The Ophir Pass off road trail is rated as a 3-4 difficulty trail (on a scale of 1-10). Depending on road conditions you can make this trail in a stock pick-up, SUV, Jeep, and possibly an AWD crossover with some decent clearance. The road is rough in a few places from the Silverton side and you will want to have 4WD capabilities. There is a narrow loose rock section from the Ophir side, I only recommend going down this way unless you have good clearance and a locker in your axle as the rock likes to slip and a vehicle with open differentials might have some real issues trying to get up it. Going down this should not be an issue and it is a beautiful drive.
Once you get to the top of the pass you will be sitting at 11,789 feet of elevation. As you look South and up, you can see a trail going up the mountain, you will need to go up that trail to get to the cache. The cache sits at 12,030 feet and has a pile of rocks around it, as well as a large flat rock on top of it to keep it from moving down the mountain.
This road closes after the first snow, and usually opens in April to May, so this cache will be a late Spring, Summer, and early Fall cache to hunt. Even if the road is open, the trail to the top where the cache resides will remail covered in snow for some time. It is a steep climb, ice and snow will make this cache near impossible to get to. Plan ahead, use common sence, and be smart.
Additional Waypoints
P07R830 - Parking
N 37° 51.044 W 107° 46.764
Ophir Pass Cache
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