Snowslide 1911 Traditional Geocache
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A place of rest since 1911.
In 1880, Bodie was surpassed in population by only one other city in the western US. Just over a decade later, it was one of the first US cities to receive electrical power generation from a remote hydroelectrical station. In 1911, one of the stations was located on Mill Creek near the mouth of Lundy Canyon. It was called Jordan.
During the winter night of March 7, 1911, avalanches swept down the mountain above Jordan. At the Lundy facility, one person died. At Mill Creek's Jordan facility, several people died, but one woman survived for 2 days to be discovered by crews from Bodie investigating their lights going out. The victims were buried at a ranch, one mile to the north.
The best account of this forgotten story is in High Sierra SUV Trails: East Side, by Roger Mitchell, and it can be found at the Mono Lake Visitor Center.
The cache is an ammo can, respectfully placed outside the perimeter. The 2 access routes are flat firm dirt tracks, perhaps unsuited to low clearance vehicles (YMMV): ~1.3 miles from the end of Mill Creek Power Road or 0.7 mile from Highway 395 from the east. For the later, the waypoint for the unmarked entrance is N38 03.287, W119 09.942 (opposite orange windsock, 2005); use caution in turning down the embankment from the high speed highway. In winter, snow will cover the ground at times, and snow travel equipment will be necessary.
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