Fairview Mountain Cache

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N/S ? ??.??? W/E ??? ??.???  [] In Alberta, Canada

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A cache located in one of the nicest panoramas in the Rockies.

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Please note: There is an entrance fee for this park!

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Mount Fairview is a 2744m mountain situated beside Lake Louise. It was named by Walter D. Wilcox in 1894 for the more-than-fair view from the summit. On days when the weather cooperates, you can see Mt. Temple, Mt. Victoria, Mt. Aberdeen, Lake Louise (way down below), and up and down the Bow Valley. On the day I hid this cache, however, the summit was in a cloud so no panoramas from that day are available.

The cache is reached by taking the maintained trail from the Lake Louise parking lot to The Saddle, and then up a scree slope to the summit. It is a 5.2m hike to the summit, with 1000m of elevation gain. This is a very popular hike (16 people were on the mountain the snowy day I went up), and you should have no problem staying on the trail.

You may find these waypoints handy:

• N51 24.914 W116 12.907 (1750m): Parking
• N51 23.626 W116 12.952 (2339m): The Saddle (trail junction to Fairview Mountain)
• N51 23.966 W116 13.478 (2757m): The Summit
• N51 23.952 W116 13.506 (2751m): The Cache

The cache is a normal sized tupperware container, stuffed with some books, CDs, and some Finder's Cards (including a coveted FTF card). It is stuffed under a large quartzite rock, guarded by a rabbit. Bonus karma points if you post a picture of your party on the summit.

More information for Fairview Mountain can be found at these links:

• Peaks of the Canadian Rockies
• Canada's Mountains
• OneDayHikes.com

A cardio comparison with other geocaches in the area:

• Easier than Mount Temple and Mount Rundle.
• About as difficult as Black Rock Mountain.
• Tougher than Jumpin' GeoCache! and Hailstone Butte.

But, that's just my opinion.

The good photos are courtesy of j2d2.

Additional Hints ( Decrypt ) 

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Mt. Victoria from the summit

The Descent

Fairview

Rabbit

The Saddle

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Cache Logs

October 11 by balancingwalcheros (797 found) Our TB - Suntanned Daffy Duck has been in this cache for over a year , and really wants to see more of the world. Would anyone be kind enough to move him on, please? (Assuming he's still there?) Thank you!! [view this log]

September 19 by ajsotak (157 found) It was a three hour hike and every step seemed uphill. TFTC. TNLN. [view this log]

August 18 by grandfrunk (189 found) Great to find a cache up there - this was actually the very first cache I found "by accident", I just saw it when we came up to the top. Unfortunately I couldn't leave the TB i brought because the box was to small/to full. Thanks for the cache in this nice location :) Regards from Germany, Frank [view this log]

August 13 by gordoner (1969 found) Planned this one to be my 1400th find. Did the climb with a couple non-caching friends. Got to the summit with blue skies and snow. Very nice. We watched the clouds float by beneath us and one of my climbing buddies found the cache, just after we ate some lunch. Great way to spend a summer day. Even if it didn't feel like summer. TFTC!!!! [view this log]

August 10 by arnedw (21 found) Wow never hiked that high in my life.... Puh..but we did it!!! Great view from the top! TFTC [view this log]

Current time: 11/22/2009 6:02:59 AM
Last Updated: 10/11/2009 4:25:32 PM
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Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum