This one's for Jill Traditional Geocache
LavaLizard: As there's been no cache to find for months, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.
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A small and insignificant cache left in Memory of a very significant lady… Jill Swift.
A petite lady filled with boundless energy, and enthusistism, and a love for the Santa Monica Mountains that she could draw scores of urbanites for their first wild into the wild and leave them thirsting for more at the end. She would share her vast knowledge of the flora and fauna in a way that you felt like a budding naturalist by the end of the day. Her love for the world outside your front doors was so infectious that it’s affects will be felt for generations.
Jill was probably better known for her efforts to preserve open spaces in the Santa Monica Mountains, and almost more important, the public’s access to them. She was among a core group of people whose ceaseless work was instrumental in leading President Carter to authorize the Santa Monica Mountain Recreation Area.
Her personal ability to mobilize, motivate and educate thousands to help save dirt Mulholland, and Caballero canyon from development and showed how environmental groups could organize and use grassroots campaigns effectively. She was the epitome and personification of “think global, act local”.
One of my favorite hikes of hers started with our parents dropping off, my scouting buddies and I, somewhere in the valley, and ending the day on PCH. It was very long and popular hike, and we called it, the march of the Lemmings.
Though not on that trail, It is with fond memories of these times that I leave this small hide dedicated to Jill, and to all of you cachers, trail workers, advocates and scout leaders, who devote so much of yourselves keeping nature close and accessible to the next generation.
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