GC1TFCX Scout's Shavano Stash
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: WolfgangStiller @ | Hide Date: 06/08/2009 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 36.835 W106° 13.838 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
                   

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A stash of some goodies on the way in to Mt. Shavano (close to the trail).

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Scout's Shavano Stash provides an incentive to keep going on the route to the summit of Mt. Shavano. It also provides a great view of the Angel Snow field that you are about to cross so you can consider what route you'd like to take. I placed this cache in early June of 2009. The angel and the summit had a lot of snow (I was unable to reach the cache on the summit due the deep snow) the area where I placed the cache was totally snow free so this should be good location for most of the year.

As is my standard, the cache is hidden in plain sight but you have look at just the right angle to see the camouflaged container.

We placed this cache on our way down the mountain and for some odd reason we were only able to get 37 foot accuracy on both our PN-40 and 60csx. (On the way up we had 9 foot accuracy!) I don't want this to be a needle-in-a-haystack type of find so I am providing some more information on how to find the cache. Feel free to print the picture of the location of the cache below to make sure you don't have to search too large an area. (Updated coordinates would be welcome but be sure to tell me your GPS type and its estimated accuracy) Look carefully at the dark gap (bottom center of photo) in the rocks below. That's the location of the cache. You can see it by by looking into the gap but the cache is camouflaged so it's not that obvious.

09/16/2017 By johnsonny
Found it after a few minutes of searching. I didn't have a pen(cil) and there wasn't one in the cache so I didn't leave my mark on the log, but I can describe it to the CO for verification if need be. Thanks for hiding this cache!

08/28/2017 By pmodell
DNF.
Went to GZ. Piles of rocks everywhere. Looked under a few. DNF. Trouble coming down steep, loose slope.
Summited Shavano, though.

09/21/2016 By Burnt Turtles
11:51am Wednesday 9/21/16
In the area from Davenport, IA for a family vacation and so I can check off another 14er. Reached the summit at 10:56am. I couldn't see 100 yards in front of me so I did not go after Tabeguache or the cache. Next time. I had a list of 10 (9 not counting Tab.) cachès I wanted to grab in the area. I found 8! This was my first time caching a 14er. It makes coming down much more fun. Thank you

07/23/2016 By JMKR
We turned around a little above here due to early arrival of the afternoon clouds. Second-guessed it halfway down when the sky cleared briefly, but the thunder was starting by the time we were heading back along the CT. 11.5 mi round trip from the campground. The peaks will have to wait for another day. TFTC

07/11/2016 By sharksinthepool1
TFTC! Beautiful day for a hike up shavano although a bit windy!