Pulaski Trail Traditional Cache
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National registry of historic places located on Moon Pass 1/2 mile
south of Wallace, Idaho
Ed Pulaski may be best known for the firefighting tool he invented,
a cross between an ax and a hoe that bears his name and . still is
used in firefighting today. But Pulaski's heroics during the 1910
wildfIres that devastated the forests of North Idaho, Eastern
Washington and Montana tell an even more compelling story, one -
that Silver Valley residents hope will draw tourists and others to
a historic site, trail and interpretive center. Long before he
invented the handy tool that kept forest fire-fighters from having
to carry both an ax and a hoe, Pulaski was a Forest Service ranger
in Wallace in August 1910 when the woods exploded into a fIrestorm,
trapping 1,800 firefighters between Wallace and Avery. Drawing on
his knowledge of the area, Pulaski led his 45-man crew to safety in
an abandoned mine, now known as the Pulaski Tunnel. There, they lay
face down through a suffocating night of smoke and heat. Their
leader kept some from panicking and heading outside to certain
death with the end of his pistol. He beat, out flaming timbers at
the mine's entrance with horse blankets and mine water he gathered
in his hat. Though the whole group lost consciousness during that
night, including Pulaski, nearly all survived, and crawled back
through the smoking, charred woods to Wallace in the morning.
The difficulty is rated higher since the Pulaski Trail is a 2 mile
long trail. This is only a micro with only a pencil and log at this
time in hopes to change it to a regular container sometime in the
future. There is ongoing work around the cache location but the
point of the cache will not change.
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