GCQRTA Traditional Cache Muriel-2
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 3 out of 5
By: memnosine @ | Hide Date: 10/01/2005 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 56.930 W105° 30.937 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Not Wheelchair accessible  Bicycles  No Motorcycles  No Quads  No Off-road vehicles  Horses 
100 yards gently uphill from good parking, altitude around 8800 feet.
Located SW of Nederland, take Forest Service (FS) road 132W to a parking place near the cache. Accessible by small children but no trail, 100 yards uphill. Elevation starts about 8500 feet, cache is at 8801 in an aspen grove. Wear orange during hunting season. Container is a red cigar tube with black lid, 3/4 inch diameter. No need -and may not be not possible- to pull the container from its hidy hole.. Remove the contents and pencil with a pointy stick. Then look north west and admire the runs at the Eldora ski area.
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13 Logs: Found it 12  Write note 1  

Found it 09/06/2018 By Goldilocks+2
Perhaps my favorite cache on our entire 11 day/3,800 mile trip. The hike through the yellowing rustling aspen leaves was unforgettable. I picked up three leaves along the trek and framed one of them for Little Leprechaun and gave it to her for Christmas. She deserved it, and so much more, as she was the one that inspired this entire journey west, drove us safely through the mountains, and even made the ultimate find of Muriel's container! (I still have the other two leaves tucked safely away in my china closet) Many many thanks to memnosine for an epic hike with my epic companions. I hope to return someday!

Found it 09/06/2018 By Little Leprechaun
I found this cache as part of "Team Irish Gold." Thanks for the cache!

Found it 09/06/2018 By The Leprechauns
I found your cache as part of Team Irish Gold's Epic Roadtrip (or "TIGER"), a 3800 mile journey from my home in Pittsburgh to visit my daughter at her new home in Boulder. The drive was fun because of the great company of Goldilocks, the other half of Team Irish Gold. Along the way we found geocaches in 73 counties within eight states - with NO DNF's!

Today was our third full day in Colorado. My daughter (Little Leprechaun) joined us for fun adventures and drove us around the Peak to Peak highway, ending up in Estes Park. We had a great day! Goldilocks requested "a nice hike in the mountains to a cache with some terrain stars," and I chose this one. We were VERY happy with our choice! We had no idea that we'd be wandering through aspen groves -- more than I've ever seen -- or that we'd be treated to sweeping vistas of the mountains and valley. Little Leprechaun turned up the well-hidden cache once we reached ground zero. But, the hike was worth it regardless of the cache find. There is a whole trail network here for mountain bikers and it seemed accessible to beginners. Made me wish I had my bike!

Your cache earns not only a favorite point but also a spot on my "Top 5% Greatest Cache Hunts" bookmark list. Thanks, memnosine, for hiding and maintaining this cache!

Found it 08/19/2018 By boehnert
Great geocache. Found this cache during our bike ride.

Found it 08/04/2016 By PictureLiberty
Container had been muggled but we found the hiding spot and replaced the container. Signed (new) log. Beautiful spot - well worth the hike!

Found it 08/04/2016 By wm0f
2nd cache of the day, always fun to be out.

Found it 08/04/2016 By msstrong
Found it but the container was missing where the bear must've hit it with his knee walking by, LOL so we put another similar sized container in there that you'll only be able to remove the lid, Great location cords were perfect, thanks for the placement

Found it 09/12/2015 By 70k_miles
Fun hike!

Write note 08/05/2015 By memnosine
Ran the line of my caches in the area; this one is still good. The forest that was around it is gone, but the stump it inhabits was not worth cutting. Go for it.

Found it 07/19/2015 By travelbug83
Took a friend out on his first geocaching adventure :)

Found it 07/11/2015 By Clairifus
TFTC

Found it 07/11/2015 By Curt and Karen
Great cache

Found it 05/27/2015 By shawncothren1981@Yah
Yay love this game night walkers needs to turn into day walkers now great hide thank you fellow geo's