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About 1.1 mile from the Marshal South home site trail head. Cache is beyond the abandoned Marshal South site with a great view of Blair Valley below. About .12 mi rock hopping after trail end.
“For 17 years, from 1930 to 1947, poet, artist, and author Marshal South and his family lived on Ghost Mountain—a remote, waterless mountaintop that is today within California’s Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Over a period of nine of those years, South chronicled his family’s controversial primitive lifestyle through popular monthly articles written for Desert Magazine.
“An acrimonious divorce ended the “experiment in primitive living,” so described by Randall Henderson, editor of Desert Magazine. Marshal’s death in 1948 soon after the divorce, the refusal of his wife Tanya to grant an interview over the next 50 years of her life, and the many rumors that have abounded have combined to elicit wide speculation over the years.
“Today the South’s home, called by them Yaquitepec (YAKeete-PECK), lies in ruins—crumbling adobe walls, the frame for an arched doorway, a rusted bed frame, and cement and barrel cisterns once used to catch seasonal rainfall. A one-mile trail at the foot of Ghost Mountain in Blair Valley, off Highway S-2, climbs 1,200 feet to the site. The Souths had named the mountain for the “thin, ghostly trails” that led to the obscure ridge where they built their home.” Diana Lindsay in DesertUSA.com
Tupperware-type cache contains a compass, personal fan w/batteries, pocket knife, steel whistle and a utility strap with quick release buckle. Also a log and two mechanical pencils (so the summer heat won't cause ink to oooze).
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(Decrypt)
Haqre n yrnavat ebpx, ivrj oybpxrq jvgu n ebpx.