UNRUH CACHE
N ________45____________ o ___18___________. 120_____________________
W ________121___________ o ___09___________ . 359______________________
Original cache moved 1/1/03 to get you out of the mud. Current contents:
- Bunny Doll
- Keychain spotlight and one dollar coin in baggie
- Pez dispenser
- Two one dollar bills
- The Dalles Christmas Pin from Starlight Parade 2002
- Small Frog
- Virginia Quarter
- New Hampshire Quarter
- Maryland Quarter
- Ducks Unlimited Band # 122414
- Ducks Unlimited Band # CY 3586
- Dog Tag: Pick of the Litter # V7197
- 27 exposure camera-take a photo. We will develop and post photos
- Fitzgeralds pen
- Apple Ornament
History of the UNRUH CACHE.
In 1979, A youth group from Enumclaw, Washington was traveling to a Pathfinder Camporee in Tygh Valley.
In the afternoon, the group stopped in The Dalles for some touch football and to eat. They then caravanned to Tygh Valley. There were five young men in one of the vehicles. There was a motor home in front of their vehicle. When the caravan reached Tygh Valley, the driver of the motor home waited for the following vehicle. When the vehicle did not arrive, the motor home retraced the route and came upon a Logging truck at the edge of the road, stopped where it had been flagged down by a young man. While at the scene the local ambulance arrived. The vehicle lay at the bottom of the main canyon next to the road. Of the five young men in the vehicle, two were killed, one seriously injured, and two survived with minor injuries.
This cache is in memory of one of the young men who did not survive.
Since 1979, this grade has been straightened and widened.
However, vehicles still leave the roadway and end up in the canyon. Within the past two years, a vehicle driven by a Tygh Valley resident was found at the bottom of the canyon.
Please, enjoy your trip, but drive carefully.
BT & Lee
PS
About 0.16 miles due East, (N45 18.109, W121 09.169) you can pick up interesting rocks at the toe of the slope.
Watch for falling rocks.