Something For Everyone: Meadow's Edge

07/01/2015 By Pixel Magic
This area is still wet from all of the rain we have had. Some mosquitos but not so many to discourage us from continuing our search for these great caches. This cache is quite woodsy being in adjacent to an emerging aspen grove. I'd like to come back here in the fall and see what colors emerge from the thickets of aspen here, This was an easy grab because of the good coords and the great hint.

06/14/2015 By FoCoGeoClan
After successfully finding the Top Rock cache we made or descent and went back onto the trail in the large meadow below. We hit a smaller stream and left the trail. At this point we noticed a coyote 200 feet in front of us intently staring into some brush. The wind must of been in our favor b/c it did not notice us. We just stood and watched it for a few minutes at which point it pounced into some tall grass and emerged chewing on some type of rodent. I always appreciate watching wildlife in action, especially when they are unaware of human presence. If we had not left the trail to go to this cache we would not have witnessed this. The cache itself was in fine shape and we accomplished all five caches we wanted. We shall return to this area to finish the Mad for Science series. I highly encourage everyone to get to the Elkhorn/Lady Moon area and grab some of these caches. It's a beautiful area and you will encounter few to no other humans.

Thanks so much for providing a great day Triggur!

05/19/2014 By Denali41
Denali50 and I arose this morning expecting our normal Monday morning activities–feed the pets and ourselves and then head in to Fort Collins for 2 hours of gym classes followed by delivering Meals on Wheels on our Monday route. We got all prepared, with gym bags and other things placed in the car. I had a few minutes to check e-mails before we needed to leave at 7:15 AM, and did so. Checking e-mails changed the day–not the six new caches that were published just north of Elkhorn Creek, but ONE specific one: the one having a 4.5 Difficulty/4.5 Terrain rating (Top Rock). For several years I’ve been attempting to complete the Fizzy Grid with only FTFs in each of the 81 grid cells. I’m down to six cells, and expect these six to require several more years to attain because the combinations are unusual, plus the caches need to be within reasonable distance from home base in order to chase the “first” on the find. When I saw the 4.5/4.5 combination, I immediately planned a different day than the one we had just about embarked on! It was suddenly a very “rare” day, indeed! As always, Denali50 was understanding as I transferred Egoscue mats and Meals on Wheels coolers from one vehicle to another for her, and got my day pack ready and my puppy Orizaba set up for several hours in the backcountry.

I drove to the Elkhorn Creek Trailhead and headed north with my puppy Orizaba until we were confronted with a raging creek. Following it downstream for about 1/3 mile brought us to a reasonably safe crossing which didn’t take us far from a straight-line track to the first of the six new Triggur caches. From that point on everything fell nicely into place, and we picked off the {FTF}s on each of these six beauties; I’m now down to “only” five cells needed for my FTF Fizzy Matrix. The day ranks “way up there”!

Thanks, Triggur, for a very interesting, full experience. You’ve placed some challenging caches in this series. I was delighted with each placement, and the views from certain cache locations are stunning. And my puppy Orizaba was excited over the entire loop!

05/18/2014 By Alpine Reviewer
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