GC1FW0RMonument Trail Cache
Type: Traditional
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By: M & Z R@
| Hide Date: 08/31/2008
| Status: Available
Country: United States
| State: Colorado Coordinates: N39° 06.938 W107° 46.860 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Best accessed during mid-late Spring to early Fall. Altitude is approx. 9750 feet. Might be hard to access or find due to snow or high water due to snowmelt. HIGHLY SUGGEST 4X4 or HIGH clearance vehicle, ATV or horseback. LONG hike if not driving to parking area coordinates.Parking coordinates 1/2 mile from cache site are; N 39 06.904 W 107 47.320. To get to the Cache site you will need to hike, ATV or ride horseback about .5 miles on narrow trail. Coordinates within 20 feet of accurate. GPS may bounce a bit. Contents are in weather proof airtight container. Original contents are; Star Wars wrist light, Astros Antenna Ball, Spark Plug Guage, Golf Tees and Ball Marker, Mator Tow Truck, North Star EMS retractable Key Chain, Lavender Potpurri and C2C Colorado TB, log book and pencil. Park Pass may be required for entry. Wildlife in area include Elk, Deer, Moose, Bear and other little critters. Lots of photo ops available. Kid friendly, dogs allowed with leash, not wheelchair accessible.
07/22/2018 By BG2015 Beautiful views on the way in but road was terribly bumpy. Little did I know that the way out would be much worse. Found the cache easily enough and I guess with only 22 visits, I shouldn't be surprised that some of the original items still remain. Continued on down to Monument Reservoir to do some fishing then took the loooooong way out on an even worse road with very dim headlights. Made for a great adventure. Thanks.
07/22/2016 By no1cabo found with wife. out on atvs from vega looking for Moose. tftc took slinky left dollar. sl
11/09/2014 By kekj (Log is wk late) Made a trip out this direction several months ago (Sept 1) on a 4wheeler planning to get this cache along with 4-5 others immediately south of here. Ended up spending so much time looking for several (especially “Columbine is close enough” - see that DNF log) that we ran out of time and low on fuel so had to skip this one at the time and ended up ridding back to the Surface Creek Corral on an unknown trail (4x4 rd) totally in the dark! It was a wild ride!
We have been in the process of logging every single cache in Grand Mesa National Forest (excepting 1 in the far NE - some 80+ caches) and as of yesterday had done so except for this one and 3 others that we DNFed on that ill fated trip of 9-1. We have been looking for a date when we would have a FULL day ahead of us for the second time out and with weather closing in decided today was a "do or die trying" time to do it. WE ALMOST DIED TRYING!
Other than these 4, having yesterday logged the last cache within the National Forest boundary (Green Mountain - Trail 719), took off early from home GZ, and headed this direction after having found the 1st stage of "Close isn't Goodenough" and "In the Tundra", both DNFed on previous trip. Found this one fairly easy, even with 4-6" of snow around, and now pushed for time to get second stage of Goodenough and hoping to make a second run at "Columbine is Close Enough" was pushing the Yamaha Grizzly pretty hard trying to make it from here to the South end Trail head in 45 minutes. Pushed it TOO hard and popped a tire off the rim with 5.2 miles to go, now 2:15 p.m., spent some time trying to remount tire but could not get it to seal to rim and hold air.
We were prepared to walk out the 5 miles but fortunately (having previously met them on the trail) we knew some other 4 wheelers were behind us and hoped they would be along shortly. Ken & Cassandra (of Cedaredge Tire) came along about 3 and with some additional tools they had we spent more time trying to mount tire with no luck. They then hauled us out (THANKS GUYS!) and we made it back to home GZ shortly after dark.
BUT . . . . . Now we have a (borrowed from Kirk Huff - Excavating) 4 wheeler WAY out in the middle of nowhere, snow storms brewing, and caches yet unfound! Kirk and I arranged our schedules to come out on Tuesday to recover the rig AND the caches, planning to leave around 1 p.m. At the last minute he got a call that one of his trucks was broke down along the road and I got a 30 minute notice of a special inspection coming up on my job site here in Delta - which we had been waiting for for over a week - a must do inspection! We finially got out of town at 3 pm. TH at 4:25, abandoned rig at 5.03, back on the trail at 5:15 and made it back to the Goodenough Trail at 5:52, in the dark, having picked up two caches for Kirk along the way back!
NOW, a decision! Well after dark, half mile to vehicle, or 2 miles to Goodenough 2nd stage cache which had not been found in OVER THREE YEARS! and 6"+ snow on the ground! As a geocacher, what decision would you have made? OF COURSE! GO FOR IT! We did, (20 minutes to go 2 miles bucking snow) we found it (30 minutes - very tough find - see log) and made it home about 8:30!
This cache was a very sweet find! Coords were DEAD ON making it easy to find in the snow, cache and log are in good condition with some nice SWAG, but was not "dressed" very well, half naked, so "dressed" her back up nice and cozy for the winter. GETS OUR FAV TFTC SL visited bugs.
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