CONGRATULATIONS TO icezebra11 FOR THE FTF!!
The word “Madison” is highly meaningful to me! I lived in Madison, Wisconsin for 27 years; my daughter was born at Madison General Hospital in Madison; our oldest granddaughter is named Madison. Madi is now 21 years old and will graduate from CU--Denver in May 2020. She’s just been notified that she has been accepted in graduate school there in a Master’s program in Anthropology, beginning in August 2020. This Letterbox Hybrid cache is hidden in tribute to her and to her accomplishments. When Madison was younger, she greatly enjoyed geocaching, using the caching name “Hunter Guth”.
This is a conventional Letterbox Hybrid cache. You will start at the listed coordinates and proceed to a couple of locations using landmarks and instructions on this page to reach the actual cache. There you will find a Regular-size geocaching container that has a log book you must sign–as you do with any physical cache. Or better yet, if you use a personalized LBH stamp, mark it in the log and also record your impressions about the cache and your hiking experiences. The cache also includes a rubber ink stamp, “MADISON”, that can be used to stamp your booklet of found LBH caches if you so desire. After using it, return this stamp to the container.
Go to the listed coordinates and walk a bearing of about 350°T, until you arrive at a good-sized, solitary rock formation. There are other formations in the area, but head for the one on the right side of the larger grouping. When you reach the correct rock structure, look around and find a sawed wooden block in a rock crevice. I didn’t put it there, but when I arrived in the vicinity I saw it fairly quickly. It’s quite visible. Find it. Once at this wooden block, record your coordinates. Then turn and walk over moderately steep terrain to the final cache location. Go 277 feet from the wooden block at a bearing of 105°T and find the cache. The container is covered with small rocks and some sticks. See the spoiler photo if you need additional aid. When I hid the cache I placed three trackables in it.
You will be hiking on the Young Gulch Trail to the cache vicinity. A nice feature of Young Gulch trail is that dogs are permitted off-leash, so give your dog(s) a wonderful time along this fine trail! Have fun, and enjoy your hike up this interesting gulch that in the past decade has been ravaged by a remarkable flood as well as a serious wildfire. And congratulate the US Forest Service on the great feat of getting this area open again to public access and use! Enjoy...
Additional Waypoints
P08MDMD - N 40 41.315 W 105 20.890
N 40° 39.907 W 105° 20.857
Parking and Trailhead
"Madison"
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