GC5QRK1 Additional Encouragement to the Stone Cabin
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: kekj @ | Hide Date: 04/04/2015 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 35.808 W108° 10.128 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
         

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An easy to find small round tin cache placed in an alcove of the side of one of the LARGEST ROCK cairns you will ever see - along the path to the STONE CABIN.  See the STONE CABIN Trailhead cache for more information on the trail conditions.  From TH allow minimum 30+ minutes one way (up OR down!) to this cache. Step carefully and watch for loose rocks that roll underfoot.

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From Trailhead cache to here is 300' down, Total to Stone cabin is 700' elevation change 1.6 mile round trip as goes the trail. As with most of the early logs, we too found it took as long or longer to go down than up. Water levels in the creek may make for dangerous conditions part of the year. Check with locals for water level conditions.

Go DIRECTLY - Near straight line - from here to next cache (More encouragement) Do NOT try going straight west down to creek and cutting around to Stone Cabin. WE DID on our way down after setting this cache as we were looking for a good stream crossing higher up the creek. WE MADE IT - all the way to the creek, but would not want to do it again unless it was the ONLY way up and down - it ISN'T. It appears that 3cacheteers FTF log shows that she ALSO tried the same route and did NOT find a route all the way down after being WAY off the cache route and then had to do a traverse on a loose shaley slope of well OVER 100% grade. At one point the Ms. got off on that same slope and once she realized how bad it was she just STOOD STILL for several minutes while she got her nerve back together to traverse back off of it. I though I was going to have to talk her off the slope or even go out and hold her hand but she finally, gingerly, on her own, worked her way back off of it. We too added over .5 mile to our down trip. We did not find a better crossing higher up so sucked it up and wadded back out and followed the marked trail coming back up, setting MORE encouragement at that time to guide everyone else on the BEST and ONLY decent? trail.

CONGRATS to 3cacheteers for FTF on 4-10-15!

03/20/2019 By OA Vigil Honor
And we are off. The first part of the descent was not to bad. Had a couple slips but no falls. This was a great resting spot and we located the cache quickly.

04/16/2017 By BG2015
Why is it the easy to find ones never seem to be there for me? Maybe a packrat took it again? There were no cairns at all in the area, but several LARGE rocks. GZ kept leading me to the same place, but nothing was to be found, not even a little encouragement.

11/12/2016 By jake92
Beautiful views and saw a couple of deer heading back up the hill.almost there.

11/12/2016 By sjclimber
It was good to get to this bench and off the steep, loose terrain. The container was lying on the ground near a bunch of refuse from pack rats. Guess they didn't like the metal?? So, logged in and re-hid the container with a little stone cover. Don't think a rat will move it now. As we wandered downhill, we jumped a mess of rabbits and two deer. The does were pretty noisy moving across the bench and under the cliffs. Onward.

08/27/2016 By beth1957
Thank you for the cache:)Out with linecacher and rxgirl75 grabbing some caches:) On are way to stone cabin:)

08/27/2016 By Linecacher
Out with Beth1957 and Rxgirl75 on our way to Stone Cabin. Grabbed this one on the way. Hard on bad knees. :-( TFTC SL :-)