GC88JTX McKay Lake -- Subcutaneous fat
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: peace love pi @ | Hide Date: 05/29/2019 | Status: Disabled
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 57.334 W105° 00.776 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
             

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I am a natural klutz -- so much so that when my caching pals Periwinkle128 saw this patch in a cache, they thought of me. But still, as I was placing a group of caches around McKay Lake I suffered an inordinate number of flesh wounds. As I was climbing the tree to place this cache I managed to smoosh my upper arm fat between two branches... Ouch!

Subcutaneous fat sits under the skin, as opposed to visceral fat which surrounds the organs. Everyone has some subcutaneous fat, but lifestyle factors such as diet and exercise, as well as genetics, affect the amount of subcutaneous fat each person develops. This injury has motivated me to reduce the amount of subcutaneous fat I'm carrying around.

McKay Lake Trail is a 1.6 mile flat, concrete & crushed gravel loop trail where you are treated to ancient, towering cottonwood and willow trees along the south side of the small lake and uninterrupted views of the mountains to the west.

While you're here, check out the other caches around McKay Lake:

Shelob's Tree

Mondo's McKay Lake

McKay's Southside

Robuster's McKay Lake

Periodic Fable

McKay Lake -- Pronator quadratus

McKay Lake -- Flexor digitorum superficialis

McKay Lake -- Galea aponeurotica

McKay Lake -- Rhomboideus major

04/09/2020 By outdooradventurer95
This one was quite an adventure! TFTC!

04/08/2020 By robuster91
stopping by while taking my dog around the lake all is well tb visit

03/24/2020 By muscle_russell24
It was a little bit hard to get but really fun! TFTC

03/24/2020 By dzgamer
Wow nice hide

03/18/2020 By peace love pi
I'm really glad that there have been two recent finds here. I was unable to spot the cache from the ground and didn't have any appropriate climbing shoes with me today. I'm going to trust bobbyhobbs and Seek da Cache and claim that this cache is ready to be found by the next seeker. Happy caching!

07/03/2019 By mondou2
No joy here

06/25/2019 By Lord Mike
I stopped by today to try and grab this replaced cache. Made the quick walk to the tree and after going up and down a few times I finally spotted it. It's not an easy one to spot this time of year. SL. And this could almost be a higher difficulty and terrain.

06/24/2019 By peace love pi
The weather and the timing of when I'm in this area for work finally conspired to allow me to replace this container. The bad news is that the original birdhouse is irreparable - I guess you get what you pay for. The good news is is I was able to place the new container slightly higher. It is now a small bison tube. I have upped the difficulty to a 2.5 given the fact that you probably cannot see this from the ground and will have to hunt a bit when you're up in the tree. Happy climbing!

05/30/2019 By Fork L Man
went back found it on the ground TFTC/bruce

05/30/2019 By peace love pi
I will check on the container tomorrow, weather permitting. Until then thus cache us disabled.

05/30/2019 By capn_scallywags
Found by capn Scallywags and Stoney. Cache broke upon retrieval.. the top came off. The hide was abnormally placed in my opinion. Unable to place back in tree so I hid it on the ground nearby. Sorry.

05/30/2019 By Fork L Man
first to see the cache 15ft up the tree. this old guy with bad knees can't climb trees.

05/29/2019 By IgnotusPeverell
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