NOTICE Oct 2019: This cache is scheduled to be archived during or shortly after August, 2020.
NOTICE Aug 2018: Over the next two or three years I will be archiving all my hides. Age and health may not allow me to continue giving proper support for my cache hides and I do not wish to leave them in limbo after I am unable to continue. I am older and slower and will be approaching my mid 70's. I plan no new hides. As my existing caches go missing or are damaged those hides will be archived. Otherwise, all my hides are open for adoption to do with as one pleases. If you would like to adopt this or other of my hides then please contact me. I will not be archiving healthy caches for at least another year or so.
On May 1, 1906, just thirteen days after the great 1906 earthquake that struck San Francisco, one of the greatest land slides in California history blocked the flowing of Crack and Cache Creeks near the lower end of Kennedy Flats where the river narrows at the foot of Baldy Mountain. Residents of Rumsey noticed Cache Creek all but dried up and they began to fear the worst with most taking to the hills. But a few brave men took their mules and headed upstream to determine the cause. After two days only one solitary journalist made it to the slide. He found that it had completely blocked Cache Creek. The landslide was discovered to be one hundred feet high and five hundred feet wide on top. This created a lake four miles long. The locals were warned and after five days the creek broke the dam. Rumsey was devastated but no one was killed nor injured.
There's not much left of the landslide debris to see today but it is thought that this cache is hidden at or near that landslide event. You only have to hike about 6.3 mile hike from Hwy 20 down fire roads and through electric fence gates to get to the cache. The rolling hills part of the hike ends at the county line where you'll go through one last electric fence. After that you'll need to drop down 800 feet on a wide trail to Cache Creek where a cache can be found. This would be a great spot to clean the cow patties off your hiking boots. You might also meet up with a big bear. Fresh scat was spotted and many bear tracks were observed while in the creek area but the bear kept to himself.
Enjoy the view, have lunch then hike back UP 800 feet to the top of the ridge. Oh yes, then there's that long 6.3 mile hike back to Hwy 20.