"George Washington Hayduke, Vietnam, Special Forces, had a
grudge. After two years in the jungle delivering Montagnard babies
and dodging helicopters (for those boys up there fired their
tumbling dumdums at thirty rounds per second at anything that
moved: chickens, water buffalo, rice farmers, newspaper reporters,
lost Americans, Green Beret medics-whatever breathed) and another
year as a prisoner of the Vietcong, he returned to the American
Southwest he had been remembering only to find it no longer what he
remembered, no longer the clear and classical desert, the pellucid
sky he roamed in dreams. Someone or something was changing
things."
-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang
This cache is the second 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.
This cache is fairly easy to get to. I was able to get my 2WD
Stratus within about 400 feet of ground zero. A quick hike up the
hill will get you there.
Side note: there is a nearby cache called Mardi Gras
(http://coord.info/GC34E41) that has only one find (us) as of the
writing of this. It's a quality cache, well-stocked with swag. It's
within walking distance of this cache and is highly recommended. If
you do go after it, be sure to read our "found it" log for the
correct coordinates to get you in the right place.