GCQ081 Traditional Cache Happy Trails #2 - Tranquil Acres
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 2.5 out of 5
By: team w-bar-v @ | Hide Date: 08/02/2005 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 59.253 W105° 06.562 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 1
This one is a one mile round stroll with about a 200’ elevation gain.
Happy Trails caches are a series of quick and easy caches to be grabbed on the way to other caches in the neighborhood. This one is a little ways past the Tranquil Cache and takes you up on top of the ridge. This is a log only cache in a 35mm camo’ed film can so bring your own pencil.
Best parking is at N38-58.926 W105-06.363. This trailhead is a south-east entry designated FS717A into the Signal Butte Multi-Use Trail System that extends from Woodland Park west to Lake George and north of Highway 24. It is a popular network for use by ATV’s and motorcycles and the reason for the extra star in rating terrain is the extra level of alertness you must give while sharing the path with the occasional aggressive rider.
The first and last third(s) of this outing is walking the path up and back down with a close view of “up” but once on the ridge top, the trail can be very inviting to go on a lot further.
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13 Logs: Found it 13  

Found it 06/29/2019 By RumbleSeats
Thanks for the fun cache and the smiley.

Found it 03/25/2019 By nerak2001
Happy trails to you, too! Thanks for the hide.

Found it 12/16/2018 By Dean & Chris
Very quiet and peaceful here today. After the short (but steep) hike, we found the container. Thanks for showing us this place.

Found it 06/07/2018 By LLYN-lhvwn50
It was such a pleasant walk up here today. And nice placement. Thanks for another cache in this area.

Found it 12/14/2017 By Granitegrabber
I had a nice walk up the hill. This cache blended in with it's surroundings nicely.

Found it 08/09/2017 By allenmabry
10:35 AM Having completed our 64th Colorado county on 8/5, we are settling into a 2 week stay in Divide.

Today, my wife and I hiked 717A (and beyond), which starts just up the road from our favorite rental in Divide. I think we started at the suggested coordinates. This is the first cache we encountered. We then continue up FR308 before cutting across to rejoin 717A. We ended up intersecting Grouse Road and looping south and then walking CR25 back to the trailhead. Just over 8 miles in all.

Nice camo and a throw-back container. Enjoying the hike so far.

I signed the log below W&T and estes01 from last June. How cool is that? Thanks, team w-bar-v, for the cache.

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Found it 06/22/2016 By estes01
We laughed about the container, but had to admit that it had survived where many others hadn't. TFTC.

Found it 06/22/2016 By WingsAndTales
We actually walked past this one while on the middle of a conversation but just by a few hundred feet. The 10 year old container is still going strong. The log has gotten a little wet in the past but it was dry today. TFTC

Found it 07/09/2015 By jpfriden
Thanks that was fun. My wife spotted it first - for her first time!
The Fridenmakers

Found it 06/27/2015 By bymerkle
Nice find on a beautiful day! SL TFTC!

Found it 02/14/2015 By co_gps_guy
First visitor of 2015. Enjoying an ATVing day of sun, slush, ice, snow, and mud. Cache is in fine shape. TFTC!

Found it 08/09/2014 By chaprebdeb
I think NRNOODLE has missed Caching with Mr. this past year. It is always a cross country adventure. TFTC

Found it 08/09/2014 By nrnoodle
Grabbing caches with my favorite cache pals. Chaprebdeb and Sasquatchandwife TFTC.