Mineral Clifftops Traditional Cache
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270° viewpoint just off historical Argenta mining trail at 9,250 ft, on top of the cliffs of Mineral Fork
On this hike, we've met Charles L. Keller, a Wasatch history guru and the informal minder of Argenta, its tales, trails, and mines. So credits for the history info go to him.
Argenta trail is one of the oldest still in use in the Wasatch. Barely in use, that is. The lower portion of the trail was built to supply lumber to a sawmill built on Big Cottonwood Creek in 1854. By 1870s, mines were springing up aroud Carbonate Pass, and the flats around the sawmill became the town of Argenta, and the seat of mines recorder. The miners extended the mule trail all the way to the pass area. All what is left now is this very underutilized trail, and Argenta avalanche chute short ways East from it.
Cross Big Cottonwood creek at the stream gauge ( N 40° 38.479 - W 111°40.855 ). Be forewarned that the trail is steep; it levels off on the meadow terraces beyond the cache.
The cache is in a round plastic container. It contained:
- shell turtle
- matryoshka doll
- lighter
- foreign coins
- Hessian Lion the travelbug
The cache area as seen from Mineral Fork #1 cache by DeViDe. This cache is at the top of the large cliff at the center of the image. Carbonate Pass (and Carbonate Cache area) is on the right skyline.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Va ybj ohfurf whfg orybj n tragyl fybcvat zrnqbj, uhaqerq sg A bs gur genvy
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