Jack Rabbit's Solitude
This location brings
back many memories of my work for the last 40+ yrs. Working in the
oilfield and living in Ne., I have accumulated many
miles/hours/trip/etc. thru this junction.
We had a nickname for
this place as the 'armpit of Colorado.' Being the fact that
regardless of your direction of travel, it's always downhill into
this junction.
As far as the name, we
had that one figured out too. It's so desolate down there, the jack
rabbits pack their lunches. I myself have spent 5 days snowed in at
the Port of Entry (now vacant) with all roads closed. Plus I got to
know the people who worked at the port because of the many trips
thru there. Some of their names are on the signs right above the
cache.
The solitude of this
area is pretty evident when most of the children have moved to the
city and there are many abandoned farmsteads scattered through out
Logan County. As you drive north from Stoneham, it becomes
one of their most desolate highways in northern Colorado. You are
lucky to see a single yard light on your trip north.
Close caches are in
the Pawnee National Grasslands, northwest of this cache. They are
of a historical nature. More can be found out in New Raymer (west)
at one of the local eateries.
As usual hide as good or better.
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