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Monkeybrad: Dropped by here today to check on the cache and the entire overlook has been filled in. Hard to believe that they spent so much money to create the overlook just a few years ago and now they have destroyed it.

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Hidden : 10/19/2006
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Pull-Tight Hill Road is called “Pulltight” because farmers headed to College Grove in the old days had to stop at the bottom and pull their mules tight in their traces before the upward haul. They might have been carrying tobacco or soy beans to Gosey Hill Overlook Market, or they might have been headed to the hardware store for supplies. They might have been loaded down with seven or eight children, headed to church. Anyway those traces had to be tight, to make the long pull up the hill. In later days, they paved the one lane road and it made for an exciting place to race motorcycles, if you didn't have good sense. In those days to travel over Pulltight was to take your life in your hands, it was dangerous and exciting. These days the road is smooth asphalt and my V-10 engine had no trouble making the climb yesterday. A new overlook at the top with a plaque reading “PULLTIGHT HILL ROAD RECONSTRUCTION 2004-2005 offers a great place to stop and enjoy the spectacular view. Some folks say that this is a million dollar view, looking at the money spent to build the new road in here, I would say that this is a several million dollar view. It is nice and pretty, and far more accessible, but it has also lost some of it's charm. It is a thing for us to remember as our world grows safer, more accessible and manageable; sometimes it is the element of danger itself that is most appealing.

I looked all over for somewhere clever to hide something evil, but in the end decided that it would be more fun to hide a regular container here among the rocks so you could find it quickly and get back to enjoying this great view.

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