Trade only small unscented items.
The cache is about half way around a 3.29 mile easy, mostly flat
loop trail with minor elevation gain. Great for fitness training,
the trail runs through a prairie dog town, so watch out; these cute
critters are watching too.
*** Campgrounds are now open!***
Cheyenne
Mountain State Park
Day use fee or Colorado state park pass required.
Imagine the old west and how travelers, ranchers, or even
outlaws used areas like this. Speaking of outlaws....
The third and final second-in-command for the outlaw group,
"The Wild Bunch", was Harry Longabaugh, aka: "The
Sundance Kid". His nickname was derived from the jail time he
spent in Sundance, Wyoming. The leader of "The Wild
Bunch" was "Butch Cassidy" also known as "The
Gentleman Robber". The ranch hand mentor of Robert LeRoy
Parker's was Mike Cassidy; over time Robert also took up the
trade of being a Butcher, hence the nickname "Butch
Cassidy".
There are various possible conclusions to the story of
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". The ending of the
movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kidd" is not one of the
possibilities though. They either killed themselves after the house
they were holed up in, in Bolivia, was surrounded; Sundance was
killed along with another man and Butch escaped (it is reported
that "Butch" attended family reunions and was seen by
others long after his 1908 "death"); or Sundance also
slipped away to live with his girl friend and the third person in
their South American outlaw adventures, Etta Place. Etta had
disappeared from the group and recorded history some month prior to
their final episode.
Although the most successful outlaw group of the "Wild
West", they seldom fired a round, Butch Cassidy had never
been reported to have killed anyone; instead they relied on the
genius of Butch Cassidy and his research of their targets. From the
location of this cache, you can image how outlaws could hole-up in
the hills and watch a trail or railway and plan their outlaw deeds.
Maybe Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid rode through this area as
they traveled from Wyoming to New Mexico.
Please stick to trails as much as possible, if you see a trail
forming close to the cache, avoid it. Remember, when hiking off
trail do not hike single file, if hiking on a single track trail
walk in single file. Aviod making a single track trail
PARK ONLY IN PARKING LOTS...DO NOT PARK ALONG THE ROADWAY OR
IN FRONT OF LOCKED GATES
Additional Waypoints
PK104HQ - Trailhead Parking
N 38° 43.888 W 104° 49.260
The Wild Bunch
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