Monkey's Flightline Traditional Cache
NCad: They've moved the fences so we'll archive this. But we'll look for a suitable location nearby and perhaps bring back this classic hide.
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This is another DevildogLT memorial cache made possible by his recent donation of one thousand ammo cans to the North San Diego County geocaching community. This is one of a number of similar geocaches widely published on the day after Thanksgiving 2009, aka Black Friday.
This area, long known as "Flightline", is commonly thought to be called that because it lies under the path of aircraft flying into and out of McClellan-Palomar Airport to the west. This is false. The truth is much more interesting.
In 1938 Victor Fleming was having a terrible time working out the physics of the flying monkeys for his movie "The Wizard of Oz". He was on the verge of deleting the sequence altogether. By happenstance, during that period, he spent a weekend decompressing at his friend Leo Carrillo's recently purchased ranch in what is now Carlsbad. (You probably remember it as the "Rancho de Los Kiotes".) Fleming mentioned to Carrillo that he desperately needed a large open space to test his prototype flying monkeys. In response, Leo pointed to the north and suggested that the perfect spot was just over the next hill, a vast open area as yet unencumbered by civilization.
The following morning the pair rode horses to the site and Victor instantly realized that this was indeed the perfect spot. He moved his monkeys, handlers, engineers, artisans, and flaks to this location the next week and within a month had perfected the art of monkey flight. The rest is history. If you watch the movie closely you can see on the edges of the matte paintings the faint outlines of what you know today as the Flightline. All thanks to Leo Carrillo and the monkeys.
[This is also close to the site of the old "Vista del Smokestack" cache (GCG40D) which some claim can still be found!]
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Additional Hints
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Bss gur znva genvy 20-30 srrg, onpx va fbzr oehfu.
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