GC3W5YY Traditional Cache Crazy Catfish v2
Type: Traditional | Size: Small Small | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1 out of 5
By: PaulKS @ | Hide Date: 09/04/2012 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 45.341 W105° 08.227 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Dogs  Takes less than an hour  Available at all times  Available during winter  Wheelchair accessible  No Parking available  Bicycles  Stroller accessible 
You're looking for a 4" pill bottle.

Enjoy the view of Maple Grove Reservoir to the south, and Chester Portsmouth Park to the northwest. I ride my bicycle past here quite often, and have seen dozens of enormous catfish at the head of the spillway, which is across the road. (If you choose to look for catfish, be very careful crossing the road at this blind corner. It would be safer to walk westward and cross where cars have more line of sight. Polarized lenses will help you spot the fish.)

Local Trivia: Repairs to this dam were completed in December, 2004. Two new steel crest gates (located in the spillway under the road) replaced two vandalized inflatable dams (fabridams) that were installed in 1977. The fabridams were inflated by a combination of air and water and were difficult to operate and maintain. They showed their vulnerability in March of 1979 when vandals using knives sliced open the 30-foot long dam allowing a relatively small but certainly unexpected flood to occur. The small flood damaged some residential basements and commercial buildings.

The replacement spillway system uses hydraulic cylinders to raise and lower the two independent crest gates. The new steel crest gates are more resistant to vandalism and are far simpler to operate and maintain than the fabridams.

There is no parking immediately adjacent to the cache. There is ample parking at the end of the causeway to the west, or on side-streets adjoining 26th ave to the east.
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7 Logs: Found it 4  Didn't find it 3  

Didn't find it 11/07/2018 By Too Bears
Saw the cute pipe cleaner creatures but no luck today. A small hint would of helped.

Didn't find it 11/07/2018 By TwoPonds
No luck finding this one.

Found it 07/21/2018 By komanic
My boys found it thanks guys

Didn't find it 06/12/2018 By miaoliver
Tftc

Found it 04/28/2018 By swingert
Found this cache with ladyperrin. SL AND TFTC

Found it 04/28/2018 By ladyperrin
Have a busy day today so this was a nice quick find - not quite a true P&G. Keeping my streak going (Day 128). TFTC.

Found it 03/09/2018 By mm&mm
Interesting spot. Nice part of town. TFTC BigSmile