IACG #50

It's A Cattle Guard! #50

Note that with this IACG cache, we have reached a milestone in this series, #50! The cache was already set and we were documenting the coords and making notes when we realized it was a milestone of the series. We could NOT have picked a better location for this milestone set! See below for more info.

Set by a geocaching team who can’t resist the fantastic opportunities for magnetic caches in and around a cattle guard.

On one side of a standard cattle guard, off the road, there is usually a bypass cattle gate; often the area on either side offers a convenient place to park

As always, look carefully for unfriendly flora or fauna before reaching.

If cache contains water, please dump it out, sign log (printed on water proof paper), replace lid on rust resistant container, and replace where you found it. Thanks.

Notes of interest; This is the ONLY IACG that we have annotated with some history, so you know it is special! The area of Grand Mesa immediately above on BOTH sides of Kannah Creek, north & south, is one of our favorite caching areas on Grand Mesa due to the history involved, much of it related to Kannah Creek. This is near the highest point that the road reaches on Kannah creek and there is a whole lot of history back in here! Just research the Lands End Series of caches immediately above here on the rim (northeast on the map) - Coal Creek Waterfall - Switchback - Raber Cow Camp. Also look for the closest cache southeast on the map - Indian Point - not much info is given in the description but at the cache itself are photos and copies of news articles about the cow trail built in the 1880s that comes from Bridgeport (near where you entered Kannah Creek from Hwy) and goes up on top the mesa at Indian Point. That trail is still used for movement of cattle to this day. That trail intersects with the Kannah creek trail head system - just down the road around the switchback to the SE of this cache, near IACG #48.

Another interesting factoid is that this cache is literally set dead center of the location where the road changes names between Kannah Creek and Purdy Mesa Roads. (that should be a spoiler hint if there ever was one! p.s. West side, low! - don't tell the Ms. I gave it away, this is her series! I just set them!)

FTF congrats go to Pauleefox and Whizzkid on 2-24-15!