GC4BTRJ Edward Abbey (Traditional Cache) in Oregon, United States created by KoolAidWino

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Hidden : 5/10/2013

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Abbey was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues. His best-known works include the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang and the non-fiction work Desert Solitaire. Writer Larry McMurtry referred to Abbey as the "Thoreau of the American West".

Abbey was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania on January 29, 1927 to Mildred Postlewait and Paul Revere Abbey. Abbey graduated from high school in Indiana, Pennsylvania, in 1945. Eight months before his 18th birthday, when he would be faced with being drafted into the United States military, Abbey decided to explore the American southwest. He traveled by foot, bus, hitchhiking, and freight train hopping. During this trip he fell in love with the desert country of the Four Corners region.

In 1956 and 1957, Abbey worked as a seasonal ranger for the United States National Park Service at Arches National Monument.

Edward Abbey died on March 14, 1989, at the age of 62, in his home in Tucson, Arizona.

Abbey's body was buried in the Cabeza Prieta Desert in Pima County, Arizona, where "you'll never find it." His friends carved a marker on a nearby stone, reading:

EDWARD

PAUL

ABBEY

1927—1989

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Sometimes when I want to take the easy way out I think of what Abbey said "Take the path of most resistance." This is another cache along the Stafford Basin Trail

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Decryption Key

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(letter above equals below, and vice versa)