations and thought we would add a little
challenge to this.
Despite anyone's feelings towards the books or movies, you have
to appreciate the depth of detail that Tolkien used to create the
world of Middle Earth. One of these areas of detail was his
creation of Elvish languages.
To find the coordinates of the actual cache, you will need to
translate the following from Elvish. Get your geeky Hobbit on and
solve it. You will need to use the following website:
http://arwen-undomiel.com/elvish/elv_to_eng.html
Forod Neled Toloth Tad Toloth. Canad Leben Min
Dun (Min Leben Eneg Toloth Tad Odog Eneg) multiplied by
Leben
Thanks to some recent caches in the area, hopefully this area
will get some more attention. I would encourage anyone to bring
along a trashbag and cache in/trash out. It seems to be these woods
are overrun by some drinkers and sloppy campers.
Original contents are a Jeep travel bug, a 13 colonies geocoin,
some stretchy lizards, log book, pen, and some Lord of the Rings
Card games. Calo anor na ven!
Congrats to Shmair for the FTF! You're lucky you weren't shot
lurking like a drunken Frankenstein during hunting season in the
dark. :)