Something For Everyone: East Ascent

12/09/2018 By icezebra11
After finally finding and logging Southern Outcrop I headed up hill on the east approach. I was fortunate that there wasn't much snow and was able to get to GZ in relatively short order. But locating the cache was definitely not done in short order! Just like Southern Outcrop, this one gave me a hard time. I was up, down, and around the outcrop several times looking for this elusive cache. I'm pretty sure I was in locations that deserved much higher T ratings than the 4 that it's given. Like Southern Outcrop, I think this one took me roughly 1/2 hour to locate. My GPSr kept pointing me to the east end of the outcrop and up. There were several spots that fit the hint's description but none of them held the cache. I finally looked further west than my GPSr wanted me to be and I ended up finding it. Well hidden, just like the others. Thanks Triggur!!!

07/01/2015 By Pixel Magic
This one eluded me. I searched a long time, circling a bit, close to GZ. Up and down I went as I sought to get a better vantage point into the caves. I searched the crevices but could not come up with this cache. Spent more time than I wanted to at this spot and this accounted for my late arrival time rejoining Renee at the trailhead.

06/14/2015 By FoCoGeoClan
This was the 3 of 5 caches in the area today. Getting to this location certainly required a bit more physical exertion than the first two. Like the previous cache, I originally went to the wrong spot before we figured it out. We had a caveman in our swag bag that we left. Thought he would like this spot. Thanks for another great one.

05/19/2014 By Denali41
Denali50 and I arose this morning expecting our normal Monday morning activities–feed the pets and ourselves and then head in to Fort Collins for 2 hours of gym classes followed by delivering Meals on Wheels on our Monday route. We got all prepared, with gym bags and other things placed in the car. I had a few minutes to check e-mails before we needed to leave at 7:15 AM, and did so. Checking e-mails changed the day–not the six new caches that were published just north of Elkhorn Creek, but ONE specific one: the one having a 4.5 Difficulty/4.5 Terrain rating (Top Rock). For several years I’ve been attempting to complete the Fizzy Grid with only FTFs in each of the 81 grid cells. I’m down to six cells, and expect these six to require several more years to attain because the combinations are unusual, plus the caches need to be within reasonable distance from home base in order to chase the “first” on the find. When I saw the 4.5/4.5 combination, I immediately planned a different day than the one we had just about embarked on! It was suddenly a very “rare” day, indeed! As always, Denali50 was understanding as I transferred Egoscue mats and Meals on Wheels coolers from one vehicle to another for her, and got my day pack ready and my puppy Orizaba set up for several hours in the backcountry.

I drove to the Elkhorn Creek Trailhead and headed north with my puppy Orizaba until we were confronted with a raging creek. Following it downstream for about 1/3 mile brought us to a reasonably safe crossing which didn’t take us far from a straight-line track to the first of the six new Triggur caches. From that point on everything fell nicely into place, and we picked off the {FTF}s on each of these six beauties; I’m now down to “only” five cells needed for my FTF Fizzy Matrix. The day ranks “way up there”!

East Ascent was the last of the six caches on our agenda. From there we again made the tricky crossing of the creek at the location I had waypointed when we came in

Thanks, Triggur, for a very interesting, full experience. You’ve placed some challenging caches in this series. I was delighted with each placement, and the views from certain cache locations are stunning. And my puppy Orizaba was excited over the entire loop!

05/18/2014 By Alpine Reviewer
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