In November 1981, 2 days before Thanksgiving about 11 miles down
the road to the north Grump was working on an oil rig. A snowstorm
came in a few hours before shift change. The relief crew made it in
but by the time Grump's crew was ready to leave it had gotten
pretty bad. They got about 1/2 mile out the rig road when they
encountered a cow halfway blocking the road. Grump had the choice
to drive into a bar ditch or hit the cow. So the story goes they
went into the bar ditch, ended up walking back to the rig and that
is where 10 guys stayed for the next 48 hours. They ran out of
food, cigarettes and drinks.
On the third day a ranch hand who had been in checking on the
cattle got up to the rig and found out that everyone was stuck. He
offered to take them to the highway where someone could come and
pick them up once he was finished with his chores. They all
scrapped together $10 for him to call me, and to take them to the
highway. Before going my brother and I went to McDonalds and K-Fry
and bought tons of hamburgers, chicken, cigarettes and sodas.
Luckily for me I borrowed my mom's van, (brother drove) and off we
went. Finally as we were getting close to the turn we could see the
guys all waving and cheering when they saw us. That was one happy,
tired and hungry crew. I remember them all sitting around the back
table and on the floor just shoveling food and joking all the way
home. Thanksgiving was late but well appreciated that year.
Now for the info. I have on the old Caprock Church that used to
be at this location. We're not sure exactly when but we believe it
was moved to Duncan, NM. At the time that it was here, it was my
land-mark for finding the road that we had to turn at. The only
thing left there now is a large parking area where you can pull
over and take a break and some left over shrubs. Look to the north
of the parking area and most days you can see a fairly large herd
of antelope.They certainly don't seem to be disturbed by all of the
traffic that goes by.
The cache shouldn't be too hard to find. Some muggles at times,
mostly the ones driving by. Thanks for stopping. S&G 