GCGEQE Traditional Cache Dynamite Shack
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular Regular | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 3 out of 5
By: Geo$ing @ | Hide Date: 07/12/2003 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 15.406 W108° 15.303 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 4
East Bound Interstate I-70, parking .3 mile past MP56, on right. Flat with a "little" uphill walk. If west bound you can walk under interstate in huge culvert, you must figure your own MP marker.
Within several hundred feet of the parking area, up canyon, on the left is the old dynamite shack with its door still intact. The cache is up the canyon out the door in front of the shack.

With your back to the sheer cliff and the cache at your feet, looking through the foliage you can see the door of the dynamite shack the Little Bookcliff Wild Horse area across the Colorado River (you can see river) and both lanes of the interstate.

Original contents are: Log and pen, patriotic bandana, new sealed corn cob pipe, clown fridge magnet, 7 boxes glow worms, Goofy bobble head doll, 2 dinosaurs, Cyalume, kaliedoscope, 2 Cricket piezo butane lighters, racoon on geode, $2 bill and Gold Dollar all in small ammo can.
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Look for bones on the groud around the cache, petite ones.

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11 Logs: Found it 10  Didn't find it 1  

Didn't find it 09/08/2018 By BLMBilbo
I own 183 caches and for all my back country, hard-to-get-to-sites I never make it hard to find the cache once there. Yes, found the owl pellets with all the small bones but the cache was not obvious at all after such a short, rough hike and you can be sure about my Army-learned expletives on that, unstable slopes, etc. Yes, this is more on the order of a D3T4 and maybe actually consider re-working it as a 3-4 or 4-4, so everyone will be perfectly ready.

Actually not a bad little adventure for me, especially the watchable wildlife, which actually may have been me. I stayed high on the way in and decided to head at a diagonal down and about 20 feet from the arroyo bottom and with the shack in sight, I noticed a movement out the corner of my eye upslope and right front. A cat! About 200 feet away, just apparently moved into place but just kind of sitting there, looking right at me and what a photo that will be! But when I went for the camera it took off fast across the slope and up-canyon, disappearing quickly. Looked about 5 feet long head to rump. That was pretty thrilling. I'd say just for safety sake, keep dogs and kids in close, and maybe don't do this one alone.

Found it 05/22/2017 By fishlogger
have driven by this cache so many times but never seemed to have enough time to try for it... so this time c-n-g and i made a point of looking for it... i too thought the cache would be close to the shack as it is not far off the interstate... tough getting to the site and could see the shack from the cache... got scratched up as we didnt wear long pants. saw the mini bones but cache was just sitting in the open on a rock so we moved to protected rock. T-magnetic NFPA and L-squeeze cowboy.. T4TC, SL.

Found it 05/22/2017 By Charlie-n-Geri
After many years of passing by this cache on I-70 we finally got to search for it with fishlogger on the way to caching near De Beque. Always thought that the cache was near the dynamite shack, but low and behold it was a long way beyond the shack through some tough bushwhacking and slip-sliding up the slopes to where we found it setting on a rock. Cache is in good condition. Placed the cache nearby in a protected location so that it would not fall off the cliff in rough weather. Thanks for placing this tough cache. Gave a couple of old guys a much needed workout.

Found it 09/30/2015 By PhantomWSO
On a road trip with Moose Mob to Mingo and the 2015 Geocoinfest in Omaha, NE. TFTC.

Found it 09/30/2015 By Moose Mob
Headed to Omaha and Geocoinfest with PhantomWSO. Stopping on occasion to sign a log book. TFTC





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Found it 07/19/2015 By $R
Well, this was WAY more of a hike than anticipated by the terrain rating. No clear path, rocky, shale. but persistence paid off and found the cache in good shape. this hike is not a level 3, not for the faint of heart, and DO NOT attempt without long pants and plenty of water!

Found it 07/19/2015 By Orchids2
Hike was VERY challenging. No clear trail, lots of growth in the natural vegetation. Cache was in good condition, signed log. NOT a level 3 terrain in my opinion.

Found it 07/19/2015 By CTroco
Way harder over game trails, loose scree, and steep terrain than a 3!! Found it. Forgot to leave my prize, but I won't go back.

Found it 06/19/2013 By trevwork
I thought is was going to be in the shack. I guess not.

Found it 04/29/2012 By kgid185
Out with Desertvs, got a call to go find this one. Passed it many times and figured I better gran this one when I had a chance. Glad we went to get it, really neat canyon that has limited visitors.
TFTC

Found it 04/29/2012 By desertvs
Out with kgid185 today for a daylight find. There is a small parking area if you brave the giant dip. I scraped the nose of the Grand Am a little.

I always wanted to check out the shack but never have till today. This is a neat little canyon, treacherous if you step wrong too! We found the cache after carefully picking our way up. Cool views near GZ. Cache was open when we found it. Maybe a large criiter could smell the eggs left in the cache. TFTC SL LN T-spawnsac from cache
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