Antelope Hill Traditional Cache
Geek & Sweet: Archiving to make room for a fresh cache
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This a quick grab only 75 yards from the road. Cache consists a log and pencil. Cache is on the side of a hill and thus GPS signal bounces around a bit - take a look at the image "Its Under Here"
Antelope Hill is geographically unique to the region - composed of hard course grained sandstone that is ideal for grinding tools.
Archaeloogical evidence indicates the hill has been used for thousands of years.
The side of the road (by the BLM kiosk on the north side of Antelope Hill) has a steel cable barrier with blue signage indicating an archeological site.
There appears to be many faint trails on the slopes of Antelope Hill, each leading to a petroglyph site. Keep your eyes open, almost every boulder with black desert varnish has rock art on it!
This site is now owned by the Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District has been quarried extensively to produce rip-rap to armor the banks of the Gila River. Unfortunately the cultural value of this section has been destroyed.
From Old Hwy 80 or Hwy 8, take 36E
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Purpx bhg gur vzntr pnyyrq Vgf Haqre Urer.