GC2AWNE rg028
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: ronglaser @ | Hide Date: 06/26/2010 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 55.076 W105° 50.059 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0

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Bull Mountain Summit

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This is a 4.2 mile hike (mostly on a closed road) . I am kinda slow and the trip to place this one and 029 took 3 1/2 hours (round trip) from the parking place at the road gate. A rather pleasent walk, with about 600 ft gain in 2 miles. Follow the road until you see a fork -stay to the right (you can take the left fork and then bushwhack the N ridge..my return nearly did that except I took to the trees to avoid lightning and hail) . The road continuosly rises until about 0.2 from the cache. You will see the road begin to go down and a small cairn I erected on the left. Here I set off through the trees for the last 0.2 to the summit. The view is good, but interupted by trees. However, it is the trees that are are most remarkable. Here we see hundreds of years of struggle between lightning and life. The fallen warriors stand witness to a battle that continues even to this day. Bring your camera as giant hollow stumps, exquistitely weathered stump roots and a wonderland of pine shaped by wind, rain, fire, insects and birds makes this, in my estimation, an art gallery well worth the effort required for admission. There is one stump up there that has giant knot hole head high. It seems like the kind of thing you would see at a tourist trap in the Blackhills. Travel down the ridge toward 029 and you will find not only more tree sculpture, but sandstone mass wasting slumps that resemble carpet bombed villages. I returned by travelling down the ridge that trend north, set another cache, and finally was pushed off the ridge as the battle resumed as another afternoon thunderstorm brought lightning, thunder and hail. The first half in the woods was easy going, with a fairly clean forest floor and many brave trees doing their best to protect me and the cacher dogs. At a couple of points the dogs crawled under hollows logs briefly, but loyalty won out and they continued the descent with me. The last half mile or so has a fair amount of deadfall and more of a Blair Witch feel to it as I was yearning to step upon the road any minute that the map said must be there. By now, even my carthart jacket could not keep out the rain, and I found myself repeating the lyrics of a Fleetwood mac tune.."when the rain washes you clean you'll know...you will know..woh oh woh you'll know " Ah yes... the spirit of Bull mountain. I think am beginning to know her. More images for this hike are on rg029 description Update: rg029 will not be published due to container deficiencies So, if you are planning to go here, consider placing a cache near here and removing the rg029. I am uncertain when I will return to this ridge. Coordinates are 40.924489°, -105.829503° It is under a stack of rocks at an overlook. Well worth the walk along the ridge. Update: 029 is legal thanks to the FTF queen , Doglover3pups and her companions

08/11/2017 By budabeli
On a whirlwind trip up to Washington state, getting just a few caches along the way. Out fro Fort Collins exploring the back country past Cache la Poudre river; beautiful areas.

Did the loop for these two caches but it went from blue skies to dark and thunder in my 2.5 hour journey of discovery (so I skipped rg027). Seems like I was generally on trails when I was not on the roads... Tftc!

07/02/2011 By Denali41
I've been hoping to get to this cache and the other cache near the summit of Bull Mountain for a year now (as well as to RG027), but never have taken the time, until today. I had done insufficient advance map work, so rather than drive the Bull Mountain Road in to an acceptable parking location, I parked near Sand Creek Pass and hiked in from the south, hiking up the steep >1,000-foot escarpment on the south side of Bull Mountain. This is the same way that Denali Queen, Silver Trekker, and my puppy Teewinot and I used in our original climb of Bull Mountain several years ago, before the caches had been placed. That climb was in the spring, when the Bull Mountain Road was still impassable due to snow drifts.

So my puppy Teewinot and I simply repeated that route today, taking in the two caches and having a marvelous time. Signed both logs, soaked in the great views, and appreciated the day very much. Thanks for these great caches!

07/31/2010 By doglover&pups
FTF! Hubby-hubby's sister-Priscila and I made the trip to your cache. I guess we did not do our homework and we parked at the wrong gate. Did alot of heavy duty bushwhacking today and walked almost 5 miles. Our day started with us waiting for the tire shop to open so we could buy new tires for the truck. Noticed one going flat last week end. We didn't get out of town until around 9:30. We were well on our way up Bull Mt. when Mike noticed the front tire going flat. We stopped the truck and you could hear the air hissing out of this brand new tire. Mike had a few choice words to say and got down and changed the tire. We finally started our hike about 11:30 and ended about 3:30-not to bad. The views were beautiful and coords were right on. After we found the cache we walked over to 29. Found the plastic bag-signed the nice fresh clean log as FTF and put the whole thing in a decon box-the pen did not fit. So you might want to see if the reviewer will publish it now. We had lunch very near 29 and bushwhacked back to the car. Sis took one of the polished rocks and I dipped my favorite TB. Thanks so much for the caches and a wonderful day in the mountains.

06/27/2010 By HighCountryAdmin
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