GCC2D Rocky Fork
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Doug -n- Ann @ | Hide Date: 06/10/2001 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 20.508 W106° 48.873 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 1
     

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Located up Rocky Fork Trail in the White River National Forest - birds, butterflies, and flowers await you in spring and summer!

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The cache is a small camouflage container located not too far off the Rocky Fork Trail. BYOP as there is only room for a logsheet.

To get to Rocky Fork Trail travel up the Fryingpan Road out of Basalt, CO nearly 13 miles and watch for the Rocky Fork turn off. There are a few primitive campsites along the trail if you want to spend the night. Ruedi Reservoir is just up Fryingpan Road with a campground and boat ramp.

A note to fishermen/women - as Stanshow notes below in one of the logs - The fish in the beaver ponds are Colorado River Cutthroat. Because they are endangered (although it didn't seem that way at these ponds) they must be returned to the water immediately. Check the sign at the trailhead for tips on identification.

You will want to plan for a several hour hike (round trip)for the average person. The trail is rocky and steep for the first .75 - 1 miles but after that is pleasantly rolling. Elevation is above 8000 feet. Lots of flowers in the spring and summer months! Bring bug spray after June - although you really only need it for a 1/2 mile through a riparian area.

07/31/2017 By Hermoboat
This is a great hike and the geocache is really unique and fun to find.

10/20/2012 By Buttercup922
What a great place to hide a geocache. I have been on the trail twice before and enjoyed it even more this time to search for a cache. It was a beautiful day and a great way to spend the afternoon. Thanks!!

10/14/2012 By teamexplorers
TFTC Never guess we would run in to muggles out here?

06/08/2012 By jr-trickster
Thanks to eat and joes for the new container and log. what a great hike and great fishing. SL.

06/03/2012 By eat-at-joe-s
N39° 20.508 W106° 48.873
Coordinates changed from:
N 39° 20.514 W 106° 48.858

Coordinates changed to:
N 39° 20.508 W 106° 48.873

Distance from original: 79.4 feet or 24.2 meters.

I've changed the location slightly so here are updated coordinates.

04/25/2012 By eat-at-joe-s
Rocky Fork was transferred from starkdna to user eat-at-joe-s

04/23/2012 By eat-at-joe-s
A great afternoon hike. As said below the cache was in need of maintenance so I replaced the container, added some log sheets, and a ziplock in hopes that all will stay dry. Oh, I also took a pin. TFTC!

10/16/2011 By G.P.yeS
WOW! This is only my fifth but def a fav. Glorious day. Up from Eagle, doing some kiteboarding on the res. Location spot on but word is spreading through the critter community and they're trying hard to get in the caches. Holes chewed in Lid. Full of water. Did my best to salvage the contents. Notebook was more like a sponge but I was able to save 9 entries by drying the pages out in the sun. Sealed it back up with some duct tape and raised it off the ground. Took "STORZ" bottle opener. Left pin (forwarded from Sylvan Lake cache)

"Hapa" my faithful geosniffing companion

LId chewed
Drying contents on a warm river rock
Page dryer

06/23/2011 By yellowbug
Cache contents and container in bad shape - needs to be replaced. See log.

06/23/2011 By yellowbug
Visiting some friends in Basalt and doing some geocaching to see the area. Loved the hike to this one. Cache is in bad shape - lid cracked and full of water. We drained it out but too wet to sign log. It was sitting in the open about 100 ft from hint. We moved it to: N39 20.507, W 106 48.876 so it would be located where the hint said it was . We loved the hike to the cache - beautiful area! Thanks for bringing us here!