GC1XJY0 Traditional Cache Blue Lake Pride Rock
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular Regular | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 3 out of 5
By: llason @ | Hide Date: 08/19/2009 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N37° 18.974 W105° 08.285 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Dogs  Access or parking fee  Recommended for kids  Takes less than an hour  Scenic view  Dangerous Animals  Parking available  Camping available  Short hike (less than 1km) 
A cache close to Blue Lake, off Scenic Highway of Legends, Highway 12, Cuchara, Co
We love fishing at Blue Lake and often catch trout here! Off Highway 12 is about a 5 mile drive into the mountains to Blue Lake. Nice parking lot, with a beautiful little lake.

This cache is a small hike up the hill to the left of the parking area. Park then just past the gates is a trail to the left. Follow it up to a large rock that looks like Pride Rock from "The Lion King". Kids love to sit here and play! The cache is hidden close to this rock. No need to dig.

You are looking for a plastic cache box with room for trade items, and a log. This is bear country, so keep a lookout, and use common sense. Do not put anything in the cache that has an odor, bears will tear apart anything that smells like food.

This road is closed seasonally due to snow pack. It is a summer cache! Enjoy the scenery! It is rated a 3.0 on the terrain because there are several ways to scramble up here, the hardest is from a little bridge that leads to the lake, very rocky but my kids favorite!

This is a pay for parking area, unless you have already paid to camp. Please make sure to pay to support the forest service and all the good they do (road grading, stocking the lake, maintaining campgrounds, fishing areas and much much more). The pay brown pole is clearly marked. Thanks!

Make sure to hide BETTER than you found it using natural cammo!
Congrats to Me & Bucky for FTF!
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Face pride rock on the trail, then turn around & look down.

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10 Logs: Found it 9  Write note 1  

Found it 06/10/2019 By Jonas and Julia
We stopped by to look for this cache while road tripping from Chaska, Minnesota. It was quite a drive up the mountain, and a bit chilly too, but we are hardy Minnesotans. Smile Left a TB for the next finder to move further along. Thanks!

Found it 06/09/2019 By Stewandfamily663
Awesome hide! Got my buddy from Scotland into geocaching!

Found it 05/31/2019 By nmsunsets2
Beautiful. Wish we had time to fish. Took a couple tb’s. Left a pathtag. If you take it please log it and tell me where you found it and your story. The road is a little Muddy but doable TFTC. We love ammo cans

Found it 05/26/2019 By luckydog7788
Great day to be outside! Tftc

Found it 09/26/2018 By chilidogbarb
TYFC! Aspens are golden what a beautiful mountain lake! TNLN.

Found it 09/15/2018 By NakedNHappyHunter
On a many month & state caching adventure. Took a quick break and found this.
Found with GoofyBareHunter

Found it 09/15/2018 By GoofyBareHunter
Found with NakedNHappyHunter while on a road trip across country......
TFTC!

Found it 08/28/2018 By Leapin' Lee
Great find with a couple of newbies. We’re all from Texas. Tftcsl

Found it 08/07/2018 By Tribe Ward
Tftc, what a great place to see, especially with grandkids.

Write note 06/25/2018 By LeewayeDiscGolf
Visited with mldisc on a fishing trip. Young Hummers your log stamp is in the cache.