GC6Y23B Revelation Space
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: proteus75 @ | Hide Date: 12/11/2016 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 31.898 W105° 11.005 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
           

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#1 in a series of full-size harder to reach Deer Creek caches named after some fantastic British sci-fi novels.

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Revelation Space is Alistair Reynold's first major sci-fi novel. Based 500 years from now in a time when it takes about 60 years to travel between solar systems but faster than light travel is still not possible. A fantastic tale of a civilization under threat from an enemy that has been sleeping and waiting for millions of years.

I don't think there is an easy way to get to this cache, or not one that I took anyway. Hence the 4 difficulty rating. This is a full size plastic ammo can hidden in a large rock. I got to this location by walking up from the small parking area to the clearing about 10 minutes up the trail. The clearing is under the trees and has a small campfire in the middle. From there I headed off the trail straight up the very steep hill. There may be an easier way, but this route is somewhat of a scramble. it took us about 40 minutes or so to get to GZ from the car.

GPS bounced around quite a bit but I tried to average out a couple of readings.

Additional Waypoints

P06Y23B - Parking at the back way
N 39° 32.018 W 105° 11.128
The very small parking area that gives you access to the lesser used back way trail into the park
T06Y23B - Trailhead
N 39° 32.021 W 105° 11.122
lesser used back way trail into Deer Creek

03/25/2018 By JMKR
Enjoyed the hike up and the easier hike back down more. Found a few likely spots in and around the rock, but none with a container of any size.

02/03/2018 By Teriyaki Donuts
This was a beast! I approached it from another cache in the river valley that stayed at the same iso elevation line. A long slog through heavy brush on a steep slope. I finally made it to the area only to find that I was too high. By that time I was very exhausted. I searched and searched and reread the clues with no luck. On the way down I fell 3 times. It was a disaster! I'll try again in warmer weather, but that was very difficult and too much work for not finding anything. Oh well.

05/20/2017 By nerak2001
Fun STF with animjason on a last minute trip to get caches of interest here and there.

Great hike up here. It was a good thing that we took the longer way around -- the melting snow on the ground made traction difficult.

Speaking of the cache title, had a revelation when we finally reached this one -- the terrain rating could be higher. :-)

Picked up a geocoin that I will move along.

Took the direct way back down to the road and improved my sliding skills! We were totally soaked by the time we reached the road but had a lot of fun in the process. The views were outstanding. Thanks for the more difficult, but completely worth it, hide!

05/20/2017 By animjason
Fourth cache of the day with nerak. Last minute decision to go snow caching together for some specific targets. Didn't get all we had planned, but had a great day.

Write up says 4 difficulty, but it shows 3.5, but in this snow covered mountain, with river trails from snow melt, made it a 4 or 4.5. Super difficult and fun. The melting tree snow rained on us and occasionally threw softball sized slush balls on us. We got SOAKED. Worth it!

Gets a FAVE. Discovered trackables and picked up one. We took a longer and probably more difficult route since snow covered all trails and open areas. Loved it.

Thanks proteus75! Logged Revelation Space from a seventh galaxy using c:geo!

~ Cache find #8726 ~

12/27/2016 By cajrrman
I thought it was about time someone found this cache so off I went after hiding a new cache of my own (not anywhere near here). I did not use the trail suggested but found an easier way up. I thought I would follow the steeper trail back down but never actually found the trail and ended up in some dicey territory but I made it down okay. I ended up coming down about 100 feet from the trailhead.

This was a great adventure finding this cache and it definitely gets a favorite point. I made the find at 12:37 pm. The coordinates are perfect for this nicely hidden cache. I took one of the geocoins.

Thanks for the great cache!