Hermit Home Traditional Cache
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A home made by a Hermit of past times. When you enter you’ll
see three separate rooms along with a kitchen area complete with a
small window and multiple closets. What a wonderful place this must
have been when the hermit that made it still lived here.
home made by a Hermit of past times. When you enter you’ll
see three separate rooms along with a kitchen area complete with a
small window and multiple closets. What a wonderful place this must
have been when the hermit that made it still lived here. As oldsage
said to me, “The legend is much more romantic than the
reality.” That is definitely true but many thanks to him
anyway for the following information. And many, many thanks to
David Crockett for the history and the picture!!! Without your help
we would all still be making up stories. Following is the real
story of the Hermit Home and how it came to pass: Lou Domrose (The
hermit’s cave) by David Crockett. Lou Domrose was my second
cousin; his mother and my grandmother (Carrie Hansen Crockett) were
sisters. Lou’s mother died when he was quite young and he did
not get along well with his new stepmother, consequently he spent a
lot of time as a child in my grandmother’s home. He did farm
and ranch work off and on during his life, but not long term. He
liked to live alone, sometimes camping in a lean-to shelter for
months. He would just “live off the land.” He liked to
fish and hunt. In later years he shot several deer with a bow. He
sometimes tanned buckskin and made clothes with it, all hand sewn.
He preserved meat, rarely wasting any part of a deer. Lou would
bottle deer bones and fat for “soup stock,” to be used
in winter. Lou dried fruits and made jelly from berries and rose
hips. Extremely frugal, he did not spend much money for anything.
For years he lived in a tiny trailer house behind my
grandma’s home. I heard him tell my dad once he wanted to
irrigate and do a little farm work till he had earned $600.
That’s all he wanted for the whole year – so he
wouldn’t have to file income tax. He lived in Nevada quite a
while mining for gold. In this occupation he gained a lot of
experience digging holes, though he never found much gold. His home
there was a dugout in the ground. When in his fifties he started
digging the home now called the “hermits cave”, just ¼
mile west of my mailbox on Rock Creek Road. It took about three
years with pick and shovel to get it ready to move in (that’s
just a few hours of work per day). At least once a day Lou walked
to my grandma’s house, watched a little TV, sometimes took a
bath, and then carried a canteen full of water to his cave. He
raised a small garden near Grandma’s house – the year
he died, he had raised one big tobacco plant, since he liked to
chew and hated spending money. In the doorway to the cave he had a
small screen covered hole in the sidewall for keeping fresh
vegetables. I visited Lou a number of times in his cave home. Each
time I visited, Lou would show me some new additions. Lou Domrose
passed away in 1966, after living in his cave for approximately
five years. He is buried in the Pioneers Cemetery on Rock Creek
Road approximately 6 miles South of Hansen. When you enter make
sure you have a flashlight to explore the whole place. Also, when I
placed the cache I didn’t encounter the new
“family” that now lives here. I have seen them in past
years but thought they had long since left. Please respect them and
leave them alone. They have a nest in the back room and I believe
they are quite used to “visitors” so as long as you
leave them alone and give them some distance they will leave you
alone and we can all enjoy this treasure. I have been coming here
for years and thought that it was time to share this unique area.
The cache is far enough away from the home so you should be able to
find it without attracting too much attention when other people are
at the home. Please keep this in mind; the life of the cache
directly relates to how well you can hide it to make it look as
natural as possible with the surrounding area. If you make a
wonderful U.R.P. it won’t last long. Please hide it as well
as you can and make it look as natural as you can. The cache is the
location, the physical cache continues to be stolen, you can log
this with or with out a pic. The area has been fenced for cattle so
be sure to shut the gate..It’s not a bad hike, except when
it’s 100+ degrees out, or raining, or snowing, or freezing,
or your being chased by local law enforcement for that silly little
joke that involved…um…never mind, enjoy and be safe!
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