Nuclear Payload

[willmtn1]

Sounds like fun! If I didn't avoid California like the plague, I'd join in the hunt.

I've got a buddy who's balls deep into one of those Forest Fenn treasure hunt spinoffs. I guess only 3 of the 12 FF treasures have been found so far. I haven't googled anything though. My facts may not be straight. Haha

The clues in this hunt that stand out to me are the "old fire road" and "giant flat rock".

I would assume in the early 80s the sprawl wasnt right up to the hills. It looks like not much fire road between town and most of the falls. My questions to Jerry would be - how far of a drive from civilization is the flat rock? If 45-60 minutes...

After staring at the maps for that area theres a place called Lytle Creek that appears to have a couple waterfalls and is a longer but still short drive from civilization.

I am imagining an archeology team finding this blade stash in 300 years and assuming its a hunters hoard of blades, like the prehistoric stone tool hoards sometimes located.

 

[Cobalt]

I literally grew up in the Cucamonga Upland Area. I can tell you that there is likely no chance that the stash is anywhere near the original location. We had dry barren periods in the 80's and 90's, that would have made it easier to find, so there is a good chance someone did find it back then and likely had nothing to do with knives. All the locals would hike that entire area daily. The other side of the coin is that we also got many heavy torrential storms that would have turned that canyon into a massive flash flood river many times during that period. All the north south streets turn into flood canals. I lived off of euclid and 19th for a while and then off sapphire st. There is no way that pipe is still there, unless Jerry took a backhoe up there and buried the stash 8ft deep.

Lyttle creek was a shooting area that was shut down due to stupidity. There was some housing and it was a small canyon. It was also a massive flood zone that would feed into much of the Rialto/Cucamonga water shed area. In the early 90's the lead engineer for California Steel Company(old Kaiser steel facility where Terminator II was filmed), decided to build a house in Lytle creek, the other engineers told him it was a mistake due to flood plain. He figured, hey it never rains in California. So he built anyway. A Few years later, his house ended up several miles down the road.

 

[Nuker]

(Your Town here) was a (your activity here) that was shut down due to stupidity.

That’s the name of the game in CA (big sigh).

 

[Boss1911]

I literally grew up in the Cucamonga Upland Area. I can tell you that there is likely no chance that the stash is anywhere near the original location. We had dry barren periods in the 80's and 90's, that would have made it easier to find, so there is a good chance someone did find it back then and likely had nothing to do with knives. All the locals would hike that entire area daily. The other side of the coin is that we also got many heavy torrential storms that would have turned that canyon into a massive flash flood river many times during that period. All the north south streets turn into flood canals. I lived off of euclid and 19th for a while and then off sapphire st. There is no way that pipe is still there, unless Jerry took a backhoe up there and buried the stash 8ft deep.

Lyttle creek was a shooting area that was shut down due to stupidity. There was some housing and it was a small canyon. It was also a massive flood zone that would feed into much of the Rialto/Cucamonga water shed area. In the early 90's the lead engineer for California Steel Company(old Kaiser steel facility where Terminator II was filmed), decided to build a house in Lytle creek, the other engineers told him it was a mistake due to flood plain. He figured, hey it never rains in California. So he built anyway. A Few years later, his house ended up several miles down the road.

So, In theory it could have found it's way into the Pacific ocean. We may be looking at a Message in a Bottle type situation (or would it be Bacon in a Bottle).

 

[Nuker]

As far as any more payloads here are some of the clues etc.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=507383&highlight=payload

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=492933&highlight=payload

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=493176&highlight=payload

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=493174&highlight=payload

Now those Payloads are cool and all but here is little nugget of Busse knowledge for you. There are over 36 payload knives, knives not tags mind you, that are buried all over the US. These are mostly all pre E-series. They are buried, suitably protected, in PVC pipe tubes. Most of these are extremely rare early pieces. Including two Argonne Assaults(or Steel Heart I's I can't remember which) buried together in Southern California somewhere. Most of these knives are PRICELESS. There is one catch................

Jerry has no idea where the maps are! Why do you think that he buries tags now? Alas my fellow porkers....... SAD but true

Happy Hunting,
Nick

Click to expand… interesting… (links are broken though)

 

[nick681]

Here are some pics of the payload I found.