In June 2010 I published the first in a series of caches about these distinctive directional profiles: "Profiles of Greyrock Mountain--Northeastern View" (GC26C63). The series grew to include 10 caches plus a mystery cache that requires visits to eight of these original caches. The profile caches became popular with serious back-country geocachers and those original caches, plus others I've created in the Greyrock Mountain area since that first one, now comprise about 20 caches.

                                                                "GREYROCK MOUNTAIN FROM THE WEST"

https://www.jigidi.com/solve/q3a7ophr/greyrock-mountain/

This photo of the western aspect of Greyrock is taken from the vicinity of the Aiguille du Greyrock, the subject of the second jigsaw puzzle in this series. The mountain's western side is comprised of steep slabs and has a number of technical climbing routes, the easiest one being a tough rock/slab scramble called the "Weenie Route"that was the inspiration for my geocache "The Pig of Poudre Canyon" (GC1PGJ5). The steep rock on the peak's western aspect wraps around Greyrock on its south side, providing many interesting technical climbing challenges. The hiking route up the mountain follows along the southern cliffs to the eastern end where it mounts a narrow break in the steeper terrain before running back west to the highest point shown in the photo on this cache page.

So...click on the link, bring up the Jigidi puzzle, and put it together. After you've put the final puzzle piece in, a "completion" message will pop up and  provide the coordinates of this cache as well as a solid hint for finding it. The hike involves approximately 2 1/2 miles round trip, much of it on trail.  The final section is off-trail and requires some bushwhacking and a short steep scramble.  Enjoy the puzzle and the cache-finding experience.  As a personal reward, in the future make the significant hike to the summit of Greyrock Mountain and enjoy the caches you will encounter along the way!

01/01/2024 By Millerite
Another nice side hike ??? and puzzle. Got the mountain together and the cache found. Nice start to 2024. #8690

12/27/2023 By icezebra11
I was sitting in my recliner half watching some TV and half reading stuff on my tablet last night when I received the email notices that the two Greyrock Profile puzzle caches had been published. I long ago found all of the Profiles of Greyrock caches and the bonus cache so I was eager to see what these new caches were like. I checked out the cache pages and saw they were both jigidi puzzles so I got up and headed for the computer to start putting them together. I got a good start last night on this puzzle and finished it this morning. Then I worked through the puzzle for #2 and finished it in a few hours.

So with the coordinates for the two new caches, plus some others I had on my target list for this area, my puppy Angel and I set off for Poudre Canyon a little after noon. After arriving at the parking spot we headed up the trail to this cache first. Angel was having a great time checking out all the new "sniffs" along the way and we ended up over-shooting our intended point to diverge. A little backtracking and a little climbing and we arrived at GZ. Thanks to the hint, the find was a quick one. Upon opening the container I found a blank log so I happily signed it in the {FTF} position. Place everything back as found and headed off for #2,

Thanks Denali41 for creating these new Greyrock Profiles caches!!!

12/26/2023 By IgnotusPeverell
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