GC9C1E Traditional Cache Trail 664A Cache
Type: Traditional | Size: Small Small | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 4 out of 5
By: Gil&Ani @ | Hide Date: 10/14/2002 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 52.055 W105° 05.639 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 3
Access or parking fee  Takes more than an hour  Scenic view  Parking available  Public restrooms nearby  Picnic tables nearby  Camping available  Medium hike (1km-10km) 
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Easy to find, tough hike to get there!
This trail just opened up in October 2002 and goes from the Crags Trailhead (N38 52.278 W105 07.203, 10,110 feet elevation) up to the summit of Pikes Peak. The whole trail is about 8.5 miles and climbs 4,000 feet but you have to hike about 2 miles and climb just under 1,300 feet to reach the cache! The cache is a 10oz glass jelly jar. It is in a hollow stump but there are so many hollow stumps, better use your GPS to find which one. Take a camera and some fruit to feed the camp robbers!
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It's just uphill from a switchback at 11,380 feet elevation.

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12 Logs: Found it 9  Didn't find it 2  Needs Maintenance 1  

Needs Maintenance 07/05/2019 By Kerewin0430
This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Didn't find it 07/05/2019 By Kerewin0430
Got an early start from the Crags trailhead this morning and had a very nice hike up to Devil's Playground. Weather was perfect, so I took several detours once up top (and on the way down) to pick up some nearby caches.

Looked on the way up and on the way down for this one. The previous finder said they found it downhill (hint indicates uphill) - so I looked both directions. You're right - there are a lot of stumps! I tried to look in them all. Hope I didn't miss the magic one. Given that it might have traveled, and that there was nothing at GZ, perhaps this one merits a maintenance check?

Found it 09/14/2017 By anotherguest
actually downhill from the switchback as we found it on the way down the hill vice the way up the hill. tftf with andGuest

Found it 09/14/2017 By andGuest
Grabbed this one on the way down off the mountain. Although we were down off the mountain quite a bit, I knew we still had some work ahead of us. It was definitely a full day with getting on the trail just after sun up and got back to the car as it was getting dark. TFTF

Didn't find it 09/02/2017 By Pohka
No joy today. Went to what looked like the place of geocachness and nothing there. Maybe another time.

Found it 03/18/2017 By estes01
What were we thinking!!! I mean, what birdbrain does this cache in March? We were looking for a good hike and a couple of weeks ago had some luck accessing a cache at high altitude. After all the hot weather we've had, surely there couldn't be much snow up there. Well we were wrong. And on top of that, the Crags Trail was closed, again, on January 17th. That meant coming in from Devil's Playground - a nice easy walk for a while, but then the trail started disappearing under snow drifts and the steeper it got the deeper the snow. But we are stubborn and decided we could at least make it to your cache. I'll come back to do the rest of the caches below yours when all the snow is gone and the trail is open from the bottom. The cache is in great shape. Thank you!

Found it 09/16/2016 By njnjplus1
Great off trail hide .. September is so pretty up here !! Thanks for keeping this up here

Found it 10/17/2015 By pistolgriptip
Found it

Found it 10/14/2015 By Back Country Horsemen
After figuring out my NatGeo TI map had this trail numbered wrong (it is 753 on the map & 664A shows as an offshoot from 664), I made it to this cache. I decided it got too narrow with branches too low to continue riding my horse on up. That & I wanted to make sure I had enough time to also ride to the Crags. A fav point for a cache I could ride to.

Found it 10/10/2015 By oldkingog
Grabbed this one today after summiting Pikes from Crags Trailhead. Thanks for placing it!

Found it 11/01/2014 By co_gps_guy
Enjoyed some geocaching on 664A on a cold and windy day. Cache is in great shape. SLTN. TFTC!

Found it 07/23/2014 By MountainBear
Found with JavaChip and then stung by a wasp. Bummer. I survived though. TFTC!