INTRODUCTION:
The great William Shakespeare once penned:
Wether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous find counts,
Or to take arms against a sea of DNFs,
Blah, blah, blah
By now, we all know that XiaDog has no qualms about chasing down micros. He's often found running down to North Carolina to go on a micro cache run to bump up his numbers... Sure, he uses the excuse that his Dad, or his son, or some other relative, like a long lost Aunt, lives there, and he must visit them. But somehow during each week-long visit he just happens to have several hours available each day to track down every guardrail micro, every Lamp Post Cache, every bison tube that holds a smiley...and then comes home to proudly show off his sparkly, shiny new find count.
Dosido put an end to that nonsense by refusing to honor XiaDog's 1000 cache milestone until XiaDog proved his mettle by climbing Colonel's Mountain - a real hike with real cache, and not a guardrail in sight. However, it was XiaDog and Chief20r2 who had the last laugh, as on the day of the Colonel's Mountain hike, XiaDog gave Dosido a printout of a new cache, Team Dilemma 1100/535, which was a micro in the woods, and sent Dosido off to find the cache.
So now we come to the milestone of Xia Dog's 1500th cache. Will he choose to go after This a Simple, unremarkable LPC for his 1500th find, or will he accept the Team Dilemma challenge to find the Brown's Road Stone marker- a real hike, with a real cache, and not a Lamp Post or Guardrail in sight??
So, XiaDog...to LPC or not to LPC?
THE CACHE:
Please Note: The Cache is NOT at the above posted Coord's. It is the First part of this Two Part Mystery Cache.
While exploring further down Brown's Road I came across this Old Stone Marker at the Above Posted Coord's with a Four Digit Number.
You must first locate the Stone Marker at the above Listed Coordinates. On this Stone marker is a 4 Digit number you will need in order to locate the LPC ( Yes Xiadog an LPC in the woods )
To obtain the Last 3 Numbers of the North Coordinates you will need to Add 348 to the First 3 Digits found on the Stone Marker N 42 13.XXX
To obtain the Last 4 Numbers of the West Coordinates you will need to add the number 3926 to All 4 Digits found on the stone marker. W 072 1X.XXX
The walk to the Stone Marker and the Cache is on wide open trails and old roads suitable for bikes with some minor bushwacking required to get to the Cache from the trail. Depending on where you chose to park the round trip hike could be anywhere from 2-1/2 to 5 miles
EDIT: In March of 2009 I found this cache with my caching pup Aslanpup - we didn't realize at the time that just a few short weeks later he would be diagnosed with a heart tumor and that this would turn out to be his last find. It does seem somewhat fitting in retrospect. Given the sentimental value this cache has for me, In 2021 I asked chief if I could adopt it and he graciously passed it over to me.