GC2CWHH Traditional Cache LSP&L North London Mill Switchback
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 2 out of 5
By: Grand High Pobah @ | Hide Date: 08/04/2010 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 17.047 W106° 08.347 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Dogs  Recommended for kids  Takes less than an hour  Available at all times  Not Wheelchair accessible  Parking available  Bicycles  Motorcycles  Quads  Off-road vehicles 
The cache is a 35mm container. While the cache is probably marginally winter friendly, the road to it is not.
NOTE WELL - It may appear that there is a turnoff at the cache location. DO NOT PARK THERE. Mother Nature is attempting to reclaim the area and driving on it will only put that effort back many years. PARK ON THE MOSQUITO PASS ROAD. Capiche!

This is one of the caches in a series of caches dedicated to Fallen Flag railroads. Fallen Flags are those railroads that no longer exist either through abandonment or corporate takeover. With each cache will come a short history lesson explaining a little something about the railroad.

LSP&L are the initials of the London, South Park, and Leadville railroad. It was a narrow gauge line (3’ between the rails) that ran between London Junction (Alma Junction) and the North London Mill, a distance of about 7 miles.

It is at approximately this location that the railroad placed a switchback for the purposes of gaining additional elevation. The climb to the mill was just too steep without the switchback. You can see the middle part of the switchback at the cache location. A little father up the road you can see the top leg on the side of the north hill.
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6 Logs: Found it 6  

Found it 09/26/2018 By GrandmaDizzy
I found the container, but the lid was missing and no log. I didn't have any logs small enough to replace it.

Found it 08/05/2018 By chiquita's bunch
We were hoping to make it all the way to Mosquito Pass but had to turn around at a very steep rocky hill a few miles in. The Subaru Outback didn't have quite enough ground clearance to tackle the loose rocks. We looked for this one on our way back out. Fairly quick find, no top was on the container but the log & ziploc were fine. TFTC

Found it 06/20/2018 By Boundertom
We were out doing some Jeeping, caching, and sight seeing, from Twin Lakes to Fairplay and back. Thanks for the cache!

Found it 08/01/2017 By Rojo464
A beautiful jeep trip over Mosquito Pass. A nice quick find, TFTC

Found it 09/07/2016 By 9-rushman&farmgirl79
A quick find but the lid was gone. The log was dry. Stamped the log and put it in a new baggie to protect it. I didn't have a lid with me so the next finders need to replace the film can lid. [8d][8d] SL TFTC

Found it 07/06/2016 By jahoadi and john
Sorry for the late log.

We had a great geocaching summer. It was our first trip to Colorado JEEPing and geocaching and we had so much fun. We found this on our way up and over Mosquito Pass..well the snow stopped us , but we still had a blast.

TFTC Jahoadi and John