GC1DY69 Traditional Cache MALLET MASHER
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular Regular | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 2 out of 5
By: Meistermos and Muppets 5 @ | Hide Date: 07/05/2008 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 54.137 W105° 42.751 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Accessed by Corona Pass Road, 9.5 miles from US 40. Altitude at cache site is 10,915'. Park at N039 54.131 W105 43.074.
The locomotive engines, of Swiss design, built to drag freight up steep 4% grades were called Mallets. As you hike to this cache, you can see some of the remains of two Mallet engines that tumbled down the mountain in the early 1920s. Mallet Engine #210 had a broken brake line. Mallet Engine #208 was swept off the track by an avalanche. The crew of each of these trains survived.
We hope that you enjoy this walk -- the history and the wonderful view of the Arapahoe Range.
If you want a longer hike, you can park at coordinates: N39 54.800; W105 43.433. This will be about a mile shorter ride on the bumpy railroad bed of Corona and an approximately three-mile round trip walk.
This is a locomotive theme cache currently stocked with 10 small plastic trains.
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6 Logs: Found it 4  Didn't find it 1  Write note 1  

Found it 09/16/2018 By GrayFinders2
Missed the upper parking area, and ended up taking the longer walk to the cache. Loved the old trestles and found the cache easily! Thanks for the cache.

Found it 09/13/2016 By ldkloss
TFTC with Kirchgeo and geo puppy Dickens. SL

Found it 09/13/2016 By kirchegeo
Nice hide with ldkloss and geo puppy Dickens. Tftc sl

Found it 09/05/2016 By comtbkr
TFTC! In good condition.

Write note 07/05/2016 By GreencoreOutfitters
Visited the cache, found in great shape right where it should be. Retrieved a geocoin I dropped there two years ago.

Didn't find it 07/13/2014 By KA&JWest
Well, at the indicated parking spot there were a number of options. I chose to walk up the closed road which got me to the old railroad bed. I walked up the roadbed towards the trestle and got to within 200 feet of the cache. 200 feet straight down the embankment. That can't be the right approach!

I shall return.