Carrizo Gorge - Goat Canyon Trestle Traditional Cache
High Tech Hobo: It is with sadness that I archive this cache. I don't know whether the cache has been removed by someone, or if mother nature has concealed the cache beneath boulders. Hopefully Submariner and Cajon Kev will make one more recon mission and it will miraculously appear.
Carrizo Gorge - Goat Canyon Trestle
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The cache is located among some large boulders in Carrizo Gorge at the end of the Mortero Palms trail to Goat Canyon Trestle.
Nine years ago, we hiked to Goat Canyon Trestle. This year's was sort of a "reunion" hike, although a couple of the original members couldn't make it because of the recent fires in So. Calif. We hiked our original route along the tracks of the SD&AE RR from the Dos Cabezas station. A high clearance, 4WD vehicle is recommended to get from Imperial Highway to Dos Cabezas or Mortero Palms trailhead. The hike from Dos Cabezas to the trestle is about 7.4 mi., although you can cut a couple of miles off that by driving further along the track. It may not be possible to hike along the track for very much longer, as the track rights are now owned by the Carrizo Gorge Railway, Inc., and they are in the last stages of clearing tunnels, and expect to be running freight by the end of the year. We were told by a rep of the RR who happened to be at the trestle that they have chartered a RR police force with the State of California. However, it is possible to get to the cache via the Mortero Palms Trail. The trail marker for Mortero Palms is at N32 Deg. 32.175 W116 Deg. 08.816. We have not hiked the Mortero Palms trail. It is also possible to follow the SD&AE tracks to the trestle from Arsenic Spring near the Jucumba offramp on Interstate 8.
The cache is in a 50mm ammo box and is nestled among some large boulders. It is partially visible, but there are a lot of boulders out there. This spot affords a spectacular view of the backside of the trestle.
Although it is possible to hike in and out the same day, we suggest that you plan on spending the night. The night we were there was very pleasant, temperature-wise, and the moon was so full and bright that flashlights were not necessary. We do not recommend hiking this area in the middle of summer. It gets VERY hot out there.
The original cache contained:
- A brand new deck of Bicycle playing cards.
- A Kodak Fun Saver Camera. If you visit the cache, please take a photograph of your party and put the camera back. If you take the last picture, please let me know and I will retrieve the camera, and process and post the pictures.
- 5 audio CDs of my radio program, "Rapidly Rotating Records", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6 on KISL-FM, Avalon and available "on demand" on the internet at www.RadioFreeWorld.com. It features "toe-tapping music of the 1920s and 30s"
- A roll of "Save Mono Lake" stickers.
- A brand new, unused, bandana
- A tiny edition of "Wisdom from 'The Road Less Traveled'" by M. Scott Peck
- A purple bingo dauber
- A white LED light keychain (very cool!)
- Catalina Sea Camp swim fin keychain
- A fake Swiss Army knife
- An American Motorcycling Assn., Region 2 lapel pin
- A "Proud to be Pru" agent lapel pin
- 2 passes to the Improv
- A Canadian quarter
- A pair of gold collar stays (for the well dressed hiker)
- A Bic lighter
- Michael Crichton's new novel "Timeline"
- A buffet sized can of VanKamp's pork & Beans complete with spoon.
As this is the first cache I have placed I am very eager to see the feedback. Best wishes for safe and pleasant hiking.
High Tech Hobo
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