Hoofer Haven

07/26/2018 By Libertarian Lad
Checked on my cache today. Soaking wet! The container is PVC pipe, sealed at one end, and with a screw-off access on the other end. Well, I've now learned that these homemade caches are not quite waterproof. The screw cap end needs to be pointed DOWN when placed in the rocks. I took the cap off, and pointed the pipe down, hoping it might dry out. Next person to find can let me know if this works. I have made several of these PVC caches and am in the process of replacing them, now that I've learned they don't work as expected.

08/20/2016 By Denali41
I attended the University of Wisconsin for two degrees between 1960 and 1967. Throughout this span of years, the Wisconsin Hoofers was my passion that gave me some "relief" from my academic activities and from my UW wrestling "career". It introduced me to some marvelous people, some of whom I remain, more than 50 years later, a correspondent with! The Hoofers led to a super relationship with "Alan", who for 10 years (before I moved to Fort Collins) was my special climbing partner. We trained with other Hoofers on the remarkable quartzite rock climbing routes at Devils Lake north of Madison, and each summer Alan and I drove west to climb in Grand Teton National Park (where we climbed all of the significant peaks). Back then, technical climbs were protected using pitons, and rappels were made by passing the rope through the crotch and over a shoulder--so remarkably different from today's incredible devices for leader protection and rapping (techniques that today I absolutely love!). We also detoured a couple of times to make the 60-mile (RT) backpack in to climb Gannet Peak, Wyoming's highest. During those summers we also climbed many of the glacier-covered volcanoes in Oregon and Washington. SWEET memories--all from the Hoofers' introduction!

Alan was also a member of my team of four that in 1964 (wow, 52 years ago!) canoed the entire length of the Churchill River from the Alberta-Saskatchewan border to Hudsons Bay (it was 1,200 miles of river miles, had never been canoed over its entire length before, and took us almost 2 months). Two of us almost lost our lives on that trip in Mountain Rapids, and we had our first encounter with a polar bear (an alarmingly close and anxious one) about 100 miles inland from Churchill on Hudsons Bay. Again, this happened from an introduction through Wisconsin Hoofers.

So today, with many, many recollections of events with the Wisconsin Hoofers that encouraged a life-time of significant outdoor adventures, I had the pleasure of hiking up the Rainbow Pit and Crosier Mountain Trails to find this wonderful cache. My puppy Orizaba was with me. She delighted in the "moment", as I was delighting in memories.

Thanks, Libertarian Lad, for inspiring some remarkable "recalls"!

07/28/2016 By mesa finds
Enjoyed this cache, definitely a weather proof container!

03/12/2016 By tinytuttle
Out making a trip on Crosier Mountain today with Icezebra11, the day started out at 9:30 that was cool and breezy, the climb to the top still had me working up a good sweat once in awhile, made finds out of 5 of the 6 caches we went after today. The views were amazing today the entire way up and down the mountain it was the first time for me on this side of Crosier which made it all that more enjoyable thanks Libertarian Lad for the placement of this cache and bringing me to this special place! Thanks Brad for accompanying along the trail!

03/12/2016 By icezebra11
Tinytuttle and I had a wonderful day hiking and caching up to the top of Crosier. This was our fourth stop along the way and it was a quick find as the coordinates were spot on. Really nice container too! Thanks Libertarian Lad for this nice diversion off the Crosier trail!!!