A Cooked Cache

On New Year's Day, 2004, I place a cache in the Santa Susana Pass area--Historic Stagecoach Trail. On Wednesday, September 28, 2005, the area was burned in a massive wildfire. The cache is toast, along with the surrounding hillsides. The cache was baked--the seal was air-tight so the ammo box bulged as the pressure increased. Then, when it cooled, the cache became vacuum-sealed like a canning jar. I had to use my knife to poke a hole in the rubber to let out the vacuum. I plan on replacing it with a new and improved cache.

To see photos of the fire as seen from our home, go to my general blog, Random Thoughts.