GC1FWA2 Knights Peak
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: ColoradoPaul @ | Hide Date: 09/01/2008 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 43.534 W104° 56.771 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0

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This 10,490 foot peak with a fantastic 360-degree view rises to the south of Old Stage Road shortly before you get to Penrose-Rosemont Reservoir. It was officially named in 2003 by the Saturday Knights, a local hiking group. Previously it had been called Mt. San Luis but that name was apparently never satisfactory because of confusion with nearby San Luis Peak.

One way to get to the top is to park at 38 43.828 104 56.312 along Old Stage Road. Hike up the eroded area to a faint trail that turns uphill at 38 43.784 104 56.544. It forks after about 20 yards or so – take the right fork which heads straight uphill to a saddle at 38 43.585 104 56.589. From the saddle bushwhack (depending on how you go, minimal climbing over small boulders) about .15 miles to the top. The cache is at the listed coordinates. There is also a Colorado Mountain Club logbook in a plastic pipe at 38 43.521 104 56.767.

FTF five in ammo box.

This cache is also one of a series of five caches (GC1FWA2, GC1FWAH, GC1FWAZ, GC1FWBB, GC1FWC9) all in the same area that contains a necessary clue-sheet to solve Crypto Cache # 10 – ENIGMA (GC1G01E). The following information relates only to Crypto Cache # 10 –ENIGMA and is not necessary or related to finding this cache.

SCRAMBLERS (PART 1)

The scramblers were discs with twenty-six discrete entry points on one side and twenty-six discrete exit points on the opposite side. This corresponds to the twenty-six letters of the alphabet and for convenience, each position can be assigned a letter of the alphabet. Each scrambler had its own unique internal wiring pattern such that a letter electrically entered at one entry point and would emerge on the opposite side of the disc in another different distinct exit point. For example, entering A, it would emerge on the opposite side in, let’s say, the Q position.

Therefore, with just the use of one scrambler in a fixed position, each letter would be encrypted to one and only one other letter, thus producing a simple monoalphabetic substitution cipher that would be easy to crack.

But instead each time a plaintext letter is entered (and hence encrypted), the first scrambler rotates one position, such that when the next plaintext letter is entered, a completely different monoalphabetic substitution cipher is used.

To complicate things still further, multiple scramblers were used in sequence. Most military Enigma machines used three scramblers chosen out of a box of five. The three chosen scramblers could be placed in varying order in the machine and with variable starting positions. Which scramblers were to be used, their order in the Enigma machine and the starting letter for each scrambler was specified in a daily key code, e.g. use scramblers 1, 2, 3 in the following order 2,1,3 and with the following starting letters in those positions, G E O. (continued on San Luis Peak cache face sheet)

05/28/2019 By K Trackers
I came at this one directly from GC1FWAH Rock Hallway. Movement to the GZ was relatively uneventful, although there was plenty of bushwhacking to keep things interesting. I managed to make it to GZ just as a surprise hailstorm started. After taking cover, I had plenty of time to search but came up empty. Once the hail subsided, I did a wider search of the area and still could not make the find. I returned to the original spot. Despite that this spot conformed to my coordinates and cache description, I still could not make the find. At this point I had spent a considerable amount of time looking and was pretty demoralized. Snow started falling, so I decided to call it a day and would clear the remaining ridgeline another time. I had originally approached the cache from directly above, over the boulders. I spied a side trail and since it looked like a easier egress route, I decided to take that route out. About 35 feet from the cache I spotted the cache container, sitting in the open next to a rock. Clearly someone had moved that. I really hate when people do that, and in this case, it almost cost me the find. After signing the log and placing a TB, I moved the cache back to where it belongs.

I notice that this was is lonely as well, although not as nearly as lonely as GC1FWAH Rock Hallway. I keep track of my lonely cache finds for challenge caches. With this find, I now have (counting only 1 year or more lonely) a total of 135 years, 9 months lonely time on 65 caches from 11 North American States & Provinces.

Thanks to the CO for placing this nice cache for everyone to find, TFTC.

10/09/2017 By TheLostJensens2007
TFTC!

09/16/2014 By OR85OR450
Hi - I started the w-e six sweep by parking straight down below & trudging straight up at it. Looks like a great viewpoint is a bit too close to the road just below the summit to the west; guessing by the numerous beer and Gatorade empties there. My shot of the view will follow soon. TFTSseies!

09/06/2014 By MountainBear
Found with Javachip. TFTC!

06/01/2013 By vorticity
Had fun on this one today with Bean and Mitch. We parked on Gold Camp and bushwhacked up to the top. This stared our journey toward the east where we had left a car for the trip back. Whew!! Vort.

06/01/2013 By SnailMan1
Vorticity and I headed out to find the caches needed to solve Crypto Cache # 10 - ENIGMA (http://coord.info/GC1G01E) and this was our first stop. We parked on Old Stage Road to the North and headed up. It started off steep and just got steeper as we went higher. Once we finally arrived at the summit we found the cache very quick. TFTC.