GC127A Bergen Peak Cache
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Bob, Austin, Anna and Jack @ | Hide Date: 07/25/2001 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 39.682 W105° 22.481 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 8

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Camera #7 has been placed in the cache on May 15th 2012 - take your photo! We also replaced the large stash box with a new Rubbermaid vertical container.

Camera #5 has been placed in the cache on July 4th 2007 - take your photo!

This cache is one third the way up a hill near the town where we live. It is only 5 miles from I-70, access is a good hiking or biking trail at an elevation of 8,234 feet.

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Location is Lat 39° 39.682' Lon -105° 22.481'
We took seven location measurements and averaged them. Accuracy on the eTrex was 17 feet.

as Written in the Bergen Peak Cache logbook . .

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Congratulations, you've found our Geocache!

This was hidden by our family on July 25, 2001. It is our first cache we have hidden. We have been up this peak many times. We have also found other caches. Our family put this cache together, thanks for coming! My name is Austin.

When you fill out your own log sheet in this book make sure that you write your name, date, difficulty, what camera you use, what frame you took your picture on, and what you put in the stash. Also you can put additional comments.

You are only allowed to take the items in the bags marked "trade", or not in a bag.
Please don't take the aspirin, band-aids, and camera.

Bergen Peak GeoCache Starting Inventory:

Directions: This cache is about 5 miles south of I-70, take exit 252 if you are going west on I-70, or exit 251 if you are coming from the east. Follow Evergreen Parkway to the Bergen Peak / Elk Meadow Open Space. You can park off of Evergreen Parkway at the Lewis Ridge Road parking lot, or take a left up Stagecoach Road, go two miles and park to the north of Stagecoach Road in the Open Space parking lot. The Cache is 1.5 miles from the Stagecoach Road parking lot, or .7 miles 'as the crow flies'. From the Stagecoach Road lot, follow the trail north, take several switchbacks uphill, take a left at every fork in the trail, there are several switchbacks. Take your photo with the camera in the cache, then go to this site to see your picture, and all the other visitors to our cache! http://www.rkcampbell.com/geocachevisits.htm

Good luck ! !

05/14/2019 By Denali41
icezebra11 and I have talked about getting out for a good mountain hike together, for quite awhile. It's been too long. So we've explored some options that would take us to a nice mountain summit, or to a good backcountry cache. Well, this as well as the cache at the top of Bergen Peak satisfied both of these goals! The one at the summit has been on our radar for a long time, and we then became super excited to discover that this great cache, having been hidden in July 2001, was along our hiking route! Wow! So my puppies Orizaba and Chimborazo and I headed south from Wellington this morning to rendezvous with Brad and his pup Angel at our standard ParknRide meet-up spot in Loveland, and headed for the Evergreen area. It has been a wonderful spring day for hiking, and we proceeded steadily up the trail system catching this and another cache en route to the summit. After a leisurely lunch and a couple of phone calls from the top, we searched for and found that treasure before making our way down to parking and the drive home through congested Denver traffic. We again stopped and rested near this great oldie durning our descent, talking further about what a great gift it was to be added to our hike. Thanks so much for it, Bob, Austin, Anna, and Jack! I have great admiration for the hiders and caretakers of the early geocaches, and I salute you! I'm so pleased that it's been cared for so well over all these years! Hopefully, icezebra11's maintenance actions will have preserved it for a longer period.

05/14/2019 By icezebra11
Denali41, his puppies Zaba and Chimi, my puppy Angel and I had a great hike today to Bergen Peak. The weather was very pleasant and we were happy to have the cloud cover at times to keep the heat down. This cache and Bergan Peak were our two primary objectives. It was really neat finding this fantastic "oldie"! When we arrived at GZ we found the cache out in the open with the lid off and the contents spread out. The container still had some items in it but it had a fair amount of water in it also. Fortunately the log book was in a ziplock bag and was completely dry. After signing the book we put everything back in order and re-hid the cache. All should be well again. Thanks Bob, Austin, Anna, andJack for keeping this old cache going all these years!!!

09/23/2018 By COHODAG
Found this one while exploring the amazing places in my own backyard! TFTC

06/14/2018 By magashi
easy find just off the trail! great views! a little hazy from wildfire smoke today. camera is full. left a trackable. tftc!

05/07/2018 By Erusar
Thanks for the great location set down and had a drink of water piece of jerky

03/31/2018 By stimy
TFTC

01/06/2018 By Teriyaki Donuts
I'm the dumbest geocacher ever! Although this was a logical find, I approached it through the forest from below. It would have been much easier if I continued along the trail. Duh!!! Anyway, it was a fun find!

01/03/2018 By TeamSerafin
Quick find..Nice spot

10/01/2017 By mbuettner
Took a pic!

08/19/2017 By Gemini Mission
Lovely picnic spot. Tftc

07/10/2017 By Jasper205
Quite a stash. Enjoying the Bergen Peak trail. TFTC.

07/03/2017 By LyleCrumbstorm
Fun find! Camera's a great touch.

The Burn Mountain Bike Time Trial was the greatest event in the history of mountain biking!

TNL$1 :)
GC127A

06/19/2017 By WingsAndTales
It looks like I get to log the 200th find on this excellent, old cache. It's hard to believe it hasn't seen more visitors in that time. This is a great place to hike and enjoy the views. TFTC