GC1VH2N Traditional Cache Alpine Gulch Adventure
Type: Traditional | Size: Small Small | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 3 out of 5
By: Nichols Family @ | Hide Date: 07/05/2009 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 00.881 W107° 21.534 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Nice jaunt on a beautiful trail just 2 miles from Lake City.
Wild raspberries, strawberries, columbine, wild geranium, bluebells, mountain alder, red osier dogwood, baneberry, twinberry, elderberry, cow parsnip, spruce, fir ... the list goes on. Beautiful, lush riparian vegetation along Alpine Creek.

Drive, bike, or walk about two miles west of Lake City towards Capital City on the Engineer Pass Road to the Alpine Gulch Trailhead. Cross Henson Creek on the bridge and head up Alpine Gulch. Cache is within 20 feet of trail. Cache is old BPA water bottle. Contains log book and small treasures. Please re-hide well as it is close to the trail.

Reception down in Alpine Gulch isn't the greatest. I was getting 5 satellites and +/- 26ft on my eTrex at the location and not as good at other spots along the trail. See hints if necessary.
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Cache is under a fairly obvious bit of log between the first and second creek crossings on hikers left once the trail enters a nice stand of mature spruce.

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

Didn't find it 07/08/2017 By ADMX
The area the cache is supposed to be has several fallen trees the cache might be no longer accessible.

Didn't find it 07/21/2015 By cb_beauty
We suspect the cache has been muggled. The hike here was well worth the visit.

Didn't find it 07/21/2015 By SoldierGrrrl
Well, CB_Beauty and I had a great hike out to the area. Our creek crossing was a bit more hairy than other pictures. I am 98% sure we found the hide location, a carved out log section, but no cache container.

Found it 08/20/2013 By elko dealers
What a awesome hike to the cache area.Cool
We had ripe berries, mushrooms, flowers and nice running creek all the way to the cache.BigSmile
I think we will be going back to the Jeep faster then we hiked to the cache for a storm is moving in.Frown
Can't say the foot bridge was real even!!!!Shock
Container is in good shape and we replaced as we found.Evil
SL T4TH

Didn't find it 08/20/2013 By jetmack61
Tried to find twice. Got hailed with pee to marble size hail the second time. I'm thinking someone took it cause we spent lots of time looking for it.