Hunter Jimmie D sent this in and said I could share. Thanks Jimmie, great story!

Who doesn't like the search for hidden treasure, as day three dawned I eagerly awaited the closing of the circle, the live view as daylight slowly crept in.

An idea hit me about a complex mathematical equation and I set to work calculating the center of the slowly closing circle.

When all was said and done I was looking at a set of coordinates, could it be? The actual location was a place well known to me, infact I had proposed to my wife at this very same spot many moons ago.

The coordinates... Latitude: 35.7670°N Longitude: 82.4160 W..... the location fit the bill, public land, off of a hiking trail.

We gassed up the car, grabbed some water and headed across Western North Carolina on quite the adventure.

We were off to the Coleman Boundary, home to multiple water falls, the occasional open view to wonderful mountain views and notably Douglas Falls, where a few movie shots from last of the Mohicans were filmed, and where many years ago the army would hold specialized training on the mountain.

We arrived at the gate at the base of the mountain and it was closed and locked with an official barricade barring entry… best guess since the hurricane.

I plugged in the gps location from there and it back tracked us to another public county road that soon narrowed as we approached higher on the mountain, and not to far from the end of our destination we were stopped by and irritated local and although we were on a marked public roadway we were assured by the local that we were in fact trespassing and un welcome.....

So my math may not be math'n but it made for a spectacular day out and returned my wife and I to where we began so many years ago.

Tomorrow is a new day, and I'll replace the batteries in my calculator and try again.

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