Glass Mountains or Gloss Mountains? Traditional Cache
Glass Mountains or Gloss Mountains?
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Glass Mountains or Gloss Mountains?
In February 1873 the name Glass Mountains appeared on a map issued by the Federal General Land Office. Two years later the same office issued another map calling them Gloss Mountains, thus precipitating a conflict that continues to this day. The 1875 map resulted from a survey led by an engineer named T. H. Barrett. Historiographer James Cloud is of the opinion that a draftsman copied this map and misread the "A" for an "O". A persistent legend exists that a member of that first exploring party was a British or Bostonian. This member awakened early one morning in the survey camp on the knoll east of this mesa and saw the sun on the glistening clear crystals of selenite. In his long eastern dilect he exclaimed: "They look just like glaws!" Thence, the party's cartographer simpley wrote down what he thought he had heard. Glass Mountains or Gloss Mountains? You decide. Bring your camera and spend some time here but remember that this is ratlesnake country. Cache is a "log only" cache so bring something to write with. I gave this a 3.5 on terrain because of the climb and hike.
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