GC1AHKE Traditional Cache Pine History Series #2----Whiskey Cache
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular Regular | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 2 out of 5
By: Etoyoc1 & Bobcat66 @ | Hide Date: 03/25/2008 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 25.167 W105° 19.161 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 1
Parking coords at Gulch entrance: N 39.25.142 W 105.19.164
You can follow your GPS straight to the cache, but follow these directins for an easier walk. A short fairly easy walk from the road 275 feet into Whiskey Gulch. Then a slight easy grade 145 feet to the cache. LOTS OF GOODIES FOR FTF !!!!!!!!
Cache location is somewhat winter friendly, with great views including, Sphinx Rock. Nice spot to pic nic in the sun.

Welcome to Historic Whiskey Gulch! Walk into the gulch keeping your eyes right looking for remnants of and old rock wall. At apx 275 feet in, you will make a hairpin right and follow up a mild grade. Follow your GPS from here.

This area is WHISKEY GULCH. In the mid 1930's a local moonshiner & whiskey runner by the name of George Burgedorff, had a few whiskey stills in local gulches, including this one. George had borrowed a saddle pack from a local named Joe Hill, who was the local mail carrier for 30 years, to haul sugar to his stills. Joe kept asking for it's return, and never got it back. He told George he would make him pay somehow, and "thru the nose".
One day while atop Elephant Rock in Pine, Joe saw George bringing whiskey down from his still in Whiskey Gulch. The load was too heavy to get all the way to Pine, so George hid it in some rocks, which Joe saw him do. Joe grabbed the stash and rehid it in Elk Creek.
George figured someone local stole his goods but couldn't figure out who. All that summer, Joe furnished all the guys in town with that drinking Whiskey. He even served some to George.
Eventually Joe divulged that he had taken the whiskey. But it was not stolen! It was payment for the saddle George never returned.
You can get more history like this of the area in a book titled "The Upper Side Of The Pie Crust" By Margaret V. Bently.
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11 Logs: Found it 11  

Found it 04/07/2019 By Wulff Pack
Not all that much room to pull off. Enjoyed this cache and the history that goes with it. The geodogs enjoyed getting out of the car for a leg stretch.

Found it 09/15/2017 By jmythng
TFTC

Found it 03/05/2017 By Team Chili Fries
Love this on was hard to get to but worth the hill. TFTC

Found it 11/20/2016 By Killian33
I found this one with Nickgatt and my three geohounds, TFTC SL.

Found it 11/20/2016 By nickgatt
@13:11:00 #26855 Killian33 and I (and all 3 of her geo-hounds) went to Pine to find a few caches. We were surprised at how little snow there was there. TFTC

Found it 11/04/2016 By DaSportsBabe
Cache in good shape. Took an awesome road trip today.

Found it 07/09/2016 By glsdragon
TFTC

Found it 05/14/2016 By JMKR
Whisky's for drinkin - caches' for findin. TFTC

Found it 10/13/2015 By BaconFudge
Up in the area for a few days looking for a Elk and a few caches along the way. Found this one along our travels. TFTC SL.

Found it 08/30/2015 By SuperDolph
Dropped by while exploring the area. Giving this one a fav point for the location, the history, the full size container, and the nice day! Left the Cinderella TB (my 9 y/o did not want to part with her). TFTC!

Found it 08/03/2015 By robespierre50
Headed for the hills today for a few caches with geoguru1. Went to Buck Snort first then stopped back for this one. Nice spot TFTC.