GC2P071 USAFA Overlook
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: co_gps_guy @ | Hide Date: 02/18/2011 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 59.228 W104° 54.433 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
                 

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This cache is near Stanley Canyon Trail (Trail # 707) and is a great place to take a break, look out over the USAF Academy grounds, northern Colorado Springs, and Black Forest off to the north. You may even get to see AFA cadets conducting glider training to polish their pilot skills.

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This cache is near the first great rest stop and overlook on the Stanley Canyon Trail (Trail # 707) starting on the Air Force Academy and then entering Pike National Forest. A great place to take a break, look out over the Academy grounds, northern Colorado Springs, and Black Forest off to the north. You may even get to see cadets conducting glider training to polish their pilot skills.

*** WARNING: Stanley Canyon Trail is steep in parts and can be VERY slippery in the rain or when snow and ice remains on the trail ***

The Stanley Canyon Trail is accessed via the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Visitors to the Air Force Academy may enter through either the North Gate, which can be accessed from Exit 156B on Interstate 25, 14 miles north of downtown Colorado Springs, or from the South Gate, which can be accessed from Exit 150 on Interstate 25. For more information, call the Visitor's Center at 719-333-2025. The Academy is open to visitors daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Visitor's Center is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

A map to find the trailhead can be viewed at: http://www.cospringstrails.com/hikes/stanley.html

Congratulations to kenyansherpa -- FTF on 2/19/2011

06/19/2019 By seekir
TFTC! Best cache container I’ve seen to protect from the elements. Lovely day on the trail.

06/16/2019 By Hodge^ski
TFTC.. SL. Cool location.

05/06/2019 By R&B CO
Great day for a hike. Missed the first turn so made the trip much longer than it had to be. All good with the cache. Pretty steep climb but great views up there. Thanks for the cache

04/21/2019 By colorado-rattll
First time up this step trail and stopped for a short diversion to grab this cache. Chose the most difficult route to get up to it.

04/07/2019 By PantamToad
Quick find with my sponsor family. Love the views!

07/06/2018 By berg_kids
Hiking with the dog.

03/17/2018 By BobbyStu
Took a family hike on a beautiful St. Patty's Day! Even the grandkids made it to the dry reservoir (scary drought year). TFTC Peace/Out!

11/01/2017 By PayMeCache
Fun hike today with fearthefish, Back Country Horsemen and KJKlock. The weather couldn’t have been better for us today. Cool cache container here - first of its kind for me.

Found GC2P071 - USAFA Overlook, on November 1, 2017 using Cachly for iOS.

Some may call me seriously mentally ill. Some may state that I am in a state of mind that prevents social interaction. Some may say I am in a state of mind that prevents normal perception and or behavior. I prefer to say that I tend to do the same thing over and over again, but I expect different results. That being said, I believe we only live one life and I am trying to make the best of it. I thank you, co_gps_guy for placing a fun geocache to fuel my "insanity" or addiction as I call it. I appreciate you bringing me here so that I can sign my alias on a piece of paper that you have hidden.

I look forward to finding more of your geocaches. I also look forward to potentially finding geocaches with you one day and sharing stories of our insanity... I mean hobby or addiction? Cheers!

11/01/2017 By fearthefish
I think after today I am going to change my geo-name to TheHikingCaboose. I am convinced that the only reason why PayMeCache, Back Country Horsemen, and KJKlock brought me along is because they knew who was lunch if we came across a hungry bear.

But I digress.

Like most of our finds today, someone else found it and had it open before I could even see the container, let alone actually make it to the cache. Thanks for the fun hide and for your contribution to a great day of caching and hiking.

11/01/2017 By Back Country Horsemen
Picked up on the epic geocaching hike.