GC6NH57 Traditional Cache Pittsburg Knob Overlook
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular Regular | Difficulty: 4 out of 5 | Terrain: 4 out of 5
By: stubug @ | Hide Date: 07/15/2016 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 57.650 W107° 04.322 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Access or parking fee  Scenic view  Significant hike  Abandoned mines  Cliff / falling rocks  Parking available  Medium hike (1km-10km)  Seasonal Access 

Like to hike at high altitude? This geocache is for you. views of Mountains Gothic, Baldy, Cinnimon, Purple, Skuykill, Crested Butte, Anthrecite Mesa. Flowers and wildlife abound.

Placed by a conifer near a cliff.  Ammo box with geocache logo.

Please replace rock on top - very windy up there.

Thanks for checking it out - let me know if there is a problem.


 

There are two ways to get to this cache. The easiest is the longest. Park at the river crossing in Pittsburg, CO.

You can hike up the steep ridge, or travel along the road and head along the knob. The easiest way is to head up and north and find a path from the meadow through the cliff.

 

 

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4 Logs: Found it 2  Publish Listing 1  Owner Maintenance 1  

Owner Maintenance 07/14/2017 By stubug
Hiked up to the cache. Beautiful day. I left some clues which I posted. The cache is right where I left it. 2 log posts! Thank you - I left more custom tokens for those who dare to hike uphill in Colorado

Found it 07/24/2016 By eyincbco
Whew. I went the "easy" way up the east side of the knob. Had a a few "pucker" moments, picking 'through the cliffs'. Definitely challenging, strenuous and not for the faint of heart. If I were to do it again, I would probably just go for it, and go straight up the south face of the knob.

Mad props to "flutiste" for being the ginny pig, and snagging the FTF!

TFTC! TNLN.

Link to Photosphere: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9609518,-107.0719057,0a,75y/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1s-dtGstIQ6XDM%2FV5WTJ2LQBTI%2FAAAAAAAAElg%2FQcL5bdWucGs71QAx6FN5AvzVRXUwB95lwCLIB!2e4!6s%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2F-dtGstIQ6XDM%2FV5WTJ2LQBTI%2FAAAAAAAAElg%2FQcL5bdWucGs71QAx6FN5AvzVRXUwB95lwCLIB%2Fno%2Fphoto.jpg

Found it 07/23/2016 By flutiste
FTF! I earned this the HARD way! Don't go the way I did. We drove up the Poverty Gulch Road a few miles, and approached the geocache from the worst route possible on the west side of the "Knob". RockDoc gave up 1/3 of the way up, but I was determined. (There's a fine line between determination and stupidity!) I scrambled up an endless talus slope to a small cleft in the cliff. Trouble is, I had to come back down that way, and the only way I could do it safely was to "crab walk" down. I tore the seat of my pants. The path I took was dangerous, and I don't recommend it. Next time I do a cache like this, I'll plot it on the satellite photo first! My problem today is that we were flying blind -- however, it turned into a big adventure, and I survived!

The view up there is great! I enjoyed being there. Thankfully, the cache was really easy to find. After that horrendous climb up, I didn't want to have to search very hard for it! There's an easier way up on the east side of the "Knob", and I wish I had taken it!!! Either way, you have a steep climb of 1000' of elevation without a trail. High altitude hiking for sure! TFTC

Publish Listing 07/17/2016 By HighCountryAdmin
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