GC13BYP Traditional Cache 66 Minutes Out of the Way
Type: Traditional | Size: Small Small | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 3 out of 5
By: ernie66, vorticity, and cirrus142 @ | Hide Date: 06/02/2007 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 46.440 W104° 57.400 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 1
Dogs  Takes more than an hour  Available during winter  Parking available  Bicycles  Horses  Medium hike (1km-10km) 

A quick, log-only cache.

Vorticity, Cirrus142, and I were on the way to Scree Mountain and ended up on the wrong trail, losing a little over an hour. What to do? Hide a cache, of course! We found a great place called Nelson Camp. Oddly, Nelson Camp is on trail 668 and not on Nelson's Trail (672).

The cache is approximately an 8-mile round trip from parking at the lot at the intersection of High Drive and Gold Camp. There are good trails all the way...just don't end up on the wrong trail like we did!

Take Gold Camp Rd. uphill from parking to the Seven Bridges Trail (622). From 622, turn left onto 668 to follow Cheyenne Creek as 622 turns north towards Jones Park.

None of the trails have signs. If they did, this cache wouldn't even exist! Bring a map; the Pikes Peak Atlas accurately depicts all the trails in the area. Update 11/28/08: trails do now have signs! I'd still recommend bringing a map, though.

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11 Logs: Found it 9  Write note 1  Owner Maintenance 1  

Found it 05/05/2019 By STÜBBIFIED
Riding my new geo moto testing it out. Got my eyes on this one since last year. Today fighting the snow and terrain I made the find. TFTC

Found it 07/14/2018 By Ms.Stang
Out for a nice long hike on this beautiful Saturday. TFTC

Found it 06/23/2018 By YamaGypsy
First cache of the day. Lemonheadmafia and wanted to explore Jones park. All is in good shape. Sl, thanks!

Found it 03/24/2018 By supertroop82
Could not find my pen but I took photo of the log. I am section hiking Ring the Peak trail.
GC13BYP

Found it 10/22/2017 By Bokmeow
why did we do this cache today?? because it was "just right there!" we came the long way up through seven bridges and pipeline to get the rtp cache patriot dream. we had found all the other caches along the trail previously and decided to make this hike at least a two cache day. :) thanks so much for the little extra push at the end of the first leg. ended up being a nine mile day for us. :) cache was in great shape. we signed the new log and called it a day and turned around to come home.

Write note 09/07/2017 By rkster
Out with a bunch of friends hiking in the area and thought I would check on this cache. I was the FTF back in 07 and it is still in great shape. TFTC SL

Found it 05/16/2017 By Hikermama3
Found it. It's been a long time since I've been this way on the trail. And I wasn't geocaching back then. Thanks for leading me 66 minutes out of the way to revisit this area again. It's my last hike of the school year without kids so I figured I might as well make a long good one. Tftc

Owner Maintenance 08/14/2016 By ernie66
Visited the cache with estes01. Replaced log.

When coming from Seven Bridges, the best approach to the cache is to stay on the north side of the creek. The Ring-The-Peak trail crosses to the south side about half a mile from the cache.

Found it 08/14/2016 By estes01
A June 2007 ernie66 cache. Those were the days…I assume. It seems that the days of the epic hike to get to a cache are gone. Sure, a few people still attempt to do the more challenging ones, but only a handful. Most of the "usual suspects" have stopped caching. There are a few hardy cachers left though. So this cache is aptly named. It is definitely out of the way, no matter which way you approach it. I have been avoiding it for many years because it was just beyond what I felt like doing. Still, it's been nagging at me for far too long. What to do? Drag the cache owner with you…he needs exercise as much as I do, probably more. We came up 7 Bridges and followed the Pipeline Trail. But things got a bit confusing as there seems to be some rerouting going on. I'd follow the old trail even though it's a little overgrown and is a borderline "good trail." I'll let Ernie explain about the route. It's actually a very interesting area for a cache, but I'm biased.

Found it 04/27/2016 By OR85OR450
Hi- I made a long, sorta' isolated hike today to get some more trail & name knowledge under my belt... came as far as the RTP cache; knew I had to come on a little further! Amazing to look over the pipeline where it shows through, and imagine the project that must have been !!
No one in the whole region from the top of Cheyenne Canyon (with the construction road closure) at High Drive; all the way here & back until I was down to about bridge 3 or 2!
Cache is in perfect shape, I squeezed in a Pink Shoe. See ya!!

Pink Shoe on a mountain hike

Found it 10/31/2015 By Rob14erGuy
I'm glad we went 66 minutes out of our way to get this one! The trails are very nice and mostly snow-free. Thanks for the cache.