GC16VFA Cap. Gunnison's folley
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Biggertrux @ | Hide Date: 10/26/2007 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 26.673 W107° 38.428 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 3
                   

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Cerro Summit recreation area, May be tough in winter with lots of muggles, no need to cross fence.

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In 1853 Captain John D Gunnison was comissioned to find a transcontinental railroad rout. From what is now Gunnison, Co. to the Utah line he followed present day hwy 50. He was standing very near this spot when he is reported to have declaired "This rugged country is totally unsuitable for a railroad!" He and most of his party were killed later that year by a renegade band of Pavaht Utes in presant day Utah. The D&RG started building a narrow guage line 30 years later along the Gunnison river to Cimmeron and over Cerro Summit near where the cache is placed.

05/22/2019 By GeoGatesHunter
TFTC finding it was the easy part, cleaning off an inch of mud was not. Took me forever to get my shoes down to an acceptable amount of mud before climbing back into my truck. Wrong time of year for off trail searching but glad I have another ticked off my list.

05/04/2019 By 5Gregorys
TFTC

04/23/2019 By TnJtravlers
Beautiful spot. Thanks.

11/04/2018 By toshbar
Got it today on the way home (woodland park) from a weekend of caching in Montrose.

10/06/2018 By CacheKings007
TFTC

08/25/2018 By beyobe
Hard one for a handicap person but lucky me my wife loves climbing. tftc

08/25/2018 By me&marley
nice little climb up the hill for this ole lady, thanks I liked it

08/24/2018 By Spins7
Thanks! Found it!

07/24/2018 By msmosier
Loved the sign near the cache - Certain death if entered. Maybe the captain could have used a sign like that.

07/07/2018 By Jinxer05
On our way back to Denver, one more down for the hidden creatures challenge

07/01/2018 By ColoCan
Nice day to be out caching
GC16VFA

07/01/2018 By packerle
Found

06/16/2018 By Zaphod-Eh
driving east on 50 towards Garfield, grabbing a few caches on route. TFTC

05/17/2018 By ljdeblaeij
Good hiding spot. First geocache for me

05/09/2018 By WeRmoving
Grabbed on our way back to Gunnison. Congrats on your graduation Kaitlin! ?
Thanks for the cache and the Smile! :-)
Photo

11/26/2017 By afudc
I drove 530 miles today and managed to find 29 caches as I made my way from Dodge City to Montrose. I was trying to find caches in new counties so I did a little bit of wandering along the way. The weather was great and the traffic wasn't a problem, so all in all a great day.
My last stop of the day included a little walk up the hill. Good scenery from here.
Thanks for the fun!

09/29/2017 By stantastic
MerryMary and I are on a two-week vacation to Colorado to enjoy the fall colors -- taking photos, camping, hoteling, hiking, and 4-wheeling. Today we drove from Delta, Colorado, to Lake City. We stopped here to find this cache. Oh, for cryin' out...went up what I thought was the easy way, but then found I had to cross over the barbed wire to find the cache once I got up there. Ah, well -- found it . SLTNLN -- thanks for the fun, Biggertrux...

09/11/2017 By giemie
Easily found on a very hot day in september !
Thanks for the cach !
Giemie Belgium