GCG471 Traditional Cache Cabin above St. Mary's Falls
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular Regular | Difficulty: 4 out of 5 | Terrain: 4 out of 5
By: jjasks @ | Hide Date: 05/17/2003 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 46.181 W104° 55.223 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Dogs  Not Recommended for kids  Difficult climbing  Bicycles 
Located at the top St. Mary's Falls
Found this old cabin when I first moved out here and have been wanting to place a cache here for a long time.

I needed to place the cache to the South/SE of the cabin to insure it was not in the open.

You will find it about 100 feet up the hill and hidden between some rocks on the ground (geo rock stack)

It is a standard ammo can

  • Access from the West at Wye Campground via Road 381 (~1500 Vertical Feet) - I think this route is shorter and easier. If you have a 4x4 you might get real close - clearance is the key. On the way there on this route you will be in the shadow of Mt. Rosa which seems to provide some of the head waters to all merge for St. Mary's Falls. Total trip can vary depending on how close you can drive, I would plan around 5-8 miles
or
  • from the East via Helen Hunt Falls / Gold Camp Road (~2000 Vertical Feet)- On this route you have the ability to really spend an entire day caching total trip about 5.5 miles (if you come from Helen Hunt Falls) 7 miles from Gold Camp

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12 Logs: Found it 11  Didn't find it 1  

Found it 06/15/2019 By Kerewin0430
Left the North Cheyenne Canyon parking lot at sunrise this morning with 2 goals: summit Mt. Rosa before the weather rolled in and pick up a few specific higher-altitude caches for a challenge I've been working on. Skipped a bunch of caches along the way due to previously posted DNFs, which freed up quite a bit of time to explore elsewhere - after summitting, I dropped south to Pike's Cave and then down to FR 381 (recon'd it back to where the trail crosses it - it's in great shape!), detoured to St. Mary's Falls, and even finally got to Four Paws. What a GREAT hike! I had been putting this one off due to trail reports talking about bullets whizzing overhead(!!) but those must have been from the Frosty Park approach - today's hike was quiet and felt totally safe. My fitbit clocked me in at 20.15 miles by the time the rain encouraged me to go back to the car. Thanks for placing this cache - found it on the way back down. Can you imagine the commute if you lived in the nearby cabin? :-P

Found it 06/01/2019 By eodbull1025
Whew you gotta want this one to find it. Cache is in good shape, dropped a paracord keychain. Tftc!

Found it 05/25/2018 By cody.moran21
So It took me two try’s to find this bad boy. Got it. Opened the can and it was bone dry other then the log book. I put an mountain tab and a uso American bandana in there for the next. Did enjoy it and had fun.

Found it 05/01/2018 By Hikermama3
Found it this time. Tftc

Found it 04/02/2018 By johnsonny
In typical fashion I made this find much harder than it needed to be. Left the main trail way too soon and bushwhacked my way through what felt like a fallen forest before finding the cabin. Then I looked up the hill and seriously doubted I wanted the find that badly. But I was too close to give up so up I went. Coords were good enough that it was an easy find. Thanks for placing this cache here and making my hike up Mt Rosa that much more enjoyable!

Found it 12/25/2017 By d4radio
Still in good shape

Found it 06/22/2016 By Mikejama
Finally was able to find this one on my third attempt...tftc..sl:)

Found it 06/04/2016 By estes01
Tried to get this one in February 2014 on a hike with ernie66. After he dropped about 3 feet into the hidden creek bed, we decided to give up. Today was a much nicer day - no snow, sunny and warm. No problem finding the cache. You took us so far up the hill, we decided to just keep going to the top of Cookstove mountain. Somebody reactivated a geocache up there :-) That was a fun hike and the cache was in great condition. Thank you.

Didn't find it 04/09/2016 By Hikermama3
Didn't find :(

Found it 08/09/2015 By Back Country Horsemen
Hiked on up here with weizen, OR85OR450 & my huggle (husband/muggle) after the C&C event at the falls. This was really my goal because I had just hiked to the falls in May but had run out of time and strength to go any further because we had already hiked 6 miles in the area. So today was the day. After stopping at the previous 2 caches, Finding the cabin wasn't too hard, it was the final uphill that was a real challenge while the other 2 just rabbited up. I swear I climbed 50' only to have my GPS get closer to GZ by 10'! But I do feel vindicated as I was the one to actually spot the cache & got to make the "I found it" call.

Found it 08/09/2015 By OR85OR450
Phew - glad four of us made the extra credit hike after the DGS event. We spread out and the goods were got. I think my gpsr was showing 29 feet at the pod - it was downhill and off to the left/ as you're facing up at the indicated GZ. Cache is in fine condition.

Found it 08/09/2015 By UMass72
Part of the "DGS: Climb & Cache St Marys Falls" group. TFTC.