This white plastic container is a log-only cache. BYOP. The cache should be accessible in most weather conditions, even with a few inches of snow on the ground.
About 30 yards west of this cache is a pile of tires that acts as a race course crash barrier. Law enforcement officers develop their driving skills here. I've seen them weaving their cars through cones -- slalom style. During the summer weekday evenings, sometimes you'll see a pack of colorful bicycle racers on the course, competing in a criterium race.
Notice the Piles of Tires? Here’s some Tire Trivia:
* A $1.50 waste tire recycling fee is charged for every car tire sold in Colorado.
* Over 33 million tires have been removed/reused/recycled in Colorado from 1996 through 2007.
* Recycled tires are used as fuel for some industrial plants (like the Holcim cement plant in Fremont County).
* Recycled tires are used in synthetic surfacing for playgrounds and running tracks.
* Water collecting in piles of waste tires is ideal mosquito breeding habitat.
* A tire contains the energy equivalent of about two gallons of oil.
* Occasionally landfills or tire-dumping grounds catch fire, and these tire fires are very difficult to extinguish.
* When US forces became bogged down in street-to-street fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia, local militia summoned help by burning tires--which sent up a smoke signal that pinpointed the areas where help was needed.
* Winnie Mandela popularized the tire necklace method of execution. A tire was pressed down over the victim's shoulders, gasoline poured into the tire's cavity, then set alight.
Access:
* From the east: There is a trail head at the end of Foothills Circle Drive, which can be approached via 32nd Ave, south on Eldridge at the turning circle, then west on Foothills Circle and south on Old Quarry Lane.
* From the south: The top of the mountain is also accessible via Quaker Street north of South Golden Road.
* From the south: A trail begins just east of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, but don't use the NREL visitor parking. Instead, go east a bit to find a parking spot.
* From the west: A trail rises from the intersection of 18th and Belvedere St. near old-town Golden. (This access point is farthest from the cache -- on the opposite side of the mesa.)