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<div><STRONG>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</STRONG></div>
<div><STRONG>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</STRONG><br>
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From: PeekTrekker4 <PeekTrekker4@aol.com><br>
To: cdt-l <cdt-l@backcountry.net><br>
Sent: Mon, Mar 19, 2012 9:39 am<br>
Subject: Re: [Cdt-l] cache box's bootheel<br>
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<div> There are 5 cache boxes on the route from Crazy Cook to Lordsburg:;from S to N: #<STRONG>1</STRONG> is just off the dirt road to Crazy Cook, about halfway down the unpaved road, at Sheridan Cyn; #<STRONG>2 </STRONG>is near the NM-81 crossing; <STRONG>#3</STRONG> is near the NM-9 crossing; #<STRONG>4</STRONG> is near the NM-113 crossing; and #<STRONG>5</STRONG> is at unpaved Animas Rd going into Lordsburg. </div>
<div> In '10 Sam Hughes was keeping a 6-gl, blue, plastic jug in <STRONG>Caches 1-3</STRONG>; he's probably still doing that, but I don't know for sure. Don't expect him to drive you to <STRONG>3-5</STRONG> 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; <STRONG>tip him on top of that!</STRONG> </div>
<div> 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. </div>
<div> 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."</div>
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<div> I'm off to the southern 3/8 of the AZT with Loon beginning 5 Apr. In this average to below average snow year, <EM>finally</EM>, 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. </div>
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