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Mt
Burnham
Mt. Burnham sits with an altitude of 8997 feet and is located
between
Mt. Baden-Powell and
Throop Peak.
"I know Burnham. He is a scout and hunter of
courage and ability, a man totally without fear, a sure shot and a
fighter. He is the ideal scout."
Teddy Roosevelt
"While he talks, there is not a thing that
misses his quick-roving eye, wether it is on the horizon or at his
feet."
Lord Baden-Powell
This is a note as written by an adversary. Both Major Burnham
and J.
Duquesne had orders to assassinate each other:
"To my friendly enemy, Major Frederick Russell Burnham, the
greatest scout of the world, whose eyes were that of an Empire. I
once craved the honor of killing him, but failing that, I extend my
heartiest admiration."
One warrior to another
While doing research on the name of this Mountain I found so
much more than I was expecting. It is extremely difficult to
summarize the life of Major Burnham on a cache page. I will include
a few paragraphs, but so much more can, and should be, learned by
further researching him. Major Burnham's life was rich with
American and World history.
Born 1861 - Died 1947
As an American scout, Burnham was also a frontiersman. His
training in tracking, stealth, marksmanship, woodcraft and
knowledge of guerilla tactics learned while fighting Indian wars of
the Southwest made Burnham invaluable to the British colonial
efforts in Southern Africa. As a boy growing up in the American Old
West, he learned these skills from Indian trackers, frontiersmen
and cowboys, so as a scout in Africa, Burnham was simply practicing
his art and applying it as a soldier.
As a military scout, Burnham would act alone or in small groups
to perform reconnaissance beyond lines to determine the location
and operational conduct of the enemy, live off the land, attack
only when objectives had been achieved and on occasion conduct
sniper-like assassinations.
Major Burnham met Lord Baden-Powell while leading him on a
patrol from June 12 to 14, 1896. While on this patrol, Burnham
planted the seed of scouting in Powell's mind. Burnham intensively
instructed Powell in the fundamentals of scouting. Burnham was an
admireable teacher and that adventure behind enemy lines changed
Powell's life. Suddenly, he realized that he had spent twenty years
in India studying the wrong Indians.
I have gathered this information from
sources on the net. I am not a historian and with any information
gathered from the net, there may, and will be
inacuracies.
The Cache
- The cache is an ammo can
- Contents are log book, pencil and basic trade items
Hint to find the cache. Please read because there is not a
picture.
- Descend peak towards cache coordinates
- Look for two pine trees about twenty feet tall
- The nearest pine is a single, the other one is a twin growing
as a "V" from the base
- Behind the two pines is an old dead tree on the ground laying
in a general north-south direction
- Look at the ground between the two pines, there is a rock
outcropping
- The cache is in the rock outcropping covered with old sheets of
pine bark
- Please replace as found, thank you