Winter Park Tour

02/20/2016 By Scaber
What a great find. I completed the 3 stages about two weeks ago but couldn't find the final. I came back today to find the final. I took off my skies and stomped around until I made the find. The cache was where I looked last week but was covered in snow and frozen into place. I could touch the cache but free it from the frozen grasp of the mountain. I was tempted to take a picture and call it a find but not signing the log goes against one of my caching commandments. I was able to dig the cache out from underneath to claim a well deserved find. Thank you for the adventure.
Well earned find.

02/05/2016 By Scaber
It took most of the day but I was not able to find final location. I loved the tree tags, nice job. Note that location 3 requires alternative coordinates as stated in the cache description. I finally made it to the final location but was not able to come up with the cache. I found the described location but not able to find. Area was well covered in snow and a cache under a log would most likely be covered. Frustrating ending but a nice tour of Winter Park/ Mary Jane.

09/01/2014 By megb174
Cool find

06/12/2014 By GreencoreOutfitters
Got it! Had to wait for the snow to melt but the final is there. The cache was about 60 feet up hill from where it should have been. On the ground it would have been imposable to find in winter. It was last found by some non-cachers who signed the log and left some not so cache friendly items that I was happy to take. They also left a bottled water that exploded so the cache was very wet (log book survived.) I dried out the cache and hid closer to the appropriate coordinates and in a place more winter friendly.

04/21/2014 By GreencoreOutfitters
Stages 1, 2, and 3 are fine. Right where they should be. I don't know why I had such a hard time with #2, the cords are spot on. The final is where I'm a bit hung up now. Maybe we did get to much snow and it's frozen in. I will look one more time this week. Thank you to the CO for a little help.

03/26/2014 By Wulff Pack
I've tried this 3 times and keep getting skunked on the last stage. The first 3 stages are no problem, but the last...criminy...is it really up that cliff? OK I searched the area 3 years ago. I figured the snow was too deep. After that, I lost the coordinates, but tried just using the clue to find it (last year). We searched every downed tree between the lifts on about 3 runs. Today, I made this Priority #1 and found the first 3 without much difficulty (stage 3 has never given me much trouble, but you must pay attention to the hint). Then on to the last, at about 4PM - not much time. We tried carefully staying above the GZ, following one of the horses, below a cliff, then suddenly, the GZ was above us and I looked up a VERY steep slope. The GPS said 180 feet to the south (up the slope). Crikey, it was about a 75 decree slope. Me and one son decided to make a go for it with second son staying with the gear. After 5 minutes of very strenuous climbing, I found myself at a familiar location. My son checked the most obvious location - nothing he could find. Then I realized my GPS was actually pointing to the cliff face. There was something that could satisfy the clue on the cliff, but it seemed a long shot, given the snow depth, slope steepness and other conditions. We gave it a cursory look, but it was about 20 minutes past close and son #2 was nervous about the Ski Patrol coming. We skidded down an 80 degree east-facing slope (which was a blast), then down the slope below the horse, to get out gear and get out, skiing below the lift. WE might have been the last off the mountain this particular day.

I'll give it another shot - but my question is...why do others find stage 3 (or even 2) to be the hardest? The GZ is on cliff!

03/21/2014 By GreencoreOutfitters
I have looked and looked and looked, but I just can't find #2. The hints are of no help. The area has a new bike trail and I worry the cache has fallen victim. I am giving up on this on for the winter and will look again in the summer.

12/13/2013 By sflookers
Thanks chefstern for this multi adventure. First time at Winter park, and geocaching, what a bonus! Unfortunately, I was not able to finish it, but it was quite the adventure. I found the first part with no trouble, part 2, I think I went in circles, not even sure. I just kept plodding around in my skis pretending they were snow shoes, got quite good at it, when I was about to give up, I finally spotted it. Had a hard time reading it, but finally figured it out. Part 3 was a stinker, I'm not the greatest skier, and pretty much hate moguls, so as I came down Columbine, focused on keeping all the bones and joints intact, I overshot my target by about 80 feet! Well, I was not coming down that run again if I could help it, besides, I had just done Mary Jane micro, and it scared the bejesus outta me. So I decided to uphill it with the skis, and the powder, it was just too close and I'm kinda hardheaded. Well, I'm not too fond of powder now either, fun to fall in, a stinker to get out of, but a lot of work trying to uphill it. Finally made it to part 3, got the coordinates, but could not find it with my gps. Discovered what a lousy gps I have with this mountain adventure. It tells me how far it is and in what direction, it doesn't seem to know what direction north is (or maybe its operator error, the directions are quite sketchy). The only way I could figure out where each set of coordinates were in regards to what run, or what mountain for that matter, was on my laptop each night at the hotel. So, I do know where the final is, I just ran out of ski vacation time. Hope to come back someday to finish this multi, thanks so much for the adventure, it was very challenging for me, now back to south florida, and real life. Maybe I need a new gps for Christmas! : )

02/16/2013 By Zach B
Finally Found It! TFTC

02/01/2013 By youkfish
To the previous question and future searchers: this would be one heck of a hike cache, best attempted on skis as all of the found logs have done.