GC1FCAE Traditional Cache Beetle Kill Too - 40 X 40 #4
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular Regular | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 2 out of 5
By: cocoalminer @ | Hide Date: 08/18/2008 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 21.636 W106° 46.750 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Recommended for kids  Takes less than an hour  Scenic view  Available at all times  Parking available  Park and Grab 
Medium cache with room for swag and it also contains a pen and pencil. This cache resides at 8083 feet in elevation.
This is cache number two in my beetle kill series, and it is also cache number four in my 40X40 series. It is a medium black container near one of the survivors of the beetle kill epidemic. There are thousands of beetle kill trees in this National Forest.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_beetle
This very old gravel section of Highway 40 dates from before 1919. It skirts the edge of the mountain because earth-moving equipment in those days were not readily capable of removing the type of rock and soil that was required by the modern highway you traveled here on. It replaced the first road from the east into this area as a shorter, summer only road. Winters on this mountain are long and the snow is deep and was beyond the capacities of the snow removal equipment from that era. The original Highway 40 can still be seen if you look over the edge of the mountain to your south. It snakes along the Yampa Valley floor and winds it’s way past scenic Catamount Lake. Take the time and your camera to admire this view; it will be worth your time. The Sarvis, or Serviceberries were plump and ripe and delicious when I placed this cache here in mid August. Be sure and look for those too. They are dark purple to black berries on a short bush.http://www.bentler.us/eastern-washington/plants/shrubs/serviceberry-bush.aspx
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10 Logs: Found it 10  

Found it 07/02/2019 By GJF2003
Hidden in the brush, TFTC!

Found it 06/11/2019 By Unkemptpayload
Found it, thanks!

Found it 05/18/2019 By rvls
Thanks for the quick find. Second in cnty.

Found it 05/18/2019 By RGSchreiner
5/18/19 RGS

Found it 11/21/2018 By JeepDC
Tyftc :)

Found it 09/11/2018 By mom & pop
We came up to this area for a week caching & haveing a great time SL Thanks

Found it 06/30/2018 By Keylargodunns
Got it!

Found it 06/30/2018 By JTgirlz
Wow, the aspen trees are beautiful! Had to do a little bit of bushwhacking but all is well.tftc

Found it 06/29/2018 By zanna
Out from Atlanta exploring Colorado with FLtravelers for a few days. He was able to finish all his counties, while I made more progress on the state. Lots of fun caches were found along the way, including this one.

TFTC

Found it 06/29/2018 By FLtravelers
Flew out to Denver with zanna to grab a cache in the smattering of counties I had left in Colorado. Along the route we stopped for highly favorited caches, virtuals, earthcaches, webcams, Colorado's oldest, and whatever else that looked interesting. This was certainly one of these. Great spot. TFTC.