GC1W3XD Lamborn
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: A & J - Adrift @ | Hide Date: 07/17/2009 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 48.169 W107° 31.361 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0

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This is as high as you can legally get in Delta county. At 11,396 feet, Mount Lamborn is the county high point.

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The summit provides spectacular 360° views spanning more than a hundred miles. To the west you can see the flat expanse of the Uncompaghre Plateau stretching out to Mount Peale and Mount Tukuhnikivatz in the La Sal mountains. To the south you can see the San Juans. At the western most edge of the San Juans, solitary Lone Cone earns its name. To the north you can see the Grand Mesa capped by Crater Peak and Leon Peak, the Raggeds Wilderness, the high peaks of the Elk Range, and the Maroon-Snowmass wilderness. To the east you can look out on the vast expanse of the West Elk Wilderness. Looking below to the North-West lies Paonia. It's less than 6 miles away; but, an impressive 5,700 feet down.

The cache is not over the edge.

However you choose to approach the cache, you should avoid the rough access roads when they are wet.

When we placed the cache in July, we were treated to a multitude of wildflowers. Another rewarding time to visit this cache will be in the autumn because of the abundance of aspen trees.

07/04/2018 By kekj
In the area again (4th yr) for Cherry Days and again looking at this cache! It has long been on our bucket list but with reestablishing a business & building a home in Delta we just have not carved out the time to make the all day foot trek up here. Just want the CO to know it may not have been found for a while, but not forgotten.
p.s. Same goes for cache on Mt. Sneffels! Both summits are visible from our front room windows, reason in part of why we bought the acreage

06/29/2016 By Carson&Jenny
Awesome hike up here!

05/29/2012 By joeoim
TFTC/TNLN
Good Hide, nice day.

07/04/2011 By polarisryder42
Always wanted to hike up there ever since I was a kid. Should have done it then cuz at 44 it hurt alittle. Found cache rather quickly and looked for the other log and bench marker in the area. Was planning on taking alot of pictures but had to crouch down behind a rock for about 20 minutes and wait for the high winds and sleet to break. Nice hike until I got to cache. Signed logged dipped coins and tbs for milage.

07/20/2010 By A & J - Adrift
Back on its feet with corrected coordinates.