O. T. Series: Bluffs Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 4/20/2010
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Oregon Trail Series:
Bluffs

Thousands of emigrants
crossed southwestern Idaho between
1843 and 1870 on their way to the Willamette River valley in
Oregon.

With their possessions loaded in wagons pulled by oxen, they struggled across the dusty sagebrush-covered desert in search of a new home and a better life. The Idaho desert proved to be some of the most dangerous and difficult travel that they
endured.

After crossing the Snake River, emigrants climbed out of the Snake River canyon and up the bluffs. Ruts are still visible climbing the side of a gully to the top of the mesa.
This is a good area for hiking.



Thur Aug 14 ...We had a squally time ascending the bluffs, which are several hundred feet high. We passed from a hill to the side of a bluff, upon a high narrow ridge of just sufficient width upon the top for the wagon road, the sides descending very steep each way. Just as the wagons were upon this a gale of wind in advance of a thunder shower struck us, and blew with such violence directly across the track that it seemed as if the wagons, teams and all would be blown away.

James Field, 1845

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