[Cdt-l] Fwd: cache box's bootheel

[ks1007 at aol.com]

when I picked up my friend Li Brannfor's at CC we had 6 vehicle's intercept us with 7 agents right near the pavement - one had stayed back on the dirt road with a spike strip just in case we turned around and headed back to the  border
re: sam hughes - yes he is getting old and I don't know how many more years he can make the trip - he does use the $$ he gets from hikers to live on - if he does quit I may have someone else to do it



 
Keith and Mary
Trail Angels
Deming, NM



-----Original Message-----
From: PeekTrekker4 <PeekTrekker4 at aol.com>
To: cdt-l <cdt-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Mon, Mar 19, 2012 9:39 am
Subject: Re: [Cdt-l] cache box's bootheel


    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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