"Dr. Sarvis with his bald mottled dome and savage visage, grim and noble as Sibelius, was out night-riding on a routine neighborhood beautification project, burning billboards along the highway- U.S. 6, later to be devoured by the superstate's interstate autobahn. His procedure was simple, surgically deft. With a five-gallon can of gasoline he sloshed about the legs and support members of the selected target, then applied a match. Everyone should have a hobby."
-Edward Abbey, opening paragraph of The Monkey Wrench Gang
And yes, everyone should have a hobby (like geocaching). But I hope it doesn't involve destroying property.
This cache is the first in a series of caches dedicated to the eco-warriors who fought against the machinations of "progress" in the fictional late 1970s Four Corners area. Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang told the story of four of those eco-warriors, Doc Sarvis, Bonnie Abbzug, Seldom Seen Smith, and George Washington Hayduke, who decided to take on the industrial development that threatened their beloved southwestern desert. They took on whatever symbolized that development: billboards, bridges, strip mines, clear-cutting machines, highways, and their most hated obstruction, Glen Canyon Dam.
When you find this cache, take note of a letter or digit on the inside lid of the container and located on the inside page of the log book. This will be used to find the final cache of this series (yet to be hidden). The FTF for that final gets a prize.
There are many ways to get to this cache. I just went straight up. Approaching from the south would probably be easier, terrain-wise, but it only took me about 20 minutes to hike from the paved road to ground zero by going straight up.
I left a cairn above the cache, and I ask that everyone else who finds this do the same so other cachers can find this with relative ease. It really sucks to have to make a tough little hike like that and not find the cache.
FTF gets an historical world atlas.