To reach the cache, head north out of Montpelier on route
12. Take a left onto Hancock Brook Road to where it joins
with Hampshire Hill Road, then turn left onto Mountain Road.
Park at N44.25.226 W72.34.318. This is the parking area for
an well-marked trailhead.
The trail up from the parking area will take you up about two
miles, but the trail is actually fairly gradual until the last
third of the way, when it does become a little steep. There
are repeated stream crossings but all the crossings are of the
broad-jump kind if you're athletic or the
step-on-one-stone-and-you're-across kind if you're not.
If you continue up the trail another third of a mile or so
you'll be at the top of Worcester Mountain, where there are scenic
views.
Cache history: This cache (originally
named "Face It Daryll and Darryll") was originally placed in
January of 2002 by "Daryll and Darryll", (geocaching.com login
PlaOutDrz) in the form of an aspirin bottle tied to the root of a
fallen tree high up on Worcester Mountain. At the time the
cache was placed, the placers invited anyone who wished to to take
up an ammo box and log, and said that if no one did, they'd do it
in June of 2002. This never happened -- somewhere along the
way the placers sort of vanished. Presumably they're still
wandering around on the mountain somewhere.
Lemur took an ammo box with logbook,
pencils, pencil sharpeners, toys,
geocaching.com stash note, etc. up
on April 10, 2004 and found the area high up on the mountain to be
just as snowy as it'd apparently been when the original placers
took their aspirin bottle up. Lemur found the fallen tree at
the coordinates but its roots were buried under four feet of snow,
making retrieval of the original "aspirin bottle" cache a little
difficult. If anyone finds the original "aspirin bottle"
cache, they're welcome to tuck it into the ammo box.
In January 2005 WE, DJ and CAL agreed to
take over the cache, We are also changing the name to add our own.
Any Bob Newhart show fans are welcome to post their
thoughts.