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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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<DIV>Trekker</DIV>
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