A one stop
multi with the cache very near to the posted co-ordinates and the
waypoint.
The co-ords on the cache page are for suggested parking. A short
walk from here will take you to the first ( and only ) waypoint
where you will find the co-ordinates for the final cache.
You will then be rewarded with a treasure chest, if not full of
gold, then full of travel bugs and coins.
King Midas, as you are no doubt aware is credited with the myth
that everything he touched turned to gold.
Bacchus found his old schoolmaster and foster father, the satyr
Silenus, missing.
The old satyr had been drinking wine and had wandered away, later
to be found by some Phrygian peasants, who carried him to their
king, Midas, who recognized him and treated him hospitably,
entertaining him for ten days and nights with politeness, while
Silenus delighted Midas and his friends with stories and
songs.
On the eleventh day, Midas brought Silenus back to Bacchus in
Lydia. Bacchus offered Midas his choice of whatever reward he
wished for. Midas asked that whatever he might touch should be
changed into gold.
Midas rejoiced
in his new power, which he hastened to put to the test. He touched
an oak twig and a stone; both turned to gold.
Overjoyed, as soon as he got home, he ordered the servants to set a
feast on the table. So Midas, King of Lydia, swelled at first with
pride when he found he could transform everything he touched to
gold; but when he beheld his food grow rigid and his drink harden
into golden ice then he understood that this gift was a bane and in
his loathing for gold, cursed his prayer.
Now, Midas hated the gift he had coveted. He prayed to Bacchus,
begging to be delivered from starvation. Bacchus heard, and
consented; he told Midas to wash in the river Pactolus.
Midas did so, and when he touched the waters, the power flowed into
the river, and the river sands turned into gold.
