By a junction above a twenty-year-old mystery on the Brigham Face.
Twenty years ago I took a road up here one night to look for a geocache, and found myself in a subdivision under construction. At least I thought that's what it was, but there's apparently never been any such thing, and there's certainly no trace of it now. It's a mystery that's bugged me for years, and I think about it every time I drive by here.
I think I know what happened -- back when the quarry was brand-new, I took the second road that now leads to the quarry, instead of the first one that leads to the WMA; and in the dark, I mistook the new quarry construction for that of a subdivision. But despite this sensible explanation, my memory still brings forth images of roadside curbs and framed houses half-lit by tall streetlights in the dark. So maybe, just maybe, like Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas in Brigadoon, I stumbled upon a mysterious subdivision that only appears for one night every 100 years!
Brigham Face WMA is closed annually from January-April. I don't think the cache is within the WMA, but if the gate across the access road is locked at that time, it will add about a quarter-mile to the hike.
The satellite map places the coordinate pin on the wrong side of the road from the cache. Let me know if I need to adjust the coordinates!
Congratulations to desert_dawg for the FTF! I love the Mantua poppies!
This cache is part of the series, MountainHobbit's Mathoms, Year 17. Don't know what a mathom is? Check out Chapter 1 in the Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien to find out the reason for this hobbity celebration!