[Cdt-l] cache box's bootheel

[PeekTrekker4 at aol.com]

There are 5 cache boxes on the route from Crazy  Cook to Lordsburg:;from S 
to N: #1 is just off the dirt  road to Crazy Cook, about halfway down the 
unpaved road, at Sheridan Cyn;  #2 is near the NM-81 crossing; #3 is near the  
NM-9 crossing; #4 is near the NM-113 crossing; and  #5 is at unpaved Animas 
Rd going into Lordsburg. 
    In '10 Sam Hughes was keeping a 6-gl, blue, plastic  jug in Caches 1-3; 
he's probably still doing that, but I don't  know for sure. Don't expect 
him to drive you to 3-5 without  offering him extra $; they are all out of his 
way, off to well off the direct  route to CC. And don't gripe about the 
$100 to drive you to CC; it's 6 hours of  his time, gas, & beating his vehicle 
up on 60 miles of rough road;  tip him on top of that! 
    I wonder what will happen when Sam can't do this  anymore. For future 
hikers I hope someone in Hachita picks up being an Angel;  however, there are 
only a handful of people in Hachita, so the CC Route may  suddenly get 30 
miles longer. 
    Maybe the Border Patrol will pick up the slack!  When I drove Tika & 
San Gabriel from ADZPCTKO to CC in '09, 1 BP Agent in 1  vehicle showed up for 
2 hiker vehicles and 5 hikers. When Sam drove me down  in '10, 8 BP Agents 
in 5 vehicles showed up for 1 vehicle and 1 hiker; I guess  the Aliens from 
the NM UFOs were having a slow day. In '10 when I walked away  from the 
large gathering that came to see me off, all by myself, I said, "I  appreciate 
all'a y'all coming to my going away party at taxpayer expense."
 
    I'm off to the southern 3/8 of the AZT with Loon  beginning 5 Apr. In 
this average to below average snow year, finally, I  hope to continue 
southbound on the CDT from Lincoln MT/Stemple Pass in  mid-May, and then finish the 
PCT from Trout Lake WA to Canada in Aug. Loon  may join me for some of the 
CDT. He knows a lot of hikers; we walked into  a Whole Foods in Albuquerque 
last summer, and working a register was  Pigpen, whom Loon had met on the 
PCT. They immediately called each other by  trail name. 
 
Trekker

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