Additional Waypoints

07/15/2018 By ktTris
I was sorting some papers and came across e-mails from 2006 regarding this cache. I'm so happy to see it is still in play! Maybe 2018 will be my year to find it! I've lived in Arizona and now live in Oregon but I plan to visit Colorado this fall. Thanks for keeping it going!

07/01/2018 By Peachbob
Went out yesterday to find my 2000th cache and this was going to be the one, but didn't happen. I found out just how much I didn't know about GPSs and coordinates. Spent most of this afternoon trying to figure out what was going on in clue 4. Then after giving up and thinking about going to bed it hit me. So simple when you know what's going on. Thanks for this cache that has made me work my brain. Peach harvest has started and probably will not be back out till after harvest is over.
FUN CACHE!!!!!!

05/14/2017 By CacheKings007
Nice start and hopefully a very gratifying find. We made it to stage two and got hung up. Took the card and wrote down elements at stage two. Spent 20 minutes thinking but to no avail. Will come back after some research (and perhaps a hint) to make the find!

09/28/2016 By McMurdo1
The gnats are gone for the season and the cache is in good shape.
One find so far in 2016

08/08/2016 By BG2015
Ahhh. Sweet success one day later. I figured out the location of Stage 3 at home last night, went back out in the field, walked right to it and then had to take lunch as I pondered the meaning of it all. As with all stages on this one, lots of information but no direction of what to do with that info. Finally pieced the puzzle together in the field, made the appropriate calculations and off I went to final stage. Wow, quite the treacherous terrain here, but I was able to skate down and make the grab. Cache still in good shape. Took TB, as I know it has been sitting for a while, left an auto travel kit and a child's toy. The TB is just a tag, there is not actually a coin. I hope it didn't walk off with someone. Good repair gear in this cache. Really nice to see the longevity on this one and a CO who stays involved. Thanks for a great Multi (Puzzle.

08/07/2016 By BG2015
Found the first stage quite easily. Really cool cache and I loved what was inside. Makes it easy on us forgetful folks, or those that don't bring a camera, or those that don't want to write everything down. Passed by Stage 2 earlier and knew it was the location, but had to go to Stage 1 first. Sure enough, back to Stage 2. Ok, vg ybbxf yvxr n cvcr pnc gb zr gbb, nygubhtu gurer jnf abguvat va gurer naq vg jnf irel qrrc naq gbb guvefgl sbe zr. Ubcrshyyl, gurer jnfa'g fhccbfrq gb or nalguvat vafvqr gur cvcr pnc, nf vg jnf rzcgl. So, more figuring is necessary to find Stage 3. Luckily, I left some caches in the area unfound, so when I get back, it won't be a total wash.

09/16/2015 By Rojo464
Finally got this awesome multi done, TFTC

08/09/2015 By kekj
Grabbed our "Black Canyon of the Gunnison GeoCoin" out of this cache while we visited it's namesake over the weekend. Had planned to do that shortly after activating the coin and actually made a trip up to the park to do so but found all the roads closed due to snow so called it off. With the '15 Rd Trip in full swing it was time to get our Earthcaches so grabbed, visited, and now returning the coin to this FAV spot so someone else can eventually move it to a different part of the geoearth.

07/10/2015 By kekj
WOO HOO ! CACHE #1000 !!!! p.s. Max word log length reached, continued below,

Chosen especially for this milestone, we have worked long and hard to make this find hit the 1000 mark. At the time of our finding the first 3 stages on 6-4 we were a number of caches behind in our logs due to a lot of travel apart for graduations, etc. and I am winding down a major construction project in Delta with lots of long hours and pressures - logging took second chair except for FTFs, Events and a few special finds that needed logging immediately. Ultimately we were behind by 27 caches but were keeping track of where this cache would fall. Finally took the time (hours) to go back and research the GPS "Track logs" and make sure we had every cache logged and in the proper order and . . . . VIOLA . . . . . nailed this one on the head.

The Ms. has been back in town for several weeks and trying to find the moment to take her out to see the finial and make the "Official 1000th" log when . . . . . WOW!!! A bunch of new caches by blueskycindy show up in the area! We were STUNNED! Partially because we thought she might have made the find of this cache before we officially logged it but MUCH MORE so as we had a half dozen unpublished caches set in the area on the two previous trips out. A check of this cache and a download of the new caches showed there was NO conflict between hers and ours. Now we HAD TO GO, like NOW, so we can not only log this cache but get some FTFs at the same time! Took a couple days to find the time, biting my nails the whole while, and off we go. Got one FTF and DNF’d the other two of blueskycindy (in contact with her now trying to figure out what went wrong)

We left home GZ at nearly 7 p.m. and having spent more than the amount of time expected looking for the DNF'd caches, sun was down, TOTALLY below the horizon when we started for this finial cache. WOW as we arrived at GZ we hear a train whistle in the distance. By the time we got the cache log signed the train was coming both IN & OUT of the tunnel at the same time - both ends – where’s the middle? (I was lucky enough that same thing happened LAST time I was out! COOL SIGHT!) Then what? We heard a whistle from the OPPOSITE direction! Managed to get a real cool picture of two trains close to “passing in the night” - see gallery and look for reflection of light off of hillside of train going away. As stated in our previous "NOTE" - this is a WAY COOL CACHE! and gets a FAV from us - would easily give one for each of the stages and have them to give - but the web won't let us.

2 Trains - passing in the night

About 8:45 p.m. looking SE along Gunnison. Full coal train (headlight visible) stopped on siding near Dominguez Canyon/Bridgeport Rd waiting for empty train to pass (headlight visible as reflection on canyon wall - low left)

Same view taken at time first found on 6-4. And YES, there is another train sitting on the siding at Bridgeport. Did not notice that at time of photo, just now realized it!

07/10/2015 By kekj
WHY is this cache so special? and WHY did we choose it for our 1000th? Well:

It takes a lot of planning an preparation just to GET HERE - we have been looking at it for months and at some point I traced out all the possible approaches on Google maps, printing it out in small scale, then various quadrants in larger, and even LARGER scale, then highlighting the roads, twists and turns so we could find not only the first cache, but any subsequent cache without hitting dead ends, wrong turns, etc. WE LIKE CHALLENGES – especially 4x4 and navigational ones.

We have made it a bit of a specialty to go for long unfound caches, ones that you may put a lot of effort into without being sure it is actually still there. We keep a special file of those that have not been found for 2 yrs. or more. Makes us feel like a part of an elite group - not just the run of the mill P&G crowd. We have been more than rewarded for the effort - Leon Peak, Lost my Cache, etc.

I used to teach flying/navigation professionally as well as back-country backpacking & teaching of orienteering and wilderness survival skills to youth groups. Putting some of those skills to the test personally is a real and fulfilling challenge - thus it is that Lost my Cache (GCQ186 - on Grand Mesa) is one of my all time favorites. This cache joins in as one of our all time top 5 FAVs!

We love multi caches - owning some 18 - and are in the process of putting together a multi that has 5 logable “found it” stages with an additional 3 intermediate stages as well as one mapping puzzler in the middle of all that! (9 points in all, each getting progressively harder) The basic idea for the mapping puzzler came from Lost my cache but was firmed up in detail from THIS cache. Watch for it - coming soon out on 25 Mesa Rd. kekj's "RUBY Multi series" With all the work it takes to bring up a truly good multi, (or puzzler) we are saddened at how few geocachers will put out the extra effort to find a multi - knowing that they will get only one “find” – its to much “all about numbers”.

At the time we came out for the first stage, we had no idea what kind of puzzler to expect and just planned to "find it", "log it", "count it", "done with it", “another off the list” - hoping we would enjoy it and count it towards our list of "more than 2 years unfound" Once we actually found the first three stages and couldn't finish it that night, knowing that the Ms. was flying out the following day (for 3 wks) is when we began to strategize as to how we would actually be able to count this as our 1000th cache. We had already been looking and asking around for a good one for 1k and had not yet found one that fit the bill. This one did. p.s. If you look at our FTF date of 7-15 on the new caches by blueskycindy, we do admit to a "virtual" shift of 5 days prior to the date the Ms. actually found and signed the cache log to make it our 1k. Having previously “Noted” it as found on 6-4 – we felt we could take that liberty.