Carrousel (Age 30) Logan's Run Cache

A cache dedicated to the 1976 movie Logan's Run, based on the novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson.

Logan's Run Movie Poster

You've never heard of Logan's Run? Look at the info below this cache and series info.

Cache Info

This container is about the size of large pill bottle, covered in camo, adorned with a icon in the film, and tucked in an inconspicuous/copious bit of foliage. Please sign and date the log ... and never trust anyone over the age of 30!

Logan's Run - Logan & Jessica

Part of the Sci Fi Theme Series Along Coal Creek Trail

This cache is part of 25 caches along the Coal Creek Trail that celebrate aspects of great films/shows in Science Fiction with caches that feature unique decorations or memoribila from the media they celebrate. The cache starts in Erie and ends in/near Lafayette.

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Logan's Run

The movie was directed by Michael Anderson with the screenplay by David Zelag Goodman. It's 2274, and on the face of things, it all seems to be an idyllic society. Living in a city within a hermetically sealed dome, there is little or no work for humans to perform, and inhabitants are free to pursue all of the pleasures of life. There is one catch however: your life is limited and when you reach thirty years of age you must participate in a quasi-religious ceremony known as "carrousel" in which your body is exploded so your sprit can be reborn. Some, known as "runners", try to escape their fate when the time comes, and it's the job of Sandmen to track them down and kill them. Logan (Michael York) is such a man, and with several years before his own termination date, thinks nothing of the job he does. Soon after meeting a young woman, Jessica-6 (Jenny Agutter), he is ordered to become a runner and infiltrate a community of runners outside the dome known as "Sanctuary" (symbolized by an Ankh) and to destroy it. Pursued by his friend Francis (Richard Jordan), also a Sandman, Logan and Jessica find their way to the outside. There, they discover a beautiful, virtually uninhabited world. Logan realizes that he must return to the dome to tell them what he's found and be set free.

This film represents the pinnicle of the depressingly hopeful and nihilisticaly purposeful 70's sci fi movie. Watching it for the first time on Saturday afternoon reruns in the 80's made a deep impression on me, and throughout my life I have interpretations of the film placing it on a wide spectrum of philosophies ... but nevermind all of that. While the movie only bears a slight resemblance to the book, both are wonderful paleo-futuristic looks into one of our possible tomorrows as viewed by yesterday.

Additional Waypoints

0193H2Z - Parking
N 40° 01.347 W 105° 02.663