GC7MJJD Traditional Cache Mayday
Type: Traditional | Size: Small Small | Difficulty: 3 out of 5 | Terrain: 4 out of 5
By: MADRs @ | Hide Date: 04/04/2018 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 09.533 W104° 53.063 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
No Dogs  Not Recommended for kids  Significant hike  Difficult climbing  Not Available at all times  No Poison plants  Dangerous Animals  Cliff / falling rocks  Dangerous area  Not Wheelchair accessible  Parking available  No Camping available  No Horses  Thorns  No Truck Driver/RV 

This cache is a memorial to a C-47 crew that crashed at this location on September 10, 1947. The Pilot: Maj Jack Grifith, Co-Pilot: Lt. Oran Richardson and Navigator: SSG. Edmund Bueler. The plane was flying a practice mission that took off out of Denver. The crash was spotted on the morning of September 11, 1948 by a school bus driver. The army came out the same day to collect the remains, and the large pieces of the plane, but left many small parts (bolts, washers, etc). There weren't any survivors, nor does anyone know what caused the accident.

Inside this cache is a bolt that was from the C-47 that was found in the area.

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It is a few feet of the ground and is wedged between two large rocks. It is a challenging hike, off the trail.

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10 Logs: Found it 10  

Found it 07/04/2019 By CacheCrashers!
Great day for a hike and geocaching! Awesome location - TFTC!

Found it 07/04/2019 By Espions
Thanks for the historic cache and fun find!!! Think I found a decent way down :)

Found it 04/14/2019 By Scaber
Found while on a muddy trail run. Thank you for placing this cache and helping to keep our recreation going.

Found it 02/02/2019 By COpackrat
Lots of snow along the trail, but the area around the cache was pretty much melted out. Thanks for bringing us to this historic site.

Found it 02/02/2019 By Kerewin0430
Out for a nice snowy hike with COpackrat today. I love this area, and am happy that caching brings me to cool new parts each visit. Thanks for placing this fun cache and for bringing attention to the history!

Found it 08/19/2018 By Offsprings
Found it with SnailMan1. TFTC.

Found it 08/19/2018 By SnailMan1
Another quick find once I finally found a route to GZ. TFTC.

Found it 07/21/2018 By estes01
Had to laugh at RPieperCo's log! Too funny. Glad I didn't read it before ernie66 and I went to get this cache or I would have been on high alert. We saw the cave on the way back, but no vulture. Guess it had enough of us cachers. Great spot, although we chose a difficult way to get to it. Interesting story on the C-47 crash. Thanks for the hike and the history.

Found it 07/21/2018 By ernie66
Out hiking with estes01 and decided on the Spruce Mountain loop. We chose a bad way to get down to the cache but took a much easier and more direct path back to the top. Nice easy find once we got to GZ. TFTC!

Found it 06/22/2018 By D_Brown
Found it!