Soon after the advent of the stagecoach the art of stagecoach
robbery began. Stagecoach robbers, commonly known as highwaymen,
thrived in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In
an age when traveling overland was already hazardous due to bad
roads, no one rode without fear of being robbed. The legend the
highwayman is that of a gentelman thief. With his greating of
"stand and deliver," or "your money or your life," he used threats
rather than violence. By the nineteenth century highwaymen were out
in full force in the American west. Famous California highway men
included Black Bart and Joaquin Murrieta.
The cache is located on and old stagecoach road connecting the
Salinas Valley with San Juan Bautista. The trail is officialy
called the Juan Bautista de Anza National Trail. It is open to
hikers, bikers and horseback riders. The cache is not far from the
summit where there is a bench to rest and catch your breath. While
you are here you may as well continue a short way beyond the summit
and find GC71D7.
There is an unactivated geocoin as a prize for the FTF.