03/21/2019 By Dud&Plato
Oh man this was a bittersweet DNF. Really enjoyed the hike, loved the mine, and almost lost it at the cuteness of the bats that were present! Not sure if was just having some ugly GPS bounce, or if perhaps some snow in the area was upping the difficulty. Managed to get a GZ in the area, and after a long search, and even expanding the search area, couldn't come up with this one. Sometimes it's not the difficulty of the hide, but just me making it harder than it is as well. Still, enjoyed the experience overall, so thank you for the hunt! I can certainly see myself returning to give it another go sometime in the future.
10/21/2018 By jmuser
Stopped and grabbed this one on the way back home after Knapps Knob and the Switchbacks. I have been up this trail many times and new the location of the mine well. I always thought there should be a cache up in that area. Glad we had good reason to take an extra hike! Thank you for the history and another great cache! TNLN_SL :-)
07/26/2018 By Libertarian Lad
Hiked from Garden Gate TH across Crosier to Glen Haven. This was the first cache we did. Have passed by this mine before; thanks for placing a cache and providing history! I do my 'prospecting' in grocery stores these days. TNLN.
06/23/2018 By COpackrat
I remember hiking by this adit in the past and thinking what a nice place it would be for a cache - I'm glad you thought so too! Took a little time to zero in on this one, but persistence payed off and I was soon signing the log. Thanks for another stop on the tour!
05/29/2018 By Denali41
Since my early days of geocaching Crosier Mountain and its surroundings, including the Glen Haven, the Miller Fork, and Dunraven areas, have held special allure for me. The caches by Tahosa and Sons on Crosier and Round Mountains initially captivated my attention, eventually resulting in my development of the Celtic Cross Tribute cache on Crosier. And of course Crosier is so large that the complex contains four distinct ranked peaks, augmented by the adjacent Triangle Mountain, all of which I had hiked up. My attraction to the area had also been nicely enhanced by Path Pacer’s earlier cache placements in the area, and I eagerly sought out each after the publications of her caches. So when this GeoTrail series was created I became excited! I had previously found six of the 14 caches on the geotrail and enjoyed reading the cache descriptions for the more recently published eight, including this one. Cumulatively a great synopsis of the history of the area, indeed.
Well, most of the new caches were published while the Big Thompson Canyon Highway was closed for renovation. To reach Glen Haven from Wellington using the detour through Lyons takes an extra 1 ½ hours round trip. So I decided to wait on getting after the eight remaining caches until the highway reopened. It did, but I was in Cincinnati at the Giga Geowoodstock Event when that happened. Today was the first chance I had to make the drive up the improved Big T highway and on to Glen Haven; I was accompanied by my puppies Orizaba and Chimborazo. We had a fun time chasing down seven of the eight new caches, and thinking about the historical themes associated with each. I had expected to also get up Triangle Mountain for the final cache of the geotrail, but the weather was not looking promising; that final adventure is reserved for a future date.
Thanks for this cache and thanks for this entire geotrail series, Path Pacer! I'm pleased to record the {FTF} on this nice cache!
03/14/2018 By Alpine Reviewer
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