Mapachi's Wild Bunch Cache Mystery Cache
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Mapachi's Wild Bunch Cache
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This is an ammo box hidden at:
N 44 20.ABC
W 069 47.DEF
The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch is my favorite movie. It was directed by Sam
Peckinpaugh
and it stars William Holden as Pike,
Ernest Borgnine as Dutch, Robert Ryan as Deke, Ben Johnson as
Lyle,
Warren Oates as Tector, Edmund O’Brian as Sykes, Jammie
Sanchez
as Angel and Emillio Fernandez as Mapachi.
I saw it for the first time on it’s original release in
1969,
while I was in the Army in Germany. I loved the movie then,
for
it’s shear shock value. Now that I have watched this movie at
least
thirty times, (No kidding, Thirty times!) I have come to
appreciate
this movie on several much deeper levels.
wildbunchpike has been my e-mail address for the past ten
years.
(Pike is the main character) Mapachi (the bad guy) is my
Geocaching
“name”. Now that I am forty years older I find myself
strangely
relating to the film.
Unchanged men in a changing land...Out of step, out of place,
and
desperately out of time.
Outlaws on the Mexican-U.S. frontier face the march of
progress,
the Mexican army and a gang of bounty hunters led by a former
member while they plan a robbery of a U.S. army train. No one
is
innocent in this gritty tale of of desperation against
changing
times. Pump shotguns, machine guns and automobiles mix with
horses
and winchesters in this ultraviolent western.
A few months before World War I, an aging band of outlaws led
by
Pike Bishop rob a Texas bank intent on using the money to
retire.
When the robbery goes wrong, the gang is forced to flee to
Mexico
with Bishop's reformed ex-partner, Deke Thornton, in hot
pursuit.
With nothing to show for the failed robbery, Bishop's gang
agrees
to steal a shipment of guns for General "Mapachi" Juerta, to
restore their fortunes. With Thornton closing in, and their
association with the evil Juerta trying their conscience,
Bishop
and co. prepare for their lawless past to catch up with them.
Supposedly, more blank rounds were discharged during the
production
than live rounds were fired during the Mexican Revolution of
1914
around which the film is loosely based. In total 90,000 rounds
were
fired, all blanks.
In 1999, the film was selected for preservation in the United
States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as
being
"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The
film
was ranked No. 80 in the American Film Institute's top 100 list
of
the greatest American films ever made. The Wild Bunch was
recognized as the sixth best film in the western genre.
In the movie Mapachi takes Angel, a member of the Wild Bunch,
prisoner and tortures him. The Wild Bunch goes to get him back
from
Mapachi and……well; watch the movie.
In the Geocache version of the movie Deke Thornton, who used to
be
with the Wild Bunch, joins them again to get Angel back from
Mapachi.
To find Mapachi and save Angel, you must find the final part of
the
coordinates, which are hidden in and on the following caches:
Pike Bishop = A
Deke Thornton = B
Freddie Sykes = C
Dutch Engstrom = D
Lyle Gorch = E
Tector Gorch = F
Each container is a film cannister with the name of the cache and
the corresponding coordinate number written on the top, on the
outside and on the log inside.
Once you have found them all you should be able to find
Mapachi’s
Wild Bunch Cache.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Congratulations to DUBORD207 for a FTF....(cvar gerr)