GC5A80N Traditional Cache Marry Murphy Mine
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular Regular | Difficulty: 3 out of 5 | Terrain: 3 out of 5
By: OpenKerley @ | Hide Date: 08/04/2013 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 40.223 W106° 21.062 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0

Exploring the mines in the area and saw the flag on top of the mountain, so I thought there needed to be a cache here. The cache is large .50 cal ammo can located about 50ft from the summit under some rocks

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P15A80N - Park Here
N 38° 40.090 W 106° 21.060

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P15A80NPark Here Parking Area  08/04/2014 N 38° 40.090 W 106° 21.060 0.25 kms S 

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5 Logs: Found it 4  Didn't find it 1  

Found it 08/09/2016 By COpackrat
Was up in the area for the 4x4 event and came out this way for a little ride and hike. Thanks for the cache. Continued up Chrysolite after the find.

Found it 08/08/2016 By soonercache
Up from Okla. Out hunting caches on a day full of sprinkles. Hunting with SoonerBoy99 and Redball99. TFTC. Soonercache

Found it 08/25/2015 By estes01
The Mary Murphy Mining area is a very interesting place to visit, but being the first to find a cache that was placed two years ago was a real bonus. We searched for quite a while through the multitude of rocks when WingsAndTales suddenly startled me by yelling out "can!" It was a very large can (thank you for that). Fun drive up there on county road 297 :-) Excellent spot for a cache. Thanks!

Found it 08/25/2015 By WingsAndTales
I couldn't believe there was a cache in an area like this that had gone so long without a FTF. We saw other Jeeps, ATVs and dirt bikes but they were all headed for the lakes. After a drive in her Jeep to the upper part of the Mary Murphy mine we hiked to the cache on the summit and then over to this one. I think it took us about 10 minutes or so to track down the cache. The coords were good but there are a lot of places to look. We will have to come back and explore the road to Iron Chest Mine on foot since that didn't look like one we wanted to drive. TFTC

This entry was edited by WingsAndTales on Wednesday, 26 August 2015 at 12:52:13 UTC.

Didn't find it 08/16/2014 By Tom.dog
Hiking Chrysolite today and exploring the mines. Noticed a familiar name for the CO of this cache...haha. That meant that I had to come try for the FTF. Sadly, no joy here today. There were more people on their way up to the flag, so that didn't give me much time. Flipped as many rocks in piles as I could but didn't see it. Probably still there, I would just need a little more time to get it (rocks kind of kill me Smile). Thanks for the reason to come over to this awesome summit!