GCAXBNCMany Thunders #3 - Rock Scramble
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By: LeeHunts & geomojo78@
| Hide Date: 08/31/2024
| Status: Available
Country: United States
| State: Colorado Coordinates: N40° 49.951 W105° 35.579 | Last updated: 09/29/2024 | Fav points: 0
This is a large ammo can located a little ways off of the road and does involve a bit of a rock scramble to get up to the cache. Once you get close it should be pretty obvious where this cache is located. If you are coming from County Rd 73C, this is the last cache along the road that I placed, but there is still one more cache that was placed in 2007 a little bit farther down the road that I have verified is still there as of June 2024. If you keep going, you will also get an amazing view of Many Thunders Mountain as well.
About the series...
The "Many Thunders" cache series is a series of caches all placed along Many Thunders Rd that can be found from either entrance to the road, though the numbering of the series goes from the County Rd 73C entrance. (Many Thunders Rd is also known as Forest Rd 311/311A or North Lone Pine Creek Rd and is often confused with the nearby Chicken Park series of roads, but Many Thunders is the coolest and most common name.) Many Thunders Rd is not a regular road, it's an offroad trail, so I would not recommend attempting this if you aren't in a car with high suspension and four-wheel drive. Highway vehicles are allowed (which in this case would most likely be a Jeep, pickup truck, or something along those lines) but any form of OHV (usually an ATV, dirt bike, or snowmobile) is not. Many Thunders Rd is only open to vehicles between June 15th and November 15th so do not attempt this series during the winter unless you happen to be somebody that loves hiking in the winter or you are a cross-country skier. As you go down the road, you will come across quite a few gates. These gates do not indicate private property, they just prevent livestock from moving too far. Note that it is also possible to hike to these caches, though if you decide to hike the entire trail you would be looking at a seven-mile hike. I hope you have fun on this off-road adventure!
Additional Waypoints
01AXBNC - Entrance to Many Thunders Rd along County Rd 67J N 40° 49.669 W 105° 33.984
R0AXBNC - Entrance to Many Thunders Rd along County Rd 73C N 40° 50.754 W 105° 36.360
09/22/2024 By DaValentine Oh, this was a good one. It's also nice to see an ammo can out here. I feel like Colorado doesn't have as many as other states. I also did what the previous cacher did and approached from the east initially. I should have checked the logs first. So, this took me longer than it should have. Thanks for the cache! Off to find your next one!
DaValentine Fort Collins, CO
09/02/2024 By Denali41 This was a fun group of three new caches along a high clearance road I have not traveled for at least a decade. I came in from the west end, doing the three caches in their numerical order. But I had “missed” the entrance gate as I drove north toward Creedmore Lakes and went right past it. I pulled to the side of the road and consulted a map, and shortly after, a Larimer County Sheriff’s office vehicle pulled up to ask if I needed assistance. He then told me that the gate had been locked and I could not access this road from its west end. That surprised me, since gate closure here does not occur until November 15th, and I showed the deputy the USFS Road Vehicle Use Map indicating such. I turned around, went back and found the correct gate. Yes, it looked to be padlocked, but the lock was simply looped and then locked through a chain link having nothing to do with the gate security, as it should be for this time of year. It took little time to open, pass through, and close the gate. Each of the three caches were easily driven near to, with only short walks to the cache sites–the third one took more effort to reach from the road, as the cache write-up suggests it does. My puppy Chimborazo was with me and loved these three times out of the vehicle--especially while I was in search mode for this third and last of the caches.
This cache took me much longer to locate than it should have! That's because I approached it from the direction to the right of the overall rock formation, rather than approaching it from the left side as viewed up from the road, I searched all over for the crevice after approaching from the eastern end, and explored many cracks that may or may not have qualified as crevices. In fact, I scrambled to within 5 feet of the hide location, which was out of sight due to a slight rocky "ridge" that separated it from my position. Finally turned back, descended, and went around to the the other side where I quickly spied the hiding crevice. Reascended and quickly had the cache container in hand! Yes, it’s a large container, all right, and LeeHunts invested a lot in purchasing these three huge ammo boxes! I’ve found many others of this size in the past, and all have been designated as “Large” instead of Regular for cache size–something to be considered here.
From this third find I continued east along the road until just below Many Thunders Mountain where the road turns south to connect with the main road from Red Feather Lakes to Prairie Divide. It was fun gazing up at Many Thunders, being reminded of a wonderful day almost two decades ago when I climbed the mountain coming in with a long hike from the north. At that time, my late puppy Teewinot had an enjoyable outing with me.
I hope the CO considers extending this series by adding additional caches toward the east end. What a great contribution he has made to our geocaching community by the placement and ownership of these three new caches (as well as all his other geocaches). I was pleased to have the {FTF} on each of these three!
Many Thunders #3 - Rock Scramble
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