Hastings Cutoff Traditional Cache
SuzieQue2: I no longer live in the area and can’t maintain the cache.
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This cache is located on County Road 173. During the winter months this cache may not be accessible. "Congrats" to BriMLie Fam for the FTF!
The Hastings Cutoff was an alternate route for emigrants to travel to California, as proposed by Lansford Hastings.
In 1845, Hastings published a guide entitled "The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California". A sentence in the book briefly describes the cutoff:
The most direct route, for the California emigrants, would be to leave the Oregon route, at Fort Bridger; thence bearing West Southwest, to the Salt Lake; and thence continuing down to the bay of St. Francisco, by the route just described.
The cutoff left the Oregon Trail at Fort Bridger in Wyoming, passed through the Wasatch Range, across the Great Salt Lake Desert, an 80 mile waterless drive, looped around the Ruby Mountains, and rejoined the California Trail about seven miles west of modern Elko (also Emigrant Pass).
Not far from this spot is an area know as "The Crossing of the Muddy" used by pioneers of the Mormon Trail, California Trail and later a Pony Express station and Stagecoach station. Caches GCGTAC-Muddy Creek and GC2GBWM-Muddy Crossing Station are located just a short distance from this site. Check them out while you are in the area.
Bring your own pencil and tweezers. Please let me know if the cache needs attention. Thanks!
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