 Flying Monkey Mesa
A cache by CodyC Hidden: 3/30/2001
Size:  (Not chosen) Difficulty:  Terrain:  (1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)
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Off the beaten path, but can be driven to. Cache is on top of the
mesa hidden in a huge pile of boulders that are each about as big
as a car. Cach has some new kids toys in it.
Cache is named after the US Army test track just west of it. This
is Hurricane Mesa where they built and tested ejection seats for
jets back in the 40's and 50's. They shot the seat down a
rocketsled track with a monkey strapped into it. Then they shot him
off over the edge of the mesa! In places it's over 1000' ft down!
The army still has a presence here and they are serious about the
no trespassing signs. DON'T GO IN THERE!
I swear that the road up here is the one that they used for all
of the roadrunner and coyote cartoons. It's asphalted most of the
way, but very narrow and cut right into the cliff face! My wife
says she'll never go up again.
The cache is in the huge boulders when you get here. While
you're here look all around on the flats and in the little natural
drainages for petrified wood. This spot is world reknowned for it
and some of it is gem quality.
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)
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Flying Monkey Mesa
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 August 29, 2009 by flyingmoose (1903 found)
The views on the way up and the way down were sweet. On top Ridgeseeker and I had fun checking out the fire to our northwest and walking through the woods to get to the cache. We ended up above the cache and took what we thought to be the safe way down. I thought Ridgeseeker was going to tumble at one point and myself at another but we both got down okay and then made our way to the cache. This was fun! On our way back Ridgeseeker took a bunch of photos of the plants while I just enjoyed the breeze. Thanks for the cool cache with the super cool history! I also dropped Flyingmoose Geocoin #025.
flyingmoose
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August 29, 2009 by Ridgeseeker and Suzaru (240 found)
Had a great time finding the route to this one with flyingmoose. The road is lots of fun, what a view!
We came into the final GZ the hard way, and I bent a hiking pole sliding down the gravel bank.
It's a good hiding spot. The cache was in good shape. I left some Alaska swag and the Thanks for the Memory TB, which I picked up at the summit of Mt. Whitney.
Thanks for bringing us up here; this is what caching is all about!
Ridgeseeker, from Seward, Alaska.
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June 7, 2009 by C. More Cache (1424 found)
Been wanting to hunt for this one for a while and decided it was time to look. tftc!
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May 29, 2009 by pablo13 (2736 found)
This has been on my to get list ever since I first started caching but I just never seemed to get around to it---untill today. Now it has been had--by me. Those little bity nats almost ate us alive but I wasn't leaving untill my name was on that log. Thanks for the hide
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May 29, 2009 by firstclass45 (2283 found)
Wow, the nats sure were out and biting while looking for this one today. Neat area. Thanks for the hide.
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Current Time: 2/9/2010 5:39:04 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) (1:39 AM GMT)
Last Updated: 10/22/2009 9:54:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time (4:54 PM GMT)
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Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum
