GC8E2Q3 Letterbox Hybrid Spruce Mountain Letterbox
Type: Letterbox | Size: Small Small | Difficulty: 2.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 2.5 out of 5
By: brennan7 @ | Hide Date: 09/25/2019 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 10.050 W104° 52.535 | Last updated: 06/19/2022 | Fav points: 0
Dogs  Not Available during winter  Dangerous Animals  No Drinking water nearby  No Public restrooms nearby  Bicycles  Horses  Thorns  Medium hike (1km-10km) 

It's been a while since I placed a cache! I've had this idea for this location for a while and finally made it happen today. 

 

Your job is to start hiking up the Spruce Mountain trail, going to the top mountain loop. Somewhere along the way, you will pass "Paddock's Point." You will need to record the coordinates of Paddock's Point and gather information on the plaque to get to the final geocache. 

 

At Paddock's Point, you will travel AAAA feet at a bearing of BBB.CC degrees. 

AAAA = (Year Paddock died) - (323)

BBB = (Day of the month Paddock was born) * (Number of the month Paddock died) + (Age of Paddock at death) - (3)

CC = (Day of the month Paddock was born) + (47)

 

Good luck! 

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P08E2Q3 - Parking
N 39° 10.066 W 104° 52.455

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CodeNameTypeCommentsDateCoordinatesDistance
P08E2Q3Parking Parking Area  09/25/2019 N 39° 10.066 W 104° 52.455 0.12 kms E 

 Hints

East side of hill, about 30 feet downhill of the "summit," tucked under a rock

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5 Logs: Found it 5  

Found it 03/08/2020 By claudey
Cool hybrid! The fam, geodog & I came here for a nice hike, and I made them let me find this one. Lol The final took several minutes to find, but I got it. I was hoping there was a stamp inside, but that's ok. I stamped my claudey stamp. TFTC!

Found it 01/25/2020 By MountainBear
Found with Java Chip on a beautiful day. TFTC!

Found it 12/14/2019 By estes01
It's been a long time since I've done a Brennan7 cache. Always enjoyed them. Spruce Mountain is one of my favorite areas to hike, but it was a little more challenging today due to the rock hard ice. Perfect terrain for spikes. After digging around in the snow for a while, ernie66 found it. Thanks for the hide!

Found it 12/14/2019 By ernie66
Out for a hike today with estes01 on a warmish day before the next snow. We stopped at the plaque and did the projection. It took a minute at GZ to find the container. The trail was hard ice most of the way -- glad we brought microspikes!

Found it 10/04/2019 By gampa&gamma
Fun letterbox by one of our favorite CO’s! Found waypoint one but collected some erroneous data which kept us from finding the container. Reached out to the CO and a previous finder and realized our error. Went back to waypoint one and collected more accurate data. With better coords in hand, we walked right up to within 5’ of the hide. Signed log and replaced container as found. Thanks for another fun cache.