GCMEEP Sesame Canyon
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Phoenix2001 @ | Hide Date: 12/25/2004 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 48.537 W104° 53.314 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 11
               

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The cache is located at about 7600 ft. in the Pike National Forest. It is more than a 3 mile hike (round trip) via the Penrose Trail, which is part of the Captain Jacks Trail system. Various starting points and hikes are possible.

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The trail in Sesame Canyon is officially closed to protect the Greenback Cutthroat Trout. Also, off trail travel in the Bear Creek drainage basin is no longer allowed. The cache is on a ridge that is the boundary of the basin. The cache is close to a social trail that is not always clear.

The Penrose Trailhead and parking lot for the Penrose Trail and the Captain Jacks multi-use trail system is along Gold Camp Road. This route has a number of other caches along the way and many view points. An alternate way is to park at the "Hub" (junction of Gold Camp Road, High Drive, and N. Cheyenne Canyon Rd.) and hike up High Drive to the Penrose Trail #665.

High Drive is no longer open to public, motorized vehicles.

P.S. The difficulty rating comes from the system. Some caches in this area that are rated around 2 to 2.5 are much easier than this one. In other words it might pay to think of this as a 3 or 3.5 and I might change it to 3 in the future.

Additional Waypoints
HDMEEP - High Drive Pass
N 38° 48.042 W 104° 53.965
Cap'n Jacks Trl at top of High Drive
J2MEEP - Top Sesame Canyon
N 38° 48.520 W 104° 53.304
Trail junction at top of Sesame Canyon
JRMEEP - Trail Junction at Ridge
N 38° 48.433 W 104° 53.247
Old Cap'n Jacks Trl 665 and Sesame Canyon Trl (not clear)
THMEEP - Gold Camp Road
N 38° 47.974 W 104° 53.030
Cap'n Jacks Gold Camp Rd. Trailhead & Parking
VPMEEP - View Point
N 38° 48.555 W 104° 53.367
View Point

10/20/2018 By OR85OR450
Really well done, and holding up excellently as Fourteenth birthday approaches!!

06/24/2018 By GoMRT
Walking the ridge line and grabbing geocaches along the way. This one is really creative and well done. Wish more were like it. Fav point! Tftc

03/14/2018 By gampa&gamma
We enjoyed the hike out to this one. Nice camouflage! Signed log. Thanks for the cache.

08/28/2017 By Hikermama3
Yeah I found it! Love it! Tftc

04/30/2017 By BobbyStu
Great views on the trail up to this one.

04/26/2017 By d4radio
Found

04/15/2017 By SnailMan1
Nice well camoed cache. TFTC.

01/18/2016 By Bokmeow
this was our favorite cache of the day up to the top of mays. we decided to take a little detour and grab this guy and have our lunch in the sunshine. this gets a favorite point for the fun camo and beautiful location we would never have seen except for geocaching. thanks so much!!

06/24/2015 By COpackrat
Came up Captain Jack's trail, and didn't see any closure signs. Thanks for the creative hide - it's a good one!

04/04/2015 By Hodge^ski
As mentioned in previous logs, there are closures. We walked up High Drive from Bear Canyon and the Sesame Canyon trail remains closed by the City. Also, High Drive itself is closed at the first hairpin turn. Since there was no getting to the cache from this part of High Drive today, we continued up along Bear Creek and did some other caches. We'll have to find another way up to this one :) We look forward to it.
Trail Closure at High Drive near the Palmer Trail

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10/05/2014 By sassydil
I came in from the north stopping at the first WP to Devil Dog then up the hill. After this cache I worked my way back to the north out Windy Ridge and back to the vehicle. A few small bits of camo have come off but it's in quite good shape for a cache that's almost 10 years old! Left a trackable.