GCQ7DN Traditional Cache Alta Lakes 'Canadian' Cache
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular Regular | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 3 out of 5
By: Dave & Sonya @ | Hide Date: 08/20/2005 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N37° 53.056 W107° 50.755 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 8
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Cache is located in the Alta Lakes campground south of Telluride and Mountain Village. Take 145 to the Alta Lakes access road. Cache is accessible via any vehicle to within 100 or so ft. Our GPS accuracy was only 90 ft. so you may have to look carefully!

Drive up takes you through the Alta Ghost Town (very well preserved) and ends at the Alta Camp Grounds... nice place to spend the night if you are camping or simply going to have a picnic!

Cache is a clear plastic container with a aqua lid. Original contents included:

logbook, pencil (unsharpened), 2 pens, poncho, ball and jack set, batteries, clock, stickers, wipe board, bug wipes, hand sanitizer wipes, band-aids, baseball, deck of cards, 3 good luck bracelets, puzzle book, nail clippers, lizard hook.
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11 Logs: Found it 10  Didn't find it 1  

Didn't find it 06/29/2019 By wildteach
Had fun riding up here with our son in law. Never could get closer than 171’ according to our GPS— and compass pointed up a bank covered deep with snow. Road had just been cleared all the way to lake the day before.

Found it 07/24/2018 By fshnfvr
Found with Colenixbones. Cache is in great shape. TFTC.

Found it 07/23/2018 By colenixbone
Spectacular area! Great cache.

Found it 07/21/2018 By hasteplague
Dope

Found it 07/21/2018 By Jace Cavness
Under some rocks

Found it 07/17/2018 By mikebunny
A fun little hike to this cache. Thanks for the hide! We signed the log, put some toys inside and re-hid the cache. Gotta love Colorado!

Found it 06/30/2018 By nclyga
This may be my new favorite campground. It was absolutely beautiful up here, today. Thanks so much for bringing us to this awesome place!

Found it 06/23/2018 By mesa finds
Nice find in a beautiful spot!

Found it 06/12/2018 By Hikermama3
Found it, adding a new paper for the log, tftc, enjoying our paddle board and kayak here today

Found it 09/27/2017 By GrayFinders2
drove up and parked at the lake. walked up to the cache slipping on the snow on the wooded slope. cache concealment mostly covered by snow. walked partially around the lower lake.

Found it 09/10/2017 By bellstar
Got this at the start of our Alta Lakes hike. Nice spot. We hiked from here through the lakes, up across the scree field and then snuck down behind the Palmyra Mine. Great trip for a day hike. TFTC
Palmyra Mine from above

Stumps in Middle Lake