GC7ARAC Here Comes The Sun!
Type: Multi | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: RPieperCO @ | Hide Date: 08/21/2017 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 54.375 W104° 49.804 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
                           

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It’s not mandatory to listen to The Beatles while searching this series, but you should!

 

***Please read below for important warning!!

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Here Comes The Sun

Written by: Harrison
Recorded: 7, 8, 16 July; 6, 15, 19 August 1969
Producer: George Martin
Engineers: Phil McDonald, Geoff Emerick

Released: 26 September 1969 (UK), 1 October 1969 (US)

George Harrison: vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonium, Moog synthesiser, handclaps
Paul McCartney: backing vocals, bass, handclaps
Ringo Starr: drums, handclaps
Uncredited: four violas, four cellos, double bass, two piccolos, two flutes, two alto flutes, two clarinets

Available on:
Abbey Road
Love

George Harrison's second song on Abbey Road was written on an acoustic guitar in the garden of Eric Clapton's house in Ewhurst, Surrey.

Here Comes The Sun expressed Harrison's relief at being away from the tensions within The Beatles, the troubles with Apple and the various business and legal issues which at the time were overshadowing the group's creativity.

"Here Comes The Sun was written at the time when Apple was getting like school, where we had to go and be businessmen: 'Sign this' and 'Sign that'. Anyway, it seems as if winter in England goes on forever; by the time spring comes you really deserve it. So one day I decided I was going to sag off Apple and I went over to Eric Clapton's house. The relief of not having to go and see all those dopey accountants was wonderful, and I walked around the garden with one of Eric's acoustic guitars and wrote Here Comes The Sun."

George Harrison
Anthology

 

Now that all the history is there, onto the cache information!

 

****When placing this cache I did run into a 4 foot rattle snake. Walk slowly, but loudly, and watch where you place your hands!! Be alert!!

 

 

This type of puzzle was brought to my attention by another cacher.  At least a dozen pictures were shared and I simply could not figure out what this was.  Eventually, (Hours later?) something came up on a google search.  I was just in love with this idea and concept.  As with many of my caches, inspiration (theft?) abounds from other's caches!  This is a unique design I've never come across and I will be happy to assist.

 

What you will need....  A sunny day! Clouds just won't do I promise!  If not, then a dark place and a flashlight, car headlight, or any single source light.  There will be plenty of times that you simply will not be able to do this cache.  I would caution against night caching as the area is pretty dangerous.

 

The final is within 200' so you should be able to determine which is N and which is W. Just in case, Brown is N and Black is W.

 

The location is a spot that I love!  Great lookout spots, old ruins, and unique exposed rocks.  It used to be the location of an older cache named "Robber's Roost".  For those that found it, I hope a return trip is just as enjoyable.

 

Please if you get stuck or can't figure it out, feel free to contact me.  I'm always happy to help!

 

Additional Waypoints

P07ARAC - A little rough, but my car can make it!
N 38° 54.356 W 104° 49.726

03/17/2019 By chihuahuajill
What an adventure! I also couldn’t get the coords from the puzzle pieces despite knowing how to do it. Only one PAF answered me and didn’t have the precise coords to the final. I went at it letterbox style from the PAF’s description, the terrain rating, and knowing it was within 200’. Soon thereafter I had the cache in hand. Everything was going well for until I slipped in the mud near my car! Thanks for placing this cache for me to find. TFTC.

11/06/2018 By COpackrat
I needed a lot of help with this one, and I still spent a LOT of time at WP1. Good thing I have friends who can mega help me! Thanks for the totally unique cache.

09/26/2018 By Qaz
Here Comes The Sun! was transferred from RPieperCO to user Qaz

08/18/2018 By gampa&gamma
We decided we needed to end our caching streak today (1002 days) and what better day to do it than on National Geocaching Day! We wanted one of our finds to be by one of our favorite CO's. We had chosen this cache a week or so ago and headed out early this morning.

It was an overcast day that had no hope of clearing during the time frame we had to cache. We found the first stage of this multi with little problem and set about trying to determine the coordinates. We even tried a few tools of the trade that we had on us. No joy :O( We realized we were going to have to return when the weather was on our side. gamma loves areas like this, so we hung around awhile to explore. We found a very cool "canyon" that would be great for a cook out/sleep over!!

As we were ready to leave the area and head to another "end-our-streak-cache", gamma noticed something interesting. Yep, the container at the final GZ. We did sign the log as found, but fully intend to return to the area on a bright sun-shiny day to do this cache justice. Thanks RPieperCO for another creative geocache!

04/06/2018 By K Trackers
“Can’t wait for this log!! Ha!”
Definitely no pressure to craft some literary masterpiece for this log entry.

I wish I could tell the tale of a chance encounter two-headed blue woman, sparring with a talking cheetah eating cheetos and drinking mountain dew, or spin some fantastical yarn about seeing a 4’ rattle snake…but NOPE. Sorry, just another mundane outing of K Trackers somehow muddling through and logging a cache he probably doesn’t deserve to log.

I noted this cache when it first published. Clearly a wolf in sheep clothes. Another RPieperCO perplexing puzzle placing you in purgatory; or at best a multi cache with a puzzle excrescence. I’ll pause for a moment while we all look up vocabulary on google. (pause)

(resuming) Looking over the cache description, I had a good guess what this one probably entailed. Since it was a “field puzzle,” I may actually have a chance to solve it. I took some notes, captured the coordinates (why? I never do that…) and decided to save this one for when I was ready.

Then the Planetary Pursuit event started. I originally planned not to participate, but when my plans changed I committed to doing. The problem was not only had I squandered a considerable amount of time, but let my premium account expire to protest bad behavior by Groundspeak. Because I’m efficient, or just lazy, I wanted to pick up as many earthcaches, multi-caches, and puzzle caches that I could to maximize Planetary Points while minimizing effort. Since I normally struggle with puzzle caches, I turned to my notes for help. I do have a number of solved “things” in there…maybe now would be the time to finally find them. Then I came across my notes for this cache. As a premium cache I could not go back and read the cache description. But wait…what is this in the notes? Coordinates? Did I solve this one already? Surely the only reason I would copy coordinates is because this must be the final location…you can see where this is going. In my hubris at having “final coordinates” in hand, I contacted the CO and asked that if I found one of his premium caches, would he revert it to non-premium so I could log it? Yes he would, and the hunt was on.

Blissfully ignorant, I rolled up on my “final coordinates,” pencil in pocket, ready to make the find. Nope. More searching, although I had no idea what I was looking for…still nope. I widened the search…WTF is this? This surely isn’t a final container. Looking over “them thingies,” I sat down to figure it out. About 30 minutes later, despite some promising ideas, I still had nothing despite being highly motivated to log a find on this one. Since this cache is named Here Comes The Sun!, I thought this would be the perfect cache to put me over the top and break the 600 point barrier to get all of the souvenirs for the Planetary Pursuit event. Confusion soon turned to frustration, and in a moment of weakness, I broke a rule and tried to PAF. There was no answer, but that was probably for the best. Dejected, I headed back to my vehicle.

As I prepared to drive away, the phone rang. PAF call returned. I soon had some important information in hand…such as I was very dumb trying to do this cache in heavy overcast. Right ideas, wrong weather. With some additional prodding and thanks to “electric thingies,” the mystery of “them thingies" was broken and I was soon at GZ. Just discovering the box canyon enroute to the GZ made all of that effort totally worth it. The ironic thing is that I didn’t need 600 points to complete the event, only 500…so this cache didn’t put me over the top as intended. More muddling on my part, but at least I made the find.

I would be totally amiss if I didn’t thank the CO for being gracious enough to temporarily change the status on this cache so that I could log. This cache, like all of yours, was really fun. I’m not sure you get the credit you deserve for putting them all out, so at least accept my thanks for the fun adventure.

12/24/2017 By kb0rpw
Tried for a long time on a sunny day. Very hard to see

12/23/2017 By billkat
Couldn’t get them to work so after about 45minutes i paf’d and learned how to do it correctly. Very hard to see but found the final. Tftc!

12/03/2017 By OR85OR450
:-/ :-/ Welllll.... shoot. I spent a good hour at S1 trying everything I could think of, based on others' logs. Went back to the truck a couple hundred feet away & tried to apply everything I had there too. It was a great, sunny winter day but never showed me anything.
Another hour searching elsewhere turned up the pod, so I signed away & left a souvenir airline wings pin.