The (Nearly) Dead Man's Curve Traditional Geocache
Nomex: The cache owner is not responding to issues with this geocache, so I must regretfully archive it.
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The (Nearly) Dead Man's Curve
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This should be an easy drive-by once you figure out how to get into the area. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO REACH THIS CACHE FROM SOSCOL AVENUE -- THE MAIN ROUTE HERE.
There is a tale behind this cache!
Back on the night of August 16-17, 1964 most of this area was empty land with the part closer to the river occupied by Kaiser Steel, the precursor to Kaiser Pipe and then Napa Pipe. Current Californians tend to think of the Kaiser name in connection with health care and forget that Henry J. Kaiser was one of the pioneering industrialists of the first half of the twentieth century. He started out with roadbuilding, branched into the sand and gravel business and got into ship building during WWII. His shipyard holds the record for completing a Liberty ship (the workhorse transport of the war) in just four days from laying the keel to launch. That led him into the steel business which led to this site. (Kaiser Permanente is another of his ideas designed to provide care for his employees.) He also built some pretty good cars in the 1940s and 1950s and bought out the Willy's Company and built the famous Jeep during the Korean War.
On that night I was courting a living doll and doing pretty much what all 20 year olds do under those circumstances -- pushing my luck in the sleep department. (She, incidentally, has just gotten brighter, smarter, sweeter and prettier in the intervening years. More on that later.)
Late that Saturday night as I was heading back to Angwin I fell asleep while driving northbound on Soscol. I failed to make the right hand curve, bounced onto and across the southbound lanes without hitting any of the oncoming traffic and wound up down the bank in a field pretty near this spot as I recall. When the tow truck went to pull out the car a couple of the wheels fell off.
After getting some much needed help from passing motorists I made it to the emergency room where they stitched up a cut over my eye and one on my cheek -- that windshield was hard! We got married the next weekend with me having a shiner.
So this is my tribute to good luck, to a fabulous wife, to persistence and hard work and to the added fun we've discovered in geocaching.
10/15/08 -- Okay. In respect for our "premium caching" friends and their observations, we're bucking the difficulty rating on this one up to a three star.
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