GC2AP35 Traditional Cache Sport's Ptarmigan Peak
Type: Traditional | Size: Small Small | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 4 out of 5
By: WolfgangStiller @ | Hide Date: 06/23/2010 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 09.022 W106° 10.448 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Takes more than an hour  Scenic view  Parking available  No Off-road vehicles  Medium hike (1km-10km) 

Cache located near beautiful but rarely visited mountain summit.

Ptarmigan Peak can be reached easily by hike NE from Weston Pass (take highway five from the 285 near Fairplay to get to Weston Pass). The road from this side of Weston pass does not currently require a high clearance or a 4x4 vehicle.


The cache is located under some rocks in a pile and is visible if viewed at the right angle. Please replace the cache so that plenty of rocks on are on it but so it can still be seen.


The cache is within 40 feet of the summit . There is a benchmark near the summit that you can log.


Note, the summit is not where the cache is hidden. There is a summit register (currently a PVC tube) that is not the cache.

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Cache within 18 inches of a five foot stick standing straight up.

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5 Logs: Found it 4  Didn't find it 1  

Found it 09/06/2017 By duckhunter5000
Crazy rock pile! Signed the log sheet and replaced the jar. Thanks for an awesome cache!

Found it 08/01/2016 By carmelfox
Fun little peak!

Found it 10/15/2015 By WingsAndTales
I have wanted to come up here for a long time. Fall has been kind to us so far but it looks like that will change soon and I didn't want to pass up an opportunity to get up here. There is a 3 foot stick in the rocks near GZ and I spent a while looking near there with no luck. I finally looked up at summit where a bunch of sticks are standing out of the rocks and spotted a peanut butter jar next to the sticks. It was attached to one of the sticks with wire. Sure enough it had the original log that ernie66 and estes01 put in the new container. Someone must have moved it thinking it was the summit log. I didn't see the PVC one but it may have been down in the rocks.

I debated where to leave it and decided I should just leave it there. My reasoning was that if it got moved once it was likely to get moved again. At least this way no one would assume it is trash and remove it. Now that my brain has a little more oxygen I think I should have put it back at GZ but it's too late. There is plenty of room on the log sheet so it shouldn't be a problem for quite a while. As you say this is a rarely visited peak.

Thanks to WolfgangStiller for placing this cache. I love visiting places like this and wish more people took the time and energy to seek them as well. TFTC

Didn't find it 11/04/2013 By Spivey
I don't take these DNF personal. The summit was almost under 2 feet of fresh powder, and every crack between a rock was covered or stuffed with snow. I looked and looked, but today I can up empty handed.

But I still scored a 13,749 ft winter summit, and that is really all that mattered to me. I had the entire summit to myself in the beautiful day. I'll most likely stop by next summer and give it another shot.

Thanks for the awesome excuse to get outside today.

Found it 08/18/2013 By A & J - Adrift
After we found the cache, we dropped off the peak and continued on our way towards Horseshoe Mountain. We looked back. To our surprise, we saw the profile of someone bending over where the cache was. As we were making the drop off the slope towards Weston Pass on our return, we caught up the other cacher. It was COpackrat. It was fun to meet you High in Colorado today.