Southern Highlands Event Nearby boxes LbNA #23199 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | MountainScorpia  |
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| Plant date: | Jun 22, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Burnsville |
| County: | Yancey |
| State: | North Carolina |
| Boxes: | 26 |
| Found by: | The Little Foxes (2) |
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| Last found: | Aug 11, 2006 |
| Status: | FFFFF |
| Last edited: | Jun 22, 2006 |
12/29/07 - SOME OF THESE BOXES HAVE BEEN YANKED BY ME; SOME ARE MIA. CONTACT ME FOR EMAILED CLUES. CLUES WILL BE CLEANED UP AND RE-POSTED IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS. THANK YOU.
(S) = Songcatcher Series
BURNSVILLE WAS NAMED FOR SEA CAPTAIN OTWAY BURNS. HE IS IMMORTALIZED IN BRONZE ON THE TOWN SQUARE.
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Ascension
YANKED BY ME 12/30/06.
Find Archer glass studio.
Like it says, “higher” and yeah, higher!
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Ava-Jay Ive-Jay
Never on Sunday.
Otway smells something wafting on the breeze; he looks in the direction of the imagined source.
A man of the sea, he knows the exotic cargoes that made it across the waters from the southern countries, including the dark beans that made goats dance so long ago across even bigger waters.
Starboard, inside, “I love coffee, I love tea! I love the java jive, and it loves me!”
Discreetly peer behind the basket for people who like to ruin a perfectly good cup of coffee.
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Fresher!
Saturday morning only, 8-12
UNAVAILABLE UNTIL SPRING OF 2008
Captain Burns gazes west, but you Curve southwest and find the squarish shades. At one end, the drinks door; a windowsill. (Be discreet.)
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A Present You Can Open Again and Again
Open some Wednesdays and Saturdays
Clodhop down below. To un-Booth these sky-colored female siblings, you must possess an excellent sense of humour!
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Paper of Pins (S) THIS BOX PERMANENTLY MIA - SORRY!
Toddle right and down ‘til you see the draped windows. Little boxes, on the hillside.....below and behind…
“I’ll give to you a paper of pins, for that’s the way that love begins, if you will marry, marry marry marry, if you’ll marry me!”
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George Booker (S)
MIA JAN 08
Toddle some more, and look behind another box below some tuneful things - no box here, just a bag...
George Booker was a fiddler who played Saturday night dances. He got himself in trouble and got locked up. But the people petitioned the High Sheriff to bring George to play so they could keep on dancing. This was the kind of place where the fellows had to go outside to relieve themselves. Well, people got so used to George – just like the rest of the fellas – going outside to relieve himself, that it shocked ‘em that, one night, he didn’t come back. His ballad is an old timey fiddle tune you can hear on the Smithsonian folk music website.
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Tea Bags
More toddling...last shop, under bench. (There are VERY cool logbooks here…and more great stuff! Definitely go inside!)
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Chopsticks
Cross-toddle-down. Pretty obvious. Up. Behind the middle.
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Because I Like Gorillas
Toddle back across to the left of Calvin Wheeler’s stump and up where the yodelers likely dwell. Walk up. You'll know it when you see it. (His name is Homer, but that's not what the mailbox says. And it's okay, he picks up his mail at the post office anyway, so it's all yours!)
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Rush Wray
Glendale takes you back to Academy; which takes you down to Walnut. Go. Smokehouse. Two bricks.
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No Man’s Wife (S) NOW PART OF ANOTHER SERIES.
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Old Grumbler (S) NOW PART OF ANOTHER SERIES
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URBAN TRAIL - EAST LOOP
(S)=Songcatcher Series
2B or Not 2B YANKED
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No. 78 – a micro-box MISSING
Wander down past the sad old outside rock stage, til school diesel yellow memories bring back those happy days. Below 78 a tiny rectangular magnet clings underneath…you’ll feel it…..
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Got Milk?
Consigned to the same fate as No. 78, a steel cow awaits the calves that will never come. Tucked into an empty rubber udder you will find a milky smile.
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Babes in the Woods (S) YANKED
Return to the intersection and toward the view, turning left. At the low rock building, the rightest yellow threaded cone tree hides something for you.
“My dear, do you know how a long time ago two poor little babies whose names I don’t know,
Were stolen away on a fine summer’s day, and left in the woods, so I’ve heard people say?”
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Dem Bones (S) MISSING
Continue on this street and it’ll turn right and go down. At the bottom, look across for the crunching doctor’s porch. The rightest of the three hollies hosts. Probe gently….
“Dem bones, dem bones goin’ to rise again! Dem bones, dem bones goin’ to rise again! Dem bones, dem bones goin’ to rise again! O, hear the word of the Lord!”
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Knitwit’s Nirvana
Sneak up on Otway. From the long hotel porch, drop down and left and look for an ivy spill next to a wall near a yummy place.
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Cass’ Secret MISSING
Across and up from nirvana, a pretty clapboard house has a secret hiding place LEFT under the porch. Feel free to use the porch to stamp up. Anybody asks, tell them Cass sent ya.
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HWY 80 Series - 3 Boxes
Bring the camera!
(S=Songcatcher Series)
1. OLD TOE BRIDGE – MIA APR 08 - poison ivy warning – keep the kiddies and dogs to the middle….
From US 19E between Spruce Pine and Burnsville, take Hwy 80 North. Go 3 miles. Just before the big bridge, you’ll see the EnergyXchange on the left. Park on the side of the old road between 80 and the drive to EnergyXchange , before the yellow bar. Walk in. After you walk across the bridge, keep right until you see a huge rock on the right. Check where the stems come from above left.
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2. END OF THE LINE – watch out for trains – they can actually sneak up on you here (not joking - mountains do funny things to sound!) Train spike collector’s paradise!
Keep walking. You’ll know it when you see it. Yup, at the end of the line…
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3. FRANKIE & JOHNNY (S) (major photo opp)
Part of the Songcatcher Series
Keep driving north on 80. Very winding, very, very pretty. Watch for the silo on your left. Then ½ mile, when vista opens up, catch right turn into church drive – on curve, so go gently. PLEASE RESPECT THIS PLACE.
“Frankie and Johnny were lovers,
Oh Lordy how they could love!
Swore to be true to each other,
True as the stars above.
He was her man,
But he was doing her wrong.”
Frankie Silver was allegedly the first woman hanged in NC, for the murder of her husband, Charlie. Most people thought it was self-defense, but back then, she wasn’t allowed to testify on her own behalf. She chopped him up, and tried to burn him in the fireplace. His body parts are buried in three separate graves in this cemetery.
Walk left of the quiet residents and look under the marker midst the stump-rubble.
Oh, and yeah, historians say the song is a Mississippi Delta blues number, but we claim it, and we’re sticking to it, even if his name wasn’t Johnny….
You may want to return to 19E. If you feel like just driving around, going farther north from here is a visual treat. You can always ask somebody for directions.....but if you turn left on 226 towards Red Hill, and left (south) on 197, you’ll end up back in Burnsville.
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4,338 AS OF JUNE 07 NOW THE FIRST BOX IN A SERIES
4-Wheel drive recommended. HIGHLY recommended, although I've done it in my '97 Cavalier coupe thrice now, with only some mud to show for it.
It is STEEP and it is NARROW and there are ROCKS and there are MUDHOLES and for most of it there is a STEEP DROPOFF on one side or the other. That said, the view is AWESOME! Better than Mt. Mitchell, IMHO.
VERY VERY IMPORTANT: It is generally accepted here that if two vehicles meet on a narrow road, the driver on the way down yields to the driver on the way up. There are places on this road that will be a challenge. Fortunately, there is not much traffic on the road.
ALSO GOOD TO KNOW, and only slightly less scary: This is quite the hangout for amorous teens. We found a used "balloon" when we were planting the box, sooooo - please keep your kiddies on a short leash, so to speak.
From the square, look up the road. All the way up. Way, way up. Higher than anything else around. Drive in that direction. When you reach the fork, take a right, winding up and up, and when you see the Phillips Knob dirt road to the right, take it. Watch your bottom! Go up til you can’t go up any more. Find the benchmark at the base of the tower, and look at the place you yourself might have thought to plant a box.
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12 More Miles
This is a short, beautiful hike with the usual outdoor hazards. Wear ankle-supporting boots; the trail is rocky. Carry water; the trail is up. Keep your dogs on a leash; there are neighbor dogs who will bark and possibly run out to check you out. This is a lush area; your feet could get wet and/or muddy, but mostly you can avoid it.
From Burnsville, drive about half a mile or so south on 197, watching for QUICK left turn onto Bolen’s Creek Rd.
Stay on Bolen’s creek road a coupla/three miles until the VERY sharp up-right turn. Pull over and park near the cemetery; please do NOT block the cemetery gates.
Walk back to Watershed. It’s private vehicle-wise, but this is the beginning of the trail.
It is 12 More Miles to Mount Mitchell from here. On foot. Takes two days for the average incredibly fit experienced hiker.
Hike up the drive and over the Creek – or, if you prefer, through it (the planks are old and scary-looking), and up.
When you notice a sloping path to the water, take it. Go beyond the huge round sentinel and up to a slanted rock which points to a perfect box place on the left where you will find 12 More Miles.
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Where Water Comes From
(Until I was about 17, I thought water came from faucets!)
Return to the trail and continue up til you see the second sloping path to the water. This is where half of Burnsville’s drinking water comes from; notice half the stream disappears beneath your feet. Press on over rocks til you see the knobby twins in front of an large squarish boulder. Yes, the cairn on top hides the prize BUT it is also the roof of a salamander’s house, so PLEASE be gentle! He may shimmy down far enough to check you out; don’t freak. Leave his leaf cover intact.
(S) = Songcatcher Series
BURNSVILLE WAS NAMED FOR SEA CAPTAIN OTWAY BURNS. HE IS IMMORTALIZED IN BRONZE ON THE TOWN SQUARE.
---------------------------------------------------
Ascension
YANKED BY ME 12/30/06.
Find Archer glass studio.
Like it says, “higher” and yeah, higher!
---------------------------------------------------------
Ava-Jay Ive-Jay
Never on Sunday.
Otway smells something wafting on the breeze; he looks in the direction of the imagined source.
A man of the sea, he knows the exotic cargoes that made it across the waters from the southern countries, including the dark beans that made goats dance so long ago across even bigger waters.
Starboard, inside, “I love coffee, I love tea! I love the java jive, and it loves me!”
Discreetly peer behind the basket for people who like to ruin a perfectly good cup of coffee.
---------------------------------------------------------
Fresher!
Saturday morning only, 8-12
UNAVAILABLE UNTIL SPRING OF 2008
Captain Burns gazes west, but you Curve southwest and find the squarish shades. At one end, the drinks door; a windowsill. (Be discreet.)
----------------------------------------------------------
A Present You Can Open Again and Again
Open some Wednesdays and Saturdays
Clodhop down below. To un-Booth these sky-colored female siblings, you must possess an excellent sense of humour!
----------------------------------------------------------
Paper of Pins (S) THIS BOX PERMANENTLY MIA - SORRY!
Toddle right and down ‘til you see the draped windows. Little boxes, on the hillside.....below and behind…
“I’ll give to you a paper of pins, for that’s the way that love begins, if you will marry, marry marry marry, if you’ll marry me!”
----------------------------------------------------------
George Booker (S)
MIA JAN 08
Toddle some more, and look behind another box below some tuneful things - no box here, just a bag...
George Booker was a fiddler who played Saturday night dances. He got himself in trouble and got locked up. But the people petitioned the High Sheriff to bring George to play so they could keep on dancing. This was the kind of place where the fellows had to go outside to relieve themselves. Well, people got so used to George – just like the rest of the fellas – going outside to relieve himself, that it shocked ‘em that, one night, he didn’t come back. His ballad is an old timey fiddle tune you can hear on the Smithsonian folk music website.
---------------------------------------------------------
Tea Bags
More toddling...last shop, under bench. (There are VERY cool logbooks here…and more great stuff! Definitely go inside!)
---------------------------------------------------------
Chopsticks
Cross-toddle-down. Pretty obvious. Up. Behind the middle.
----------------------------------------------------------
Because I Like Gorillas
Toddle back across to the left of Calvin Wheeler’s stump and up where the yodelers likely dwell. Walk up. You'll know it when you see it. (His name is Homer, but that's not what the mailbox says. And it's okay, he picks up his mail at the post office anyway, so it's all yours!)
---------------------------------------------------------
Rush Wray
Glendale takes you back to Academy; which takes you down to Walnut. Go. Smokehouse. Two bricks.
---------------------------------------------------------
No Man’s Wife (S) NOW PART OF ANOTHER SERIES.
---------------------------------------------------------
Old Grumbler (S) NOW PART OF ANOTHER SERIES
-----------------------------------------------------
URBAN TRAIL - EAST LOOP
(S)=Songcatcher Series
2B or Not 2B YANKED
---------------------------------------------------------
No. 78 – a micro-box MISSING
Wander down past the sad old outside rock stage, til school diesel yellow memories bring back those happy days. Below 78 a tiny rectangular magnet clings underneath…you’ll feel it…..
----------------------------------------------------------
Got Milk?
Consigned to the same fate as No. 78, a steel cow awaits the calves that will never come. Tucked into an empty rubber udder you will find a milky smile.
---------------------------------------------------------
Babes in the Woods (S) YANKED
Return to the intersection and toward the view, turning left. At the low rock building, the rightest yellow threaded cone tree hides something for you.
“My dear, do you know how a long time ago two poor little babies whose names I don’t know,
Were stolen away on a fine summer’s day, and left in the woods, so I’ve heard people say?”
--------------------------------------------------------
Dem Bones (S) MISSING
Continue on this street and it’ll turn right and go down. At the bottom, look across for the crunching doctor’s porch. The rightest of the three hollies hosts. Probe gently….
“Dem bones, dem bones goin’ to rise again! Dem bones, dem bones goin’ to rise again! Dem bones, dem bones goin’ to rise again! O, hear the word of the Lord!”
--------------------------------------------------------
Knitwit’s Nirvana
Sneak up on Otway. From the long hotel porch, drop down and left and look for an ivy spill next to a wall near a yummy place.
---------------------------------------------------------
Cass’ Secret MISSING
Across and up from nirvana, a pretty clapboard house has a secret hiding place LEFT under the porch. Feel free to use the porch to stamp up. Anybody asks, tell them Cass sent ya.
-------------------------------------------------------
HWY 80 Series - 3 Boxes
Bring the camera!
(S=Songcatcher Series)
1. OLD TOE BRIDGE – MIA APR 08 - poison ivy warning – keep the kiddies and dogs to the middle….
From US 19E between Spruce Pine and Burnsville, take Hwy 80 North. Go 3 miles. Just before the big bridge, you’ll see the EnergyXchange on the left. Park on the side of the old road between 80 and the drive to EnergyXchange , before the yellow bar. Walk in. After you walk across the bridge, keep right until you see a huge rock on the right. Check where the stems come from above left.
--------------------------------------------------------
2. END OF THE LINE – watch out for trains – they can actually sneak up on you here (not joking - mountains do funny things to sound!) Train spike collector’s paradise!
Keep walking. You’ll know it when you see it. Yup, at the end of the line…
---------------------------------------------------------
3. FRANKIE & JOHNNY (S) (major photo opp)
Part of the Songcatcher Series
Keep driving north on 80. Very winding, very, very pretty. Watch for the silo on your left. Then ½ mile, when vista opens up, catch right turn into church drive – on curve, so go gently. PLEASE RESPECT THIS PLACE.
“Frankie and Johnny were lovers,
Oh Lordy how they could love!
Swore to be true to each other,
True as the stars above.
He was her man,
But he was doing her wrong.”
Frankie Silver was allegedly the first woman hanged in NC, for the murder of her husband, Charlie. Most people thought it was self-defense, but back then, she wasn’t allowed to testify on her own behalf. She chopped him up, and tried to burn him in the fireplace. His body parts are buried in three separate graves in this cemetery.
Walk left of the quiet residents and look under the marker midst the stump-rubble.
Oh, and yeah, historians say the song is a Mississippi Delta blues number, but we claim it, and we’re sticking to it, even if his name wasn’t Johnny….
You may want to return to 19E. If you feel like just driving around, going farther north from here is a visual treat. You can always ask somebody for directions.....but if you turn left on 226 towards Red Hill, and left (south) on 197, you’ll end up back in Burnsville.
----------------------------------------------------------
4,338 AS OF JUNE 07 NOW THE FIRST BOX IN A SERIES
4-Wheel drive recommended. HIGHLY recommended, although I've done it in my '97 Cavalier coupe thrice now, with only some mud to show for it.
It is STEEP and it is NARROW and there are ROCKS and there are MUDHOLES and for most of it there is a STEEP DROPOFF on one side or the other. That said, the view is AWESOME! Better than Mt. Mitchell, IMHO.
VERY VERY IMPORTANT: It is generally accepted here that if two vehicles meet on a narrow road, the driver on the way down yields to the driver on the way up. There are places on this road that will be a challenge. Fortunately, there is not much traffic on the road.
ALSO GOOD TO KNOW, and only slightly less scary: This is quite the hangout for amorous teens. We found a used "balloon" when we were planting the box, sooooo - please keep your kiddies on a short leash, so to speak.
From the square, look up the road. All the way up. Way, way up. Higher than anything else around. Drive in that direction. When you reach the fork, take a right, winding up and up, and when you see the Phillips Knob dirt road to the right, take it. Watch your bottom! Go up til you can’t go up any more. Find the benchmark at the base of the tower, and look at the place you yourself might have thought to plant a box.
----------------------------------------------------------
12 More Miles
This is a short, beautiful hike with the usual outdoor hazards. Wear ankle-supporting boots; the trail is rocky. Carry water; the trail is up. Keep your dogs on a leash; there are neighbor dogs who will bark and possibly run out to check you out. This is a lush area; your feet could get wet and/or muddy, but mostly you can avoid it.
From Burnsville, drive about half a mile or so south on 197, watching for QUICK left turn onto Bolen’s Creek Rd.
Stay on Bolen’s creek road a coupla/three miles until the VERY sharp up-right turn. Pull over and park near the cemetery; please do NOT block the cemetery gates.
Walk back to Watershed. It’s private vehicle-wise, but this is the beginning of the trail.
It is 12 More Miles to Mount Mitchell from here. On foot. Takes two days for the average incredibly fit experienced hiker.
Hike up the drive and over the Creek – or, if you prefer, through it (the planks are old and scary-looking), and up.
When you notice a sloping path to the water, take it. Go beyond the huge round sentinel and up to a slanted rock which points to a perfect box place on the left where you will find 12 More Miles.
---------------------------------------------------------
Where Water Comes From
(Until I was about 17, I thought water came from faucets!)
Return to the trail and continue up til you see the second sloping path to the water. This is where half of Burnsville’s drinking water comes from; notice half the stream disappears beneath your feet. Press on over rocks til you see the knobby twins in front of an large squarish boulder. Yes, the cairn on top hides the prize BUT it is also the roof of a salamander’s house, so PLEASE be gentle! He may shimmy down far enough to check you out; don’t freak. Leave his leaf cover intact.