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11-07-2016, 07:36 PM #1Hungover & Homeless
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My Buddies Found an Apocalypse Cache in a Cave
I've spend this summer as a carpenter up in the Eagle Cap Wilderness. The area I'm working in use to be a horsethief hideaway some years ago. Lotsa the locals say this is where they would come to survive an apocalypse. Yesterday my buddies were hiking around the area, and found a cave up in the cliffs across the river. Inside sat three barrels filled with survival gear. Saws, Traps, a fishing kit, Horseshoes, ropes. They only went through some of the stuff, and the only thing found with a date was a can of Criso with an expiration date in '79.
The cave is somewhere up in these hills
Part of what was inside - 3 Musketeer Bars, a fishing kit, Horseshoes and nails, animal traps, rope, and chocolate chips. I was amazed how well preserved everything was inside of the barrel. No rust, no rot.
Horseshoes inside vs outside of the barrel.
I only have one day off before I leave for my winter job. Hopefully I can get up there to do some investigating myself.Last edited by tBatt; 11-07-2016 at 10:32 PM.
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11-07-2016, 07:40 PM #2
Crisco isn't for cooking, so may be recently put there. Apocolypsing is a lonely business.
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11-07-2016, 09:55 PM #3
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11-07-2016, 10:08 PM #4Funky But Chic
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...and all they have is a 37-year-old vat of Crisco...
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11-07-2016, 10:09 PM #5
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11-07-2016, 10:23 PM #6
honestly, i'd be a little nervous digging into somebody's doomsday stash. seems like it would have significantly higher odds of being booby trapped.
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11-07-2016, 10:28 PM #7honestly, i'd be a little nervous digging into somebody's doomsday stash. seems like it would have significantly higher odds of being booby trapped.
I wonder if this might have been a cache left by prospectors or something like that?
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11-07-2016, 10:30 PM #8Hungover & Homeless
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11-07-2016, 10:35 PM #9
Send me the ice axe
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11-07-2016, 10:43 PM #10
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11-08-2016, 05:40 AM #11"One season per year, the gods open the skies, and releases a white, fluffy, pillow on top of the most forbidding mountain landscapes, allowing people to travel over them with ease and relative abandonment of concern for safety. It's incredible."
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11-08-2016, 07:18 AM #12
Is the bicycle tube repair kit really in there? Or did they just use the can for other crap? If so, post that shit in sprockets!
However many are in a shit ton.
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11-08-2016, 10:41 AM #13
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11-08-2016, 10:57 AM #14
I have to agree with Stuck here. That's pretty weak as far as apocalypse caches go.
You want to hear about the mother lode of doomsday prepper stashes? Back when I was a kid we lived along the Oregon coast. My buddies and I were into local folklore and one big story was about this nutcase prepper from the 1800s that stashed a ton of necessary supplies should shit ever hit the fan.
Dude disappeared and plenty of people just wrote him off as a kook. We didn't, and went looking for it. It took a lot of doing, and we had some pretty pissed off people trying to stop us, nevermind exploring tidal catacombs filled with danger.
Anyway we found it and holy shit were the legends right. This guy was preparing for the apocalypse and then some. He had it all, a ship, enough money to buy Equatorial Guinea, weapons... the works.
A film crew did a piece on us and our find and we're we're also able to save the town but that's another story.
Good luck with your bucket.I still call it The Jake.
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11-08-2016, 11:08 AM #15
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11-08-2016, 12:12 PM #16jgb@etree Guest
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11-08-2016, 12:15 PM #17Registered User
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Chunk?
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11-08-2016, 12:19 PM #18
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11-08-2016, 12:23 PM #19
It was found in a Wilderness Area; that glue hasn't worked since '84.
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11-08-2016, 12:35 PM #20
Highly interesting, something that would be cool to peruse in a solving-a-mystery sort of way.
The bicycle repair kit looks like it's from the 1960s. You might be able to get a better time line from that alone.
It's curious a bicycle inner tube repair kit, but no bike. Either someone else snagged the bike if one was there, or the prepper was going to ride his/her bike there. Mountain bikes didn't exist in the 60s or 70s.
Did you take any pictures of the immediate area, any footprints to suggest people were recently there?“The best argument in favour of a 90% tax rate on the rich is a five-minute chat with the average rich person.”
- Winston Churchill, paraphrased.
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11-08-2016, 02:01 PM #21
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11-08-2016, 02:10 PM #22“The best argument in favour of a 90% tax rate on the rich is a five-minute chat with the average rich person.”
- Winston Churchill, paraphrased.
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11-08-2016, 02:16 PM #23
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11-08-2016, 02:39 PM #24
My Buddies Found an Apocalypse Cache in a Cave
Great. Someone's grandpa in the area stashed that years ago to be ready..."come on Martha, git yer ass movin, I got a stash up in the cave ready for this EXACT moment, been ready for years"
Sorry grandpa Herman, someone found your stash, posted it on the internet and made butt sex jokes about your Crisco.
America. Fuck yea!!
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11-08-2016, 02:56 PM #25
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