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Type: Traditional
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By: Wulff pack@
| Hide Date: 09/14/2008
| Status: Available
Country: United States
| State: Colorado Coordinates: N39° 39.584 W105° 21.760 | Last updated: 06/19/2022 | Fav points: 0
Short hike off trail up a small hill. Tread gently.The cache is located on a small hill that formed at a pegmatite outcrop. A pegmatite is a band, or outcrop, of coarse crystalline rock (usually quartz, mica and feldspar)intruded in finer-grained "host" rock. Coarse pegmatite crystals are more resistant than their host rock and often form hills and ridges as the host rock weathers away.
The name refers to a strange phenomenon of tree growing up and around rock, carrying it upward. This was once more obvious, but someone or something broke off the part of the rock that stuck out. If you look very carefully, you can still see the part that is stuck inside the tree. It is not much bigger than a quarter and is just an inch or so off the ground (north side) on the tree on the crest of the hill.
Park at either Elk Meadow parking lot (is about 3/4-mile from lower lot). Restrooms at both parking lots.
06/30/2019 By MtnPorgs Loved the geology lesson with this cache - very unique place. Thanks for getting us off the beaten path to a cool little corner of Elk Meadows.
06/23/2019 By GeoDog74 Found it on a beautiful afternoon, log is a little damp but still good SL tftc
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