GCK7J1 Traditional Cache 4x4 7-Mountain Goat Cache
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular Regular | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 3.5 out of 5
By: n0wae @ | Hide Date: 08/07/2004 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 39.031 W105° 46.633 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 5
Scenic view  Not Available during winter  Motorcycles  Quads  Off-road vehicles 
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Mountain Goats!
Vista parking place

This is the 7th in a series of 4x4 caches that offer the unusual, scenic vistas and/or a challenge. This one offers all three.
Use the directions to GCK7HV but continue north on FDR248.1 towards Ganley Mountain. (The road will double back south to the cache). This is a very scenic but narrow shelf road with tight switchbacks. Short wheelbase vehicles recommended. The cache is near the top of McClellan Mountain which is Mountain Goat territory. The vista of Kelso Mountain and Stevens Gulch is breathtaking! Please cover the cache well. Thank you.

CA4WDCI road rating of 4

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11 Logs: Found it 10  Write note 1  

Found it 07/30/2018 By SALMON-629
Out caching with GotYour6. TFTC

Found it 07/30/2018 By GotYour6
A Jeep adventure and get a geocache-perfect! Thanks for placing this cache for us to find!

Found it 07/16/2016 By Killian33
Nickgatt, my geohound Cuervo, and I found this one while doing a little 4X4ing near the Waldorf and Santiago Mines. TFTC SL.

Found it 07/16/2016 By nickgatt
@17:38:00 #25948 Killian33, her wonder dog, Cuervo and I drove up Leavenworth Creek and found a few caches on the 4x4 trail! TFTC

Found it 08/23/2015 By KingJR
today is not disappointing in the views and sucking wind! Another great cache hide found with TRR! Thanks!

Found it 08/22/2015 By Takes the Hard Way
Spent the day jeeping with Team Red Rubicon and grabbed a few caches along the way!
SL
on the way to the top....

Found it 08/22/2015 By Mountain Roamer
Spent the day jeeping with Team Red Rubicon and friends today.

We ran Argentine Pass and McClellan Mountain. It was a really long day. We started up the trail around 9:30am and didn't get off the trail until 9:00pm. We got in some fun night jeeping!

Somehow we all squeezed in to the parking area t the top. The views are amazing from this spot!

Thanks!!
view along the trail to the cache

Found it 08/22/2015 By jpit
Out for a great day of mountain wheeling with Team Red Rubicon. Although the views were awesome, they were hazy from the smoke coming from the wildfires way up in the Pacific Northwest.
I left an unactivated Traildash Superchips Tag for another cacher.

This entry was edited by jpit on Sunday, 08 November 2015 at 04:26:59 UTC.
Smoke in the air

Found it 08/22/2015 By Team Laxson
Out caching with Team Red Rubicon today on these narrow and windy roads. This spot was far less windy than our previous stops for the day, and wow the view from here is amazing. Soaked up the scenery for a bit before continuing on to a rarely used side trail.

SL
(2840)

Hiking trail to Grays and Torrey's

Write note 10/15/2014 By Team Red Rubicon
4x4 7-Mountain Goat Cache was transferred from n0wae to user Team Red Rubicon

Found it 08/01/2014 By stickley-family
2nd cache of the day for us... a great bonus after jeeping to this awesome spot. Absolutely breathtaking view!
What a view!