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Flat Road Up a Steep HillType: Traditional | Size: Small 
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| Terrain:  By: morgentd @ | Hide Date: 09/01/2008 | Status: Available Country: United States | State: Colorado Coordinates: N39° 38.743 W105° 10.919 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0 This cache got its name because I thought the prominent terrain feature was a road, halfway up a steep hill. If you look at the hogback just west of Bear Creek Lake Park (e.g., from Morrison Road), you can easily see the horizontal terrain feature about halfway up the hill. Following his FTF on this cache, one of the mm’s in mm&mm did a little historical research on this terrain feature. I am updating the cache description to include this history as it is both explanatory and interesting. The history is provided by Sally White, Jefferson County Historical Commissioner and former Morrison Museum Currator (Sally_white@msn.com). HistoryThe "level road" was a flume (ditch, canal) and the “steep hill” is Mt. Glennon. The canal was called Fisher's (or possibly Fischer’s) Flume. It came out of Bear Creek west of Morrison, crossed the red rock south of the creek via a wooden flume structure, curled through lower Mt Falcon Park and around the small hill on its east edge, crossed CO-8 somewhere there, went north along the west side of Mt Glennon, then south on the east face all the way to Turkey Creek. The cache is in the flume along this east face of Mt. Glennon. Fisher’s Flume probably dates to the 1880s, if not a bit earlier. My understanding is that there was a siphon at Turkey Creek, although there is no longer any physical evidence for this. Evidently Fisher’s Flume never worked, and was known locally as Fisher's Folly. Fisher’s Flume is said to be visible in many old photographs of
Morrison and many old postcards of Red Rocks, so must have been put
in early. You can see Fisher’s Flume in the accompanying 1955
aerial photo. Mt Glennon is on the right, Bear Creek at the top,
and Morrison just off the picture to the north. You can trace
Fisher’s Flume through most of the image.
Cache DescriptionParking is available at N39 39.089 W105 11.050. Start by taking the stairs. Although this is less than 0.6 miles from the parking area, you may need as much as an hour – the terrain can be very difficult at places depending on how you get there. There is no need to cross the fence at the end of your journey.
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