GC3VXYM A Cache at 38 and 105
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: mtnbirders @ | Hide Date: 09/01/2012 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 00.000 W105° 00.000 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
                       

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STEEP - that is the main descriptive word for this cache.  I usually try to hide easier to get to caches so that a lot more cachers will find it, but I couldn't resist the coordinates for this one. It took me about 3 hours from car door to car door to place this cache, but I took an ATV for about 2 miles each way. A 4x4 should be able to get to the same spot that I did on the ATV.

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This cache is located at the confluence of the 38th parallel and the 105th meridian.  Or as close as I could determine where that location is located.  What with the super steep terrain, the tall surrounding trees, and the cliff about 50 feet away, my GPSr was reading an accuracy of about 30 feet.
Although not a requirement, I think it would be great to see a picture of your GPSr with the coordinates 38 00.000 105 00.000.
So as not to make this too difficult, I have included a description of the cache location below.  If you are more in the mood for an old fashioned hunt for the cache, you can stop reading at the word "DESCRIPTION" below.  When I reached the confluence, I placed the cache where my GPSr was reading 2 feet to the destination.  (Zero, was right in the middle of the slope, and the cache would have just rolled away).  In fact, if you can't find the cache, you may look downhill to see if it did roll away.  I spent about 30 minutes around the area, and in that time I never had zero in the same place.  In fact at one point zero was on top of the cliff.  Although when I went up there and took a fairly treeless and cliffless reading, it was pointing pretty much at the location I hid the cache when I first arrived.

If you would like my parking coordinates, just shoot me an e-mail.  I didn't publish them with the cache because I am in no way convinced that I parked in the best location.  All I can say is that I parked at the closest location and went straight down the hill to the cache.  If fact on my return trip I intersected the road in a different location.

DESCRIPTION:
(this is as much a spoiler of the actual location as I could possibly put into words)
As you approach the confluence, you should see a faily large rock outcrop (cliff).  If you are on top of the cliff, you will need to navigate your way to the bottom.  Standing below the cliff and facing uphill toward it, the cache is located about 30 feet right and slightly below the bottom of the cliff.  If you look in that direction, you should see a smaller outcrop of rock, approximately 10-20 feet high.  The cache is located on the upslope side of a tree right next to this outcrop of rocks.  (On the "cliff" side of the outcrop).  It is a 50mm ammo can, so hopefully you won't be able to miss it.

10/26/2013 By Adrenalin Junkie
Not a very easy hike in motorcycle boots.

11/03/2012 By SnailMan1
Hartsdale ask if I wanted to go on a short hike to find this cache and I said sure. He didn't tell me about the terrain and it difficult, but only for a short distance. That was one steep hill, but we managed to navigate ourselves slowly but surely to GZ. Once there Hartsdale read the description of where the cache was located and we quickly found the obvious spot. I had my head down looking at the likely spots when he called out "found it". He asked if I could see it down the hill and my initial look of 30-40 ft came up empty. Once he pointed it out I needed a pair of binoculars to see that. Luckily, there was a fallen over tree that the cache got hung up on otherwise it would have been at the bottom of the hill. We retrieve the cache and we hopefully place it so I will not take another trip down the hill. Thanks for the adventure, the fun and the FTF.

11/03/2012 By hartsdale
Someone say free coffee for FTF!

Out trying out the new vehicle off roading a little bit, with snailman1, and it works just fine as the new "cachemobile"!!

Got to GZ and no cache to be found, I remembered in the description that it could slide down the hill and guess what?

It did!

We found it at least 100 ft. down the hill and upside down.

On our next outing we plan on stopping for some free coffee!! Thanks!

We put it back up at GZ + or - a few feet.


This CO-FTF makes three or more FTFs a month for sixty months straight so far.

Thanks for a fun cache to hunt down!

HD

09/30/2012 By Mama-n-Shea
Tried to get to this one once already, think I have found another route of attack and will try again!

09/01/2012 By mtnbirders
And as an added incentive to find the cache before the snow flies, I left a $15 Starbucks card there for the FTF.