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Mt. Cone Traditional Geocache

Hidden : 12/3/2020
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
4.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


This cache is placed on Mt. Cone, a rarely visited peak near the heavily travelled Welch Dickey peaks.  The way I climbed it twice is to park in the Welch Dickey parking lot and take the mountain bike trail (signed as Brown Ash Swamp Bike Trial) past the four beaver ponds and into Dickey Notch.  The trail begins just 0.1 mi. from lot.  Go straight at the junciton of the very popular Welch-Dickey Loop trail.  Note the cellar hole to the left at this point.  Follow the trail until the Notch begins to widen.  Leave the trail and head generally west when you see that you have past the steep cliffs on Mt. Cone's eastern flank.  Make your best guess about when to head south to the summit.  You will need to find a gap in the cliffs.  Generally the farther west you go the ascent is less steep.  If you google Mt. Cone, you may find some discussion of other routes, but I have not tried them.  The cache is near the clearly visible hiking register at the exact summit in an orange container.  Sign that as a bonus and look nearby in another Hemlock for a black bison tube.  Then head east along the ridge to visit the large cairn (visible on Google Earth) and great views back at Welch Dickey, the Sandwich range, Bald Knob and way to the left Franconia Ridge.  From the parking lot it is about a 4 mile round trip.  It winter it took us about 8 hours and is much shorter in other times of the year.  Congratualations for FTF to frogforge.  It's not easy in winter.  A good start to 2021!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)